Learner's Meeting

[Bruce]

Hello all,

there is a Learners meeting tomorrow night, Monday the 11th at Jim's
at 7.00
we are getting ready for Software Freedom Day, http://softwarefreedomday.org/

so far the schedule looks like this:

Next Monday August 18 Pia Waugh comes and talks at Uni 5.30 "Women in
Computing" and 7.30 "SFD and Open Source". Please promote this to any
high schoolers who may be interested. I'm sure we can arrange
transport. Encourage parents and teachers along too. Good sources of
information are found here:
Getting girls into IT: http://pipka.org/blog/2007/10/09/getting-girls-and-gen-y-into-it/
Pia's bio: http://pipka.org/standard-bio/
Tech girls are chic, not just geek: http://www.techgirlsarechic.org/

August 31 Sunday - Toronto Software Give-away Toronto SDA church hall
- that's us - see the "software give-away post on the Westlakes
Learners group http://groups.google.com/group/westlakes-linux-learners

September 14 Sunday - Newcastle Computer Markets - giving away
software, lots of fun

September 20 Saturday - is Software Freedom Day - the LOGIN team are
finding halls and giving talks and giving away more CDs.

The CDs we are giving away this year are

OpenDisc or OpenEducationDisc (FOSS for Windows)
http://www.theopendisc.com/

And Ubuntu again

on the 31st we will also do the latest Mint and Vector

Also look in Lakes Mail this week too, I'm going to try and get an
article in.

See you at Jim's

Bruce