[Melbourne-pm] Software Freedom Day: Free as in lunch with open sauce

[lev at levlafayette.com]

Software Freedom Day, Saturday September 17. 2011

The Hub, 80 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands.

12 noon: Free as in lunch with open sauce

Come join us for a BBQ (meat and vegetarian sausages, onion, sauce and
bread provided - byo drinks and salad) to celebrate Software Freedom Day.

1.30 Keynote - Ben Sturmfels, Why Free Software Matters

2.30 Workshops - Planning for Freedom in the Coming Year
a. Tony Forster, International Development with Free Software.
b. Alex Garber, Introducing Newcomers to Free Software
c. Alex Fraser, Code Sharing: A Programmer's Perspective
d. Daniel Jitnah, Free Software and Accessibility
e. Kathy Reid, Building Free and Open Source Communities
f. Lev Lafayette, Teaching Free and Open Source Computing


Drupal Melbourne will be running a stall and opportunity to discuss using
that free and open source content-management framework. Plus we'll have a
range of Linux distributions and various free software available to
interested parties.