[vox] [fwd] [svlug] Event: Book donation party for LUG of Iraq

[Dave Margolis]

Bill or anyone,

I have a whole box of books that I know would be good.  However, I know 
I won't make it to this event.  Is anybody going from Lugod that I could 
give my books to?

Thanks,
Dave

Bill Kendrick wrote:

>Ooh!  Pizza?  Movie?  Get rid of some books, for a good cause
>(e.g., LUG in Iraq, who really needs books, apparently! :^) )
>
>This will be two weeks from tomorrow (Friday, March 26th) in Mountain View.
>Who wants to go!?
>
>-bill!
>
>----- Forwarded message from Rich Bodo <rsb@ostel.com> -----
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>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:19:55 -0800 (PST)
>From: Rich Bodo <rsb@ostel.com>
>Subject: [svlug] Event: Book donation party for LUG of Iraq
>To: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group <svlug@lists.svlug.org>
>
>
>A quick summary:
>
>We will be throwing a party in Mountain View, CA on the 26th of this
>month.  All of you are invited.  Bring a book that you think might
>help someone in Iraq to use FOSS to build technology infrastructure.
>Pizza and drinks arrive at 7PM.  Midnight movie.  Hope to see you
>there.
>
>-Rich
>
>The press release:
>
>BookCrossing.com, Freedom Technology Center to Host "Books for Iraq"
>Event
> 
>Mountain View, California
>
>BookCrossing.com and the Freedom Technology Center are teaming up to
>help jump-start Iraq's recovery with computer software and hardware
>book donations.  Linux and open-source software enthusiasts will meet
>at Mountain View's Freedom Technology Center all day Friday, March 26
>to pack and ship badly-needed computer books to the new Linux Users
>Group (LUG) of Iraq. The event is sponsored by BookCrossing.com, a
>leading Internet community for book readers and book releasers.
>
>"We need all kinds of computer books," said Ashraf T. Hasson,
>co-founder of the new Linux Users Group of Iraq.  The group is
>establishing a Linux Center in Baghdad to conduct training in all
>levels of Linux usage, administration and development. Today in
>Baghdad, up-to-date PC hardware and all software are readily
>available, but computer books are not.  Iraq's growing population of
>Linux users need all kinds of computer books, not just Linux-specific
>ones.
>
>The Freedom Technology Center and BookCrossing.com will handle the
>packing and shipping, and invite supporters to simply bring a favorite
>technical book. Donors can pre-register their book at
>BookCrossing.com's website, and track the book's journey as it travels
>among the emerging high-tech circles in Iraq.
>
>Books will be accepted from 9am to midnight. From 7pm to midnight, the
>Freedom Technology Center will serve pizza and provide demonstrations of
>its new Linux-based information technology training lab.
> 
>About the Freedom Technology Center
>
>The Freedom Technology Center is a new non-profit IT training facility
>located in downtown Mountain View, California. Upcoming classes include
>an enterprise Samba class to be taught by Samba developer John H.
>Terpstra and a series of Linux administration classes to be taught by
>noted author and consultant Jim Dennis.
>
>About BookCrossing.com
>
>BookCrossing is the act of releasing books "into the wild" and then
>following their journeys and the lives they touch. BookCrossing.com is
>the website that makes it all possible. The site has more than 200,000
>registered users and tracks more than 880,000 books. Join Today!
>
>For updates and directions, please see
>http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/events/
>
>For more information: Don Marti, Freedom Technology Center:
>dmarti@zgp.org or 510-814-0932.
>
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