Wow sounds great, I wonder if got any pictures of the event. It might be nice to have at least a few pictures.
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Christian Einfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 11 April 2005 20:17, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > Hi > > > > this is a good opportunity to market OOo to non-profits which are > > showing up to look at FLOSS solutions. I am going to be going to > > this even tomorrow in Oakland, CA, USA. > > > > http://bayarea.penguinday.org/ > > So I did go to this event, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll be > writing an article for MadPenguin.org about the experience. > > For the purposes of this list, I wanted to thank John Lorance of > Compumentor for doing a great "speed geek" demo of OOo for the 50 > or so people who were present at the event. Speed geeking is the > practice of dividing a larger group up into a series of small > groups, who then rotate from booth to booth for a brief and intense > intro into the software. John Lorance handled the OOo table. He > did a great job of showcasing OOo 2.0. I would strongly recommend > that our marketing leads consider partnering with Aspiration for > the purpose of promoting these events. > > www.aspirationtech.org > > OOo is really best when presented in a mix of other FOSS apps to > non-profits. This event was a great step toward getting OOo in > front of a natural group of users. > > Open source and non profits are a natural mix, and so Dan Gun (aka > Gunner) and Kartin Verclas have done a brilliant job of bringing > non-profits together with FOSS advocates. Some of the software > shown there was simply brilliant as well. > > This event was also a personal landmark for me because I got to meet > Oso Martin (accent over the i not possible in kmail), who is the > founder of Freegeek.org. I love free geek because it combines the > education of software libre with recycling old computers and > repurposing old computers. Free Geek basically installs debian and > OOo on computers and gives them away. How good is that? > > Christian Einfeldt > 415-351-1300 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
