Free Software Conference in Scandinavia

[Gunnar Wolf]

Jeremiah Foster dijo [Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:24:32PM +0100]:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Just wanted to let everyone know about a Free Software Conference in
> Scandinavia this December. More about that here: http://fscons.org
> 
> One of the sponsors of the conference wanted some of his sponsorship
> money to go specifically to debian. While this is not a lot of money
> (EUR 250) it still is something. I tried to talk to some of the people
> from the debian-perl group to get them interested in travelling here but
> they were busy or uninterested.
> 
> Can someone suggest an effective way for me to spend this money to help
> the debian project? We will have a debian "dev" room which I am in
> charge of, and I am going to do some hacking on packages while at the
> conference as well as give a lightning talk on perl, but none of that
> will cost any money. 
> 
> If someone has an idea of how this money can be well spent I am open to
> suggestions. I suppose I could buy memory for alioth or something like
> that, but is that the best "bang for the buck"? 

Umh... Does the money have to be _spent_? i.e. you can donate it to
SPI or so. Is the conference somehow linked to Perl? If not, it can be
used to get people working in Debian -even though not in the group- to
travel and -if space is still available- present something...

Greetings,

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