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   1. Re:  help (Pia Waugh)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:32:52 +1000
From: Pia Waugh < greebo@pipka.org>
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] help
To: xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart@gmail.com>
Cc: sfd-discuss@sf-day.org
Message-ID: <20070617113252.GU17509@waugh.id.au>
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Hi Xolani,

<quote who="xolani Ndlovu">

> hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the
> opensource movement   for the past
> three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a
> friend to   start an open source movement in  Bulawayo   (OPEN SOURCE
> Bulawayo) its  dead  in Bulawayo    so  anyone  who   can help   us please
> do we are still at school so   resources  are problem please help

It is great to here you are excited about FLOSS! To start a new community I
highly recommend using Software Freedom Day as a launch event o get people
interested and get the group going. Plan with your friend to run some sort
of public event, perhaps at a University or school, and try to get lots of
young people to come along. Make sure you register as a team so we can send
you some tshirts, CDs and other goodies to help make your event look
fantastic!

For more ideas on running an event, check out the Start Guide at:
    http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide

And for more ideas about starting a new community, check out:
     http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html
    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html

Hope that helps, good luck in spreading software freedom to Bulawayo!

Cheers,
Pia

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Linux Australia                                         http://linux.org.au/

     "Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains." - Jean Jacques
                                  Rosseau

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