[kde-edu]: [kde-promo] booth at the Ecumenical Church Day

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Bjoern Schiessle<schiessle at fsfeurope.org> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> From 12th to 16th May 2010 the Ecumenical Church Day[1] will take place
> at Munich (Germany).
>
> Mostly Free Software projects attend technical events but I think it is
> important to reach other groups as well.  Especially the social aspects
> of Free Software like equal capabilities for education, communication,
> work and even social networking are values which can connect quite
> nicely with the social thinking of the church. But also more technical
> topics like the control over your data for which Open Standards and Free
> Software are essential can fit nicely into overall context context.
> Beside the church there will be also other NGOs so this could be a good
> opportunity for networking and to reach many different people.
>
> That's why we, the Free Software Foundation Europe, are interested in
> having a booth there. The deadline to register a booth is 31th August
> 2009.
>
> The smallest booth is 16m². I think it would be nice if we could not only
> explain Free Software but also show them Free Software in practise.
> Therefore I had the idea to share this booth wit 1 or 2 Free Software
> projects and of course one of my first ideas was to share the booth with
> KDE. :-)

We're honored :D

> What do you think about it? Would it be interesting for KDE to attend
> such an event?

Of course. Now it will be up to us to find people capable and
interested in being there. As the KDE Educational team is both active
and seems a good fit to an event like this, I included them in CC.
They don't just work on applications which can and do help children
worldwide, but also can tell a lot more about initiatives involving
Free and Education. I included Frank Karlitzchek because you
specifically mentioned Social Networking which is a special interest
of him.

BTW 'capable' just means 'willing and having time', any thing else can
be arranged. So if you are interested in helping out in any way,
please consider this! I promise it is big fun, and you're doing a good
thing for both KDE, Free Software and the World in general.
Suggestions for others who might be interested are also greatly
appreciated!

> [1] http://www.oekt.de/english/home_english.html
>
> best wishes,
> Björn

Cheers,

Jos Poortvliet
KDE Marketing Team

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