Hello world,
First of all, The SFK12 conference schedule is now online :
http://lanyrd.com/2012/sfk12/ if you have twitter, please sign up if
you are attending, please share it and make some noise!
If you ever wanted to help out with flossk and did not know what to
do, now is your chance, you can help promote us online on facebook,
twitter, google+ etc.
It is important that we contact to schools in kosovo, so you will want
to please post about the event in the facebook groups/pages of the
various schools that will help out.
This is important for our new event designed for new people : We are
going to have a digital bootcamp at Innovations Lab Kosovo from Sept
4-6 from 16:00 to 19:00, anyone who has no experience welcome. We will
give you training in Linux, Open Source tools for graphic design,
writing wikipedia articles, we will also be helping people with the
flooding in africa by editing openstreetmap!
http://www.flossk.org/en/events/linux-and-open-source-digital-boot-camp-innovations-labs-kosovo
there are a limited number of computers available so if you dont have
a laptop, register now, first come, first serve.
So if you know any computer wiz kids, please tell them to come!
For the office, we need patchcables and power cables for the flossk
lab computers, please bring them asap to the ICK office,
also if you have any old computers, laptops, ram, disk , printers,
paper, toner, or food, drinks Etc, just bring them! we need everything
we can get!
We are at the office all day tomorrow, so come any time someone will be here :
http://www.flossk.org/en/events/flossk-incubation-ick-innovation-center-kosovo
Also we will have a new concept, workshops, so the day before the
conference Sept 7 and the day after Sept 10 we will have a barcamp
type experience at the innvations labs, all the speakers who are there
for more time are welcome and invited to speak at the innovations lab,
the environment will be more personal, and we can have a nice relaxed
learning days together with less time pressure.
We are going sat morning to Skopje just for the day to visit the KIKA,
everyone is invited, we take the bus at 7:30 am dont miss it : cost
will be less than 10 euros per person, if you need sponsorship please
let me know in private.
http://www.flossk.org/en/events/flossk-meeting-skopjekika-hacklab
We have now many new posters to choose from, please sign up on the
flossk.org with a new user, you will need to be confirmed as not being
a bot and then you can vote, we support facebook connect as well :
http://www.flossk.org/en/user/register you can vote here :
http://www.flossk.org/en/poll/what-your-favorite-poster-sfk12
Also we have now a todo list for the conference, so if you want to
help and dont know what, request access to it, here :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FYU1hkf_dKC7Dp1tusISxyhXmM04IrfZebptmITAsC4/edit#
if you need a place to sleep for the conference, sign up on
couchsurfing.org, we are not going to sponsor anyone who does not try
to get a couch first, so do that and if it does not work then we can
talk.
Anyone who is good at drupal is needed for helping us setup a nice
calender and event registration system, we want to import the lanyrd
events into our site and make it available for rating and
registration.
thanks!
mike
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James Michael DuPont
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