[GNUz] Workshop Weds 7.30pm

[Rik Tindall]

Hi Don,

Thank you. This all sounds great..

On 2013-09-12 11:30, Don Robertson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Good meeting last night. Puts me in mind of Henry V:
>
> And gentlemen in England now a-bed
> Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
> And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
> That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
>
> although I suppose we could loose the gender references and change
> the last line to 'That made presentations with us upon Software
> Freedom Day.'
>
> Anyway - I can be there the whole day.
>
> Getting started on a poster - I'll post a link. Some things I thought
> we could include:
>
> Foss - what is it good for?
>    - Liberty, Freedom and the pursuit of happines ...
> Foss for Entertainment
>    - MythTV, VLC, Clemintine - I don't play games ..
> Foss for Education
>    - Edubuntu, Moodle, Schooltool, Koha,
> Foss for NGO's and Community
>     - elgg, civicrm, ...
> Foss for Business
>     - Feng Office, Zurmo, SugarCRM, GnuCash, ...
> Foss for Publishing
>     - Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp, ...
> Foss for Video
>     - OpenShot, KDEenlive, slideshow maker whose name escapes me, DVD
> Author whose name escapes me :-) ...
> Software Freedom Day 2014 - what's the point?
>    - should we be 'Data Freedom Day', 'Internet Freedom Day', ...
>
> The 'Foss for ...' would just be a quick run through of some
> software. Also - my machine is not really up to doing anything much
> with Video. Just some short clips to show OpenShot, making a slide
> show, making a DVD - but it take my machine a long time to render
> these things.
>
> If anyone has any other ideas, let me know. Also, while I can give a
> quick run-through of this stuff, I will bow to the expertise of
> anybody on any of these :-)
>
> I'll try to get a draft poster done today. Final version tomorrow, so
> people can print out and post places (libraries, supermarkets ... )
> over the weekend.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> don

..If I had time to add anything I would do so. Great job!

Cheers, Rik