[Fsfe-uk] Latest on March 16th Belfast event: FOSS Means Business

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

1. What is set
2. What's not finished
3. What we need people to do
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1. What is set:

* The name (new) is "FOSS Means Business"

* The keynote speakers are Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens
  (and we're waiting for confirmation from a Google speaker)

* A substantial part of Stallman's presentation will be about GPLv3

* The date is March 16th, and it's whole-day event, probably 10am to 5:30pm

* The venue is Spires, Belfast
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2. What's not finished:

* setting the timetable for the day - this is only half set

* confirming some speakers
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3. What we need people to do

Publicise this.  Tell everyone to book the day out of the office, and to get
their boss to do the same.

* We need to tell mailing lists (Linux, free software, Unix, system
  administrators, creative commons, computer societies, computer-user lists,
  college societies, anything lists like that)

* blogs: blog about this and get others to do so too.

* Post to forums: I don't participate in many forums, so I don't know much
  about this, but there must be people here that do know

* Send emails to news sites, and other sites, that have Events pages.  Many
  sites like this exist.  I've so far gotten this mentioned on:
  http://www.ukuug.org/diary/ and on http://enn.ie/events.html 

* If you have business contact lists, please inform them informally if that
  is acceptable, or do so formally when we have a formal announcement ready

* If you have press contacts, there will be a press release made about this,
  hopefully on Friday, so please be ready to forward that or tell someone
  (like myself) the details for contacting that journalist / press person

* contribute to the wiki:
  http://belfoss.org
  (That is the official event wiki, for the public, so remember that the IT
  managers that we are trying to impress will be looking there.)

* reply to this mail and tell me what I've forgotten

When I put "foss means business" into google (including quotes), I get zero
hits right now, so we can gauge how effective our web presence is spreading
by checking that each day.  Every new hit will be because of us.


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