[Announce] Penguin Day comes to San Francisco!

[Cathy Malmrose]

Ha! What a riot. I sure hope I can make it. It's the weekend of LinuxFest
Northwest which I love, but Penguin Day... I will be inviting my son's 2nd
grade class in which many of the parents are Linux advocates, highly
technical. Our class potlucks are mini geek fests. Plus, the class has been
studying penguins all year in great detail so they would love it.

Michelle, thanks for posting about this. I hadn't heard about it, but it
sure sounds like fun.

--Cathy Malmrose
www.zareason.com

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Michelle Murrain <michelle at murrain.net>wrote:

> Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009,
> right before the NTC. We'd love to see you there!
>
> Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists
> learn about free and open source software that can support their work
> and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing,
> fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.
>
> Full details are at www.penguinday.org. Thanks to the generosity of
> Google, we're delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!
>
> The latest agenda can be found at
>
> http://pd.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Penguin_Day_Agenda
>
> and we encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!
>
> Sessions will include:
>
> * Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
> * Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
> * Fundraising with all free software
> * Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices
> * Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools
> * Introduction to Linux
> * Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
> * Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
> * Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal
> * Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics
> * CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences?
> * Increasing Access with Community Broadband in SF
> * Learnings from Google Summers of Code
> * Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project
> * Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
> * Helping Techies and Non-Techies Communicate and Cooperate
> * Creative Commons And Open Content
> * Free and Open Source Firewalls
>
> Penguin Day San Francisco is happening at the Odd Fellows Hall at 7th
> and Market Street, in the heart of downtown.
>
> We invite you to register now at www.penguinday.org. It's going to be a
> great day!
>
> Penguin Day SF is organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, CiviCRM, and
> Chicago Technology Cooperative, and generously sponsored by Google.
>
> We look forward to seeing you there, and please feel free to post and
> forward this announcement far and wide :^)
>
> thanks & peace,
> gunner, Michelle, Ryan, Dave and Jim
> Penguin Day Organizing Committee
>
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