[Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: [LINUX-USERS] Oekonux Conference at Manchester (Help needed)

[Lucy]

This is the conference that was briefly mentioned at the start of
Manchester Free Software's Drupal talk on Tuesday.

Having looked at the list of speakers (MFS regulars may recognise some
names) I'm really excited, it looks like it will be great event.

If you think you may be able to provide help, no matter how small,
please contact Yuwei.

Lucy


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yuwei Lin <address@hidden>
Date: 2009/2/18
Subject: [LINUX-USERS] Oekonux Conference at Manchester (Help needed)
To: address@hidden


Hello All,

I am helping organising a free software conference, named 'the Oekonux
Conference', on free software and relevant social, economic and political
issues. The conference is going to take place on 27-29 March 2009 at
Manchester. It is free to attend and everyone is welcome
<http://www.oekonux-conference.org/invitation/invitation.html>.

Apart from announcing the conference here, I am hoping to get some
volunteers to help at the conference, and more importantly, to host our
speakers at your homes.

The thing is, we failed to secure some major funding and the conference is
now short of money. Originally we wanted to cover all speakers' travel and
accommodation expenses, but now this becomes impossible. Since the Oekonux
is a free software community-driven project, we are thinking of using the
most fundamental free software spirit - the community - to solve this
burning problem.

We are hoping that Mancunians/people living at Greater Manchester can host
some speakers, providing overnight accommodation for them during their stay
at Manchester. These speakers travel from Europe and North America, and
they would appreciate staying and talking with the locals. A list of the
speakers is available at
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/program/speakers.en.html

If you are interested in hosting the Oekonux conference speakers, or
helping at the conference on 27-29 March, please email me off the list. For
more information, please visit
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/team/index.html

Thank you!

Best wishes,
Yuwei

--
Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org
http://www.ylin.org

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