Flossk.org is now open for new user registration, new "flosskies" needed

[Mike Dupont]

Hello,
we have updated flossk.org to allow for new users to register. I would like to invite you all to sign up. Right now there are not many features for users, but we will be granting limited editor rights, we need help on updating www.flossk.org for the conference on sept 8 (we have to add in all the details for the conference), and you are all invited to help. Also we need to make a map for the conference. We have other tasks and projects as well. So please sign up, all the people who already filled out the "join" form, we will be contacting you individually, but we want to make a team to work on the conference. We are looking for people to help with internet marketing (sharing and mailing and posting) of the conference, people to help distribute flyers and posters, people to help at the conference, people who can drive and pickup international guests at the airport, also we are always looking for coders, designers, writers, translators and graphic artists. Also at the day of the conference we will need basic help like security, help carrying things and organizing the conference. People who are interested in helping kosovo. 

You will get not only a teeshirt, but also make international friends, have new contacts for your future and I will write you a personal recommendation for your work. 

We have also had food and parties for flossk helpers in the past and I hope to continue this tradition.

You can join the team and be on this years group photo :


I will be having an open office/hacklab in prizren for the next days at the www.shzap.org in Prizren, it is downtown and we can work there for the mean time. Anyone who wants to help can come over and join us. Read about the office here http://kosovobiz.blogspot.com/2011/11/opening-of-mittelstandsburos-balkan-in.html 

Also I am going to be doing technical trainings on programming and linux administration for people who help out, we are looking for places to hold them, at the innovation labs http://kosovoinnovations.org/, or at Stikk-ks www.stikk-ks.org/ offices or even at the university of prizren. Please contact me about that and we will go into detail.

I want to say thank you to Altin and Gent who have helped in the conferences and flossk in the past years, they are both now in USA for one year and I wish them all the best. Of course we want to thank all the people who have helped in the past as well, there are many more then those two! This year we are going to have to find new "flosskies" who will grow into the role, so if you are ready to join, go to http://www.flossk.org/en/user/register and sign up!

I look forward to working on the conference with you, and we have many projects to work on. Flosskies who have helped out, have helped their country and themselves, and they have all been able to find work and are doing well, you can be part of this success story!

thanks,

mike

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James Michael DuPont
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