Ian Lynch wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 21:59 +0100, Andy Loughran wrote:
+1
I do think that Ian would be the man for the job. The company I work
for (www.axiomtech.co.uk) also do talks of this type. I've forwarded
the message to our company's mailing list. We've worked with Ian
before, and there are some mutual connections - so hopefully we can come
up with a decent solution.
I am happy to do this, just depends on the exact date in February.
Wolverhampton is only 30 minutes from here.
Hi all,
Just FYI really.
We have been invited to another, related/conflicting, event being
organised by the region's Business Link to be run (probably in March).
My business (The Open Learning Centre) is in the South East, but one of
our customers is in Bromsgrove so it sort of makes sense for us. We'll
probably be going. Anyway, you might like to get in contact with the
organiser to see if you could either combine, cross-promote or at least
"not clash" with each other perhaps?
Here's the "meat" of the invitation of we received via the MD of Mercian
Labels Ltd. (For obvious reasons, I've edited the main contact email
address).
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Given the current challenging economic climate, Business Link West
Midlands is developing a program of activities to help SMEs, one of
which I have become involved in is a new IT for business show (awaiting
final confirmation of funding), supporting a new funding stream for
small consultancy projects to help business review their IT
requirements. As a business owner who has already seen the benefits of
migrating to open source, I am keen to see some commercial open source
companies take up this opportunity to showcase open source.
The show is currently being planned by Steve Smith ( SteveSmith [at]
businesslinkwm [dot] co [dot] uk ), sector manager for technology for a
Birmingham venue in March 2009. Beyond this I have no other details.
Could I invite you to contact Steve direct (he is expecting referrals
from me) to start planning your participation in this event? The likes
of BT and Microsoft are already committed, and I think it would be a
great shame not to show the other side of IT, and fly the flag for open
source. I am happy to coordinate a joint stand or similar if you wish
and maybe a speaking slot if they are available, I just know how much
other businesses could benefit from open source if only people knew
about it and the benefits it could offer.
Please feel free to forward this offer to others in the FOSS community,
I don't have an extensive list of contacts in this region, but I am
firmly of the opinion that this is an excellent business development
opportunity for local open source companies.
Regards
Adrian
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Alan Lord
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