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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Miller Jr. <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Hi An:

Lets us schedule to have Software Freedom Day and Barcamp Saigon 2 on the
same day, Sept. 19, 2009.  We could host it at Quang Truong Software City.

In short, you could combine both of these events and devote one room just
for Software Freedom Day.  Funding wise, QTSC may be a good choice to raise
donations.  So far, nobody has taken an active role in starting the second
Barcamp Saigon.

What do you guys think?  I will talk to Tony more about this tomorrow.

Kevin


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anh Hung Nguyen <[email protected]>

Hi Kevin,

The combination of SFD and Barcamp Saigon 2 makes a lot of sense. How
about starting a meeting for the organizers next week? I will send an
email to BarcampSaigon2 now :-)

Cheers,


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Miller Jr. <[email protected]>

Let me speak with Tony first since if it goes that way, a lot will be
on his shoulders.  I will not be able to help much this year since I
have to focus on my company.  QTSC is a good location though if
needed, RMIT is open.

An was good at organizing SaigonLUG so he should be one of the key
organizers.  Focus on the tech people this time, many people left
Barcamp Saigon early last time since they felt it did not focus much
on technology.  Freedom Software Day is just one way to keep the the
techies and web enthusiasts together. It can also help FSD get some
funding as well with Barcamp Saigon.

Ok, off for the day.

Kevin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: An Nguyen <[email protected]>


I vote against the combination due to many reasons below:

0. Software Freedom Day is an annual worldwide celebration of FLOSS

1. SFD and Barcamp are independent events, sharing no common purposes

2. I'm pretty sure that if SFD is combined with BarCamp, the FOSS
Community in Vietnam may boycott the Saigon SFD 2009 as well as
SaigonLUG. I know this community quite well, so I think that bad
situation may happen. About 1 year ago, there was an open source group
in Thu Duc Dist. celebrating an "Open Source Advocacy" event in the
National University's Hall. They used the Windows Laptop with Ubuntu
LiveCD and they focused on selling their netbooks instead of advocate
for FLOSS. After that celebration, that group had to suffer a lot of
criticism from the community. They had been boycotted and "finished"
by the community. I don't want to make the same mistake.

Regards


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kỳ Anh, Huỳnh <[email protected]>

We may refer to FLOSS and SFD as a small topic at BarCamp. This may be
a good choice as BarCamp has a large amount of audiences and (in my
opinion) BarCamp always welcomes IT ideas.

SFD requires your greater effort. If An could tell what he wants/does
in SFD we make up our mind easily.

BTW I'd like to see our conversations in a mailing list.

Regards,


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Miller Jr. <[email protected]>

HI An:

I thought about this a little bit.  First of all, Software Freedom Day
is a day to PROMOTE open source software, not a day for Linux geeks to
get together.  Please remember that.  That is a day that the FOSS
community can come and promote open source.  Barcamp is a perfect
choice for it.

For me, using Ubuntu LiveCDs to try to sell netbooks is quite
ingenious.  At least they found a way to monetize Linux, they should
be applauded, not criticized.  You never know, maybe ONE person might
actually keep Linux by buying their netbooks.  That one person may
same day become CEO of a major company in the future.  Keep that
perspective.

Due to An's concerns, combining Barcamp Saigon 2 and SFD will not be a
good idea if the open source community will boycott.  Maybe instead An
can talk to Tony and GHP and have the event there at Tony's office.
Just an idea.

For Barcamp Saigon 2, you guys should just organize it yourself.  If
you do not mind waiting, you can combine it with the Gnome Desktop
Summit tentatively planned for late November. This event will be
funded.  Just be forewarned, we do not want to be work with show
boaters.

Best of luck An with SFD :-)

Kevin
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