[ox-en] [Fwd: [Fsfe-ie] Latest on March 16th event: FOSS Means Business]
- From: Adam Moran <adam diamat.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:18:09 +0000
Hi,
Maybe one for those Oekonuxers with itchy feet ...
( More info: March 16th event with Stallman and Perens in Belfast
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2006-February/002432.html )
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Subject: [Fsfe-ie] Latest on March 16th event: FOSS Means Business
Date: 14 Feb 2006 15:55:52 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
From: Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran fsfe.org>
To: fsfe-ie fsfeurope.org
1. What is set
2. What's not finished
3. What we need people to do
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1. What is set:
* The name (new) is "FOSS Means Business"
* The keynote speakers are Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens
* A substantial part of Stallman's presentation will be about GPLv3
* The date is March 16th, and it's whole-day event, probably 10am to
5:30pm
* The venue is Spires, Belfast
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2. What's not finished:
* setting the timetable for the day - this is only half set
* confirming some speakers
* raising funds for improving the event's appearance (we have 2000
sterling, which covers the venue and loads of tea and coffee and
biscuits, but we are still waiting on funding for a meal and welcome
packs)
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3. What we need people to do
Publicise this. Tell everyone to book the day out of the office, and to
get their boss to do the same.
* We need to tell mailing lists (Linux, free software, Unix, system
administrators, creative commons, computer societies, computer-user
lists, college societies, anything lists like that)
* blogs: blog about this and get others to do so too.
* Post to forums: I don't participate in many forums, so I don't know
much about this, but there must be people here that do know
* Send emails to news sites, and other sites, that have Events pages.
Many sites like this exist. I've so far gotten this mentioned on
http://www.ukuug.org/diary/ and on http://enn.ie/events.html
* If you have business contact lists, please inform them informally if
that is acceptable, or do so formally when we have a formal
announcement ready
* If you have press contacts, there will be a press release made about
this, hopefully on Friday, so please be ready to forward that or tell
someone (like myself) the details for contacting that journalist /
press person
* contribute to the wiki:
http://belfoss.org
(That is the official event wiki, for the public, so remember that the
IT managers that we are trying to impress will be looking there.)
* reply to this mail and tell me what I've forgotten
When I put "foss means business" into google (including quotes), I get
zero hits right now, so we can gauge how effective our web presence is
spreading by checking that each day. Every new hit will be because of us.
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