[vox] [fwd] penguin day in san francisco, april 25

[Bill Kendrick]

Seen on SF-LUG:

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:54:11 -0700
From: jim
Subject: [sf-lug] penguin day in san francisco, april 25

as seen on the linuxchix mailing list... 

> Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009,
> right before the NTC. We'd love to see you there!
>
> Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice
activists
> learn about free and open source software that can support their work
> and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing,
> fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.
>
> Full details are at www.penguinday.org. Thanks to the generosity of
> Google, we're delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!
>
> The latest agenda can be found at
>
> http://pd.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Penguin_Day_Agenda
>
> and we encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!
>
> Sessions will include:
>
> * Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
> * Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
> * Fundraising with all free software
> * Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices
> * Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools
> * Introduction to Linux
> * Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
> * Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
> * Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal
> * Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics
> * CiviCRM vs Sales force . com: What Are the Differences?
> * Increasing Access with Community Broadband in SF
> * Learnings from Google Summers of Code
> * Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project
> * Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
> * Helping Techies and Non-Techies Communicate and Cooperate
> * Creative Commons And Open Content
> * Free and Open Source Firewalls
>
> Penguin Day San Francisco is happening at the Odd Fellows Hall at 7th
> and Market Street, in the heart of downtown.
>
> We invite you to register now at www.penguinday.org. It's going to be
a
> great day!
>
> Penguin Day SF is organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, CiviCRM, and
> Chicago Technology Cooperative, and generously sponsored by Google.
>
> We look forward to seeing you there, and please feel free to post and
> forward this announcement far and wide :^)
>
> thanks & peace,
> gunner, Michelle, Ryan, Dave and Jim
> Penguin Day Organizing Committee

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