Once I have a final flyer design, I can print some up and mail them.  That will give us representation at the very least.<br />
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I will put out the lastest proposal(s) a bit later today<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span><strong>Randall (Randy) Arnold</strong><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600">maemo.org community council</span><br />
</span></span><a href="http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana">http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/</span></a><br />
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(sorry for top posting-- email format makes distinguising bottom replies difficult)<br />
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<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #bfe8fb 2px solid">----- Original message ----- <br />
From: "Valerio Valerio" <vdv100@gmail.com><br />
To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
Subject: Maemo Community Invited to FOSS Nigeria 2010<br />
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:10:06 +0000<br />
<br />
Hi all,<br />
<br />
"The call for papers is now open and will accepting talks until 20th<br />
February 2010.<br />
Conference papers may cover all aspects of free and open source software<br />
projects."<br />
<br />
Detailed information below.<br />
<br />
Best regards,<br />
<br />
--<br />
Valério Valério<br />
Maemo Community Council Chair<br />
<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.valeriovalerio.org">http://www.valeriovalerio.org</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mustapha@fossnigeria.org">mustapha@fossnigeria.org</a>></span> <br />
Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM<br />
Subject: Maemo Community Invited to FOSS Nigeria 2010<br />
To: <a href="mailto:council@maemo.org">council@maemo.org</a><br />
Cc: <a href="mailto:info@fossnigeria.org">info@fossnigeria.org</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dear Council Members,<br />
<br />
Free and Open Source Software Foundation Nigeria <a target="_blank" href="http://fossnigeria.org">http://fossnigeria.org</a> in<br />
collaboration with The Centre for Information Technology at Bayero<br />
University Kano <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buk.edu.ng/">http://www.buk.edu.ng/</a> and HUTSOFT Nigeria Limited<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://hutsoftnigeria.com/">http://hutsoftnigeria.com/</a> are officially inviting your company to come and<br />
give talks at our second international conference on Free and Open Source<br />
Software Nigeria 2010 (FOSS Nigeria 2010 ).<br />
<br />
The conference is scheduled to take place from 5th to 7th March 2010 at<br />
Mambayya House, Centre for Democratic Research, Bayero University Kano,<br />
Kano State, Nigeria.<br />
<br />
Conference registration will be open on 1st January 2010 through the<br />
official FOSS Nigeria website.<br />
<br />
The call for papers is now open and will accepting talks until 20th<br />
February 2010.<br />
Conference papers may cover all aspects of free and open source software<br />
projects.<br />
<br />
For paper submissions, request for invitation letters or any other enquiry<br />
please write to the following e-mail addresses:<br />
<a href="mailto:conferences@fossnigeria.org">conferences@fossnigeria.org</a>, <a href="mailto:mustapha@fossnigeria.org">mustapha@fossnigeria.org</a> and<br />
<a href="mailto:iadasuma@fossnigeria.org">iadasuma@fossnigeria.org</a>.<br />
<br />
If your company wish to donate or advertise their open source products and<br />
services can send their banners, pamphlets, stickers, shirts or anything<br />
that can sell the idea to our community free of charge so that it can be<br />
distributed during the conference or hang in the conference hall for the<br />
duration of the conference and other FOSS Nigeria local events. We are<br />
still looking for donations and sponsorship to help us improve this<br />
conference further.<br />
All interanational invited attendees can attend the conference free of<br />
charge. In addition, as last year, food, accommodation throughout the stay<br />
in Nigeria and sight seeing will be sponsored by the organisation as well.<br />
<br />
Last year we received reports of people who would have wished to attend the<br />
conference but were unsure about visiting Nigeria. We understand there are<br />
many negative stories about our country, but we can assure you Kano will<br />
treat you well.<br />
<br />
Adriaan de Groot (Vice President KDE e.V) and Jonathan Riddell (Kubuntu<br />
Developer) are two KDE community members who attended the FOSS Nigeria 2009<br />
conference in March 2009. They can answer any question that you may have<br />
regarding the country and the conference, feel free to contact them.<br />
FOSS Nigeria 2009 Conference communique and reports can be found on our<br />
website <a target="_blank" href="http://fossnigeria.org/node/5">http://fossnigeria.org/node/5</a><br />
FOSS Nigeria 2009 Pictures can be found on the Flickr account from Jonathan<br />
Riddell <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/sets/72157614991241443/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/sets/72157614991241443/</a><br />
Hope to see you all at FOSS Nigeria 2010.<br />
<br />
Mustapha Abubakar,<br />
Organiser-FOSS Nigeria 2010.<br />
 
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