[FM Discuss] FLOSS Manuals Summit

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> We have been invited to attend a pretty wonderful event in Amsterdam :
> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/
>
> they have invited between 5-15 FM-ers to attend an event to consolidate
> the network. I have to get all the information in by Friday, however I
> am thinking we could break it down into these groups:
> Admin
> Coding
> Translation
> PR

How about Acquisitions?

> I have to put the list together ASAP. The org has stated they can pay
> for travel and accomodation however I am not sure of what their budget
> is etc.
>
> The event is in the first week of March (2-8), 2009. Can all those that
> are interested in attending please let me know and send a short one
> paragraph description of you ( a 'bio'), and what part of the 4 areas
> you would like to contribute to. I need this info for the proposal.

As a Generalist, I have something to contribute on any of these
topics. Tell me where I will be most useful.

Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Founder, Earth Treasury, an NGO to link schools around the world for
education and business.

Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs as a volunteer coordinator,
localization administrator (Khmer and Kreyòl), and general knoker (an
especially Yiddish know-all, the kind who did math homework in pen),
based on

    * his training as a mathematician, classroom teacher, amateur
musician and linguist, philosopher, and Buddhist priest
    * plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in
high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode
and Free Software.

> We can really use this to plan the future of FM...its an exciting
> prospect and I'm quite amazed and flattered we have been invited. Please
> send info asap so we can take advantage of this.
>
> Aco is also on the hunt for programmers to come. Aco will write more
> about this...So far the programming falls on Acos shoulders but we have
> a bigger project coming up that we need help on. I'll leave it to Aco to
> explain...
>
> :)
>
> ada,
>
>
> --
> Adam Hyde
> Founder FLOSS Manuals
> http://www.flossmanuals.net
>
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