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On 10/03/06, Keith Menadue <geeklord@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On the 22nd March Microsoft will be at the Maritime Museum Falmouth. > They will be supporting lets-profit.org.uk ( I believe they have a > £500,000 grant to assist ICT in Cornwall as part of Cornwall Enterprise). > The nice people at lets-profit.org.uk have asked if I would talk /demo > at a later date about Open Source and I have agreed to this. > They are coming to see me next Wednesday > I would like Linux and Open Source software like Open Office 2.0 to have > a significant impact at this future talk > I would be very great full and warmly welcome any ideas suggestions > etc that might make this Open Source event go with a bang It would be good to point them at http://www.openadvantage.org/ and http://www.skillswap.org/ - both of which already exist and are doing very well, with skillswap really taking off in Bristol now, by all accounts. I'd really like to know where that 500k is going - apart from an office and 3 salaries I really hope they plan to do more open source than just one talk - no offense, but the LUG has been organising pretty good education talks on a budget of zero, and I'm even planning a talk with the devon and cornwall perl mongers which will have speakers like Dave Cross (Author, Speaker, Perl Foundation). cheers, A. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html