On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Valentin Masero wrote:
I am contacting the list because we want to make a study about Open Source / Free Software for Health Care in the Spain and Portugal geographical area. And we need to know about people or projects working on this issue in Spain or Portugal.
In addition, we are making an international event on July 13th 2005 in Merida, in the south west of Spain, near to Portugal, and we need a few speakers for making speechs about Open Source for Health Care. Therefore, we will invite some speakers from the Spain/Portugal geographical area or any speaker from anywhere around the world who will be in Spain on July 2005.
Hotel and travel expenditures from Portugal or inside Spain will be paid by organization committee and also will be paid the speaker payment.
I would love to held a Debian-Med talk but I'm at Debian conference 5 in Helsinki at this time (and I'm neither from Spain nor Portugal).
Any contact will be welcome for either, the study about Open Source / Free Software for Health Care in the Spain and Portugal geographical area, or for making a speech on July 13th in Merida.
I will CC debian-med mailing list in case somebody from this area would be able to hold a talk which I would be able to prepare in English. I know that once I had one of my first talks it was even translated into Spanish but this one is to old and has to be overworked. I would love to support your effort as much as possible because I entered Spain last year for two conferences (and I will miss the next one next week for personal reasons unfortunately) and see very much power behind Open Source development in your countries.
My most important hint from my experiences last year is: Make sure that many people learn English good enough to join the international Open Source community. If you fail here you will have to do a lot of work which is just done.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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