[pgh-pm] Planning Open Source conferance for Governments and Non-Profits

[Sean McCune]

I would be interested in helping out with that.  In my experience, the reliability/security and sometimes philosophical angle gets more traction than the cost angle with charities and non-profits.  They are usually able to get deep discounts on MS Office, operating systems, and back office apps, making the cost issue nearly moot for them.

-- 
Sean McCune
sean at redhandsoftware.com
Red Hand Software, Inc.
 

Robert Blackwell wrote:
> Perl Mongers,
> 
> I have been working with the non profit groups ( I am President of one) and governments a lot
> lately.  Sadly I am not finding much open source.  Even worse people do not know what it is or how
> much it could help.
> 
> So I am looking for people to help put on a YAPC style conference focused on OSS and
> Non-Profit/Governments.  If anyone has any interest please let me know.
> 
> I few ideas:
> 
> Front Office:
> 
> Using the voter data with R to analyze voter patterns.
> Writing reports with http://datavision.sourceforge.net/
> Make your data come to life! with http://www.opendx.org/.
> When is the bus coming?
> 
> Back office:
> 
> How to set up  Asterisk PBX and why would I want to.
> Using Apache to host your community website.
> Storing your data in an open source database.
> CMS options.
> 
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