[FreeGeek] Raising Money/Publicity Through A FreeGeek Conference

[shawn]

This sounds like a good idea for you cats (meow!).  I just wanted to mention 
one thing:

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 00:32, Joe Bowser wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:22 -0800, Mike Cantelon wrote:
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> > I think hosting a conference would help FreeGeek on a lot of levels:

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> > *It could bring folks from various FreeGeek locations together to plot
> > and scheme ;)

We like this idea, too.  In fact, we had a Free Geek Con last year around the 
time of the big Open Source Convention in late July, and we'll probably do 
the same thing again.  The conference is always in PDX, though: 
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/  Since lots of FG folks were in 
town from far away for the conference anyway, it worked out pretty well.  
This kind of get-together will become more important as Free Geek 
Intergalactic comes into being, I'd think.  

There are obviously lots of other reasons for you to hold a conference in 
Vancouver.  We also had a conference here in 2004 and 2005 focusing on FOSS 
for non-profits.  We called it Penguin Day. 
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Penguin_Day   It was good publicity.  But 
in terms of focusing a bunch on getting Free Geeks together: it might be hard 
to get many of us up there considering geographical setbacks (excepting 
Portland folks - we're close!  Yay!).    So, logistically, I think it might 
be good to focus on getting the burgeoning Intergalactic together in late 
July and rock the donations/publicity/FOSS/community angle for your 
conference (but still invite all the Geeks, of course).

shawn