Please inform me if i can contribute to this event....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:10:43 -0700 To: "'PLUG'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'PLUG Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'PLUG Org'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [plug] NCC-IT Month Celebration - "Open Source Bazaar" > Good morning my fellow PLUGgers, > > The National Computer Center will be celebrating it's NCC-IT Month and they > allocated a one day sort of "Open Source Bazaar" and PLUG is the main > organization to handle this event. This will be held at the National > Computer Center, Diliman, Quezon City on June 26, 2002. NCC provided us the > following venue/resources: > > - One (1) AVR with wide screen for 108 seaters. The AVR is good for Linux > and Open Source Advocacy only. > > - Three (3) Computer Laboratories and 15 PCs for every lab. This is good > for our Technical/Hands-on/mini-Training/SIGs events. > > - Three (3) Classrooms and 30 seaters each. Probably this will be used for > any displays that we have, like selling of distros, Linux desktops, etc. > > In this regard, in behalf of the Philippine Linux Users' Group, I would like > to ask people to help us make this event a successful one. This is our > chance to advocate not just techie people but all types of sectors in the > community to be aware and even use Linux and other Open Source Software as > an alternative to the proprietary ones. This is also a chance to make our > government awake from a long time sleep of using proprietary softwares if > "convinced" is not the right word, at least they are more aware. > > So much for this, I am requesting the "oldbies" to give a talk especially on > the ADVOCACY because this is where we will be convincing especially the > government sector to use Linux and other Open Source Software and we are > expecting an audience coming from the BSA (daw) and other "hardcore" users > of the "proprietary softwares". > > Also, I am inviting speakers for the SIGs, Linux Basics, Basic xxx > Programming, etc. for the 3 Computer Laboratories to give a talk with > hands-on exercises or some sort. > > And lastly, we need volunteers to help us work this event. > > Anyway, below are some of the topics that I have in mind and please add, > remove, suggest, etc. na lang... > > FOR THE ADVOCACY: > Venue: AVR > > - Adoption of Linux and Open Source Software in the Government (Ian S., will > you take this?) > - Is Linux and OSS secured? > - Linux and OSS for Enterprise Computing > - Open Source: What is it all about? (Eric Pareja, will you take this?) > - Open Education (Doc Mana and/or Mr. Rommel Feria, will you take this?) > - Linux and OSS in the Health Sector (Dr. Cito Maramba, will you take this?) > - etc. > > FOR THE TECHNICAL & NEWBIE TOPICS: > Venue: 3 Computer Laboratories > > - Installation and Getting Started with Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, > Slackware, SuSE, etc.) > - Basic Systems Administration > - Basic Networking > - Basic Security > - PHP Web Development > - Basic Bourne Shell Scripting > - Basic Perl Programming > - Basic Setup and Configuration of Apache > - Samba as PDC > - Postfix and/or qmail > - Bind 9 and/or djbdns > - vim and/or emacs > - etc. > > I would like to call the attention of the following "oldbies" like: > > - Dr. Pablo Manalastas > - Dr. Cito Maramba > - Mr. Randy Ong > - Mr. Orly Andico > - Mr. Dido Sevilla > - Mr. Migs Paraz > - Mr. William Emmanuel Yu > - Mr. Gino Ledesma > - Mr. Jijo Sevilla > - Mr. Meric Mara > - PLUG Officers and Board > - and others whom I forgot as of the moment... > > ...to please help us by simply be one of the speakers for this momentous > event. > > If you are interested to help us, please e-mail me ASAP so that we can > arrange the event properly. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > --- > MARVIN T. PASCUAL > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel. #: (+63-2) 925-2052/981-7022 > Linux User No. 247147 > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="Marvin T. Pascual.vcf" > BEGIN:VCARD > VERSION:2.1 > N:Pascual;Marvin T. > FN:Marvin T. Pascual > ORG:Bureau of Internal Revenue;Information Systems Development Service > TITLE:Information Systems Analyst 1 > TEL;WORK;VOICE:9252052 > TEL;WORK;VOICE:9817022 > TEL;HOME;VOICE:9293952 > TEL;PREF:9252052 > ADR;WORK:;Systems Maintenance and Support Division;#14 Makadios Street, Sikatuna >Village;Quezon City;;1101;Philippines > LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Systems Maintenance and Support >Division=0D=0A#14 Makadios Street, Sikatuna = > Village=0D=0AQuezon City 1101=0D=0APhilippines > EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > REV:20020423T181951Z > END:VCARD > -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
