On Thursday, April 21, 2011 06:41:50 AM Carl Symons wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:05 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just thinking that there hasn't much information on LFNW, coming up > > next weekend. > > > > Any news from the great North West area? > > > > Thanks > > > > Drew > > Dona, Andy and I have been pulling things together. Things look good > so far. Andy rounded up some printed materials and t-shirts for booth > staff. It's too early to get into specifics much beyond LibreOffice > having a presence in the exhibit; student volunteers were assigned > just yesterday (4/20) and there has not been an opportunity for much > scheming. Maybe videos (following your lead, Drew), airplane > contest...Dona and the volunteer team will be working out these > details. > > LibreOffice will be one of the prime demos in the Tutorium > (http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/tutorium). > > This is the 12th LFNW and the largest ever. It's truly open. > Registration optional. No admission. Hard attendance count is not > available ahead of time, and is a reasonably good guess after the > Fest. > > A big party/gathering/job fair has been added Friday evening before > the Fest (http://tagnw.org/technight). Saturday and Sunday are loaded > with presentation goodies > (http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/schedule). > > Free admission after party on Saturday with beer provided by > LinuxAutomation.org; they also have a day-long exhibit "Free (as in > speech) brewing (as in beer)"...brewing with Linux > (http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/free-speech-brewing-beer) > > If you're going to be anywhere on the US West Coast and you're into > F/OSS, Bellingham (and linuxfestnorthwest.org) is the place to be. > > Carl Thanks Carl. next weekend will be out for me. Our Local Lions Club supports the HydroPlane races that weekend. I have all ready volunteered to help there.
Are there other events through out the year, like a users group. I live in Moses Lake, WA. Been using OpenOofiice and now LibreOffice since my distro switched to it ( openSUSE 11.4 Linux). Thanks again for the reply -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
