[GNUz] [Linux-users] Software Freedom Day invite 17 Sept

[Adrian Mageanu]

Rik, well done!

I only spent 1h there and was worth it. I had the opportunity to have
some interesting conversations with Ryan and Dave about development
frameworks and FOSS in general, and I also learnt a couple of new
things.

For example from Dave I found about puppet ( http://puppetlabs.com/ )
and what it can do - too bad it doesn't have a graphical or web
interface...:) - and from John about Terminator - very helpful to bring
some order on my desktop.

All in all, it felt almost like the old days when CLUG was getting
together in St. Albans and ideas and knowledge were exchanged at the
maximum rate you could absorb it. What was missing was the numbers.

Rik, thanks for making this possible. Keep it up.

Cheers,
Adrian


On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:03 +1200, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Dear Canterbury Linux users,
> 
> The difficulties of raising public / civic awareness about Linux, BSD 
> and GNU etc have been compounded by our local earthquakes. But you will 
> have seen from the media work yesterday that Software Freedom Day is 
> going ahead, as usual, on 17 Sept in South Library from 10am. Please 
> feel welcome to participate, in whatever way and bringing whatever 
> free/open software you like to show and share.
> 
> An "Installfest" has been mentioned but not pushed, because demand for
> this is usually limited. But we never can tell, as the Christchurch City
> Council "Be there" events site and facilities staff do support our work
> with them. That's great, so let's make the most of this annual 
> opportunity to get together for larger FOSS Fun and outreach.
> 
> Demonstration boxes are very welcome. We have a whole empty room for
> these, with probable networking capacity - as well as what links the
> tuition lab. Anyone can talk on anything they want - we will organise
> teaching resource per supply and demand. Usually there are enough of us 
> to match the flow of questions and install help brought to us. 
> Videos/DVDs can be shown.
> 
> Thank you for any level of support that you can bring to Software 
> Freedom Day. There are spare posters, balloons and gift CDs. All 
> welcome. Hoping to see you tomorrow.
> 
> http://bethere.co.nz/community/2011/2809-software-freedom-day-09
> 
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/NewZealand/Christchurch/SouthLibrary
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Rik
> 
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