(ISF) FW: Reminder - Join Us for Penguin Day New Orleans after NTC, 22 March 2008

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From: Allen Gunn < gunner%40aspirationtech.org">gunneraspirationtech.org&gt;
Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Subject: [RIDERS-TALK] Reminder - Join Us for Penguin Day New Orleans after
NTC, 22 March 2008
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Howdy Rider friends,

The first-ever Penguin Day New Orleans is coming up on Saturday, March 22,
2008, immediately after the NTC. We'd love to see you there!

We're doing lots of outreach to local nonprofits and activists, and we'd
love to have plenty of NTC folks present to share nonprofit software
knowledge with people working on important issues in and around New Orleans.

Full information is available at www.penguinday.org, and I've pasted the
full announcement below. The latest agenda can be found at

http://penguinday.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Penguin_Day_Agenda

and we encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!

Penguin Day New Orleans is happening at the very historic Basin St. Station,
just a few blocks from the Sheraton/NTC, with very generous support from
Joomla!

We invite you to Register Now. We have sliding scale and full scholarships
available!

We look forward to seeing you there, and please feel free to post and
forward this announcement far and wide :^)

thanks & peace, gunner

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Come to Penguin Day New Orleans!

March 22nd, 2008, 9am to 5pm

Basin Street Station (501 Basin Street at St. Louis Street)

For those of you who have not encountered them, Penguin Days allow nonprofit
organizations and social activists to explore the range of opportunities,
skills, challenges and options involved in using Free and Open Source
Software (F/OSS). For more information on Penguin Days, see
www.penguinday.org.

Penguin Day New Orleans will include sessions on:

* Introduction to Free and Open Source Software for Nonprofits

* Local resources and who's-who in the Free/Open Source community

* Overview of Free and Open Source desktop applications

* e-Advocacy platforms

* Intro to blogging

* Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems

* Free and open source CRM/contact management

* Helping techies and non-techies communicate

* Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities

* How Users Can Influence FOSS Development

* Business Models for FOSS developers and providers

* Content Management System (CMS) Crash Courses -- Plone, Joomla, and Drupal

* Creative Commons and Open Content

* SpeedGeeking (a lively tour of projects and tools)

And you are most welcome to propose or request additional sessions!

We invite you to register at

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/Aspiration/event/checkOut.jsp?event_KEY=35704&amp;t=penguin.dwt

(or http://tinyurl.com/26g62j if that's too long :^)

Penguin Day New Orleans is being organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet,
Joomla! and Chicago Technology Cooperative.

Penguin Day New Orleans is sponsored by Joomla!

Please let us know of questions, and we look forward to seeing you in New
Orleans!

thanks & peace,
gunner, Michelle, Ryan, Louis, Rob, San and Jim
Penguin Day Organizing Committee

For more information, contact:
info%40penguinday.org">infopenguinday.org
(415) 216.7252
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Allen Gunn
Executive Director, Aspiration
+1.415.216.7252www.aspirationtech.org

Aspiration: "Better Tools for a Better World";

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