1. What is set 2. What's not finished 3. What we need people to do =====================================
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 ===================================== 2. What's not finished: * setting the timetable for the day - this is only half set * confirming some speakers ===================================== 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. -- Ciarán O'Riordan, _________| Support free software: join FSFE's Fellowship http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ | & encourage others to do so: http://fsfe.org ___________________________| http://ciaran.compsoc.com/fsfe-fellowship.html _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
