Re: [Fsfe-uk] Membership/Recruitment

[MJ Ray]

Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm the events officer for Bristol University's student computer society,
> and if anyone from the AFFS wants to give a talk at Bristol I'd be happy
> to make arrangements.

Can you post some possible dates?  I am sometimes in Somerset and quite
happy to talk on quite a strange range of topics.  Other list members may
be available, both to talk on AFFSy topics, or about their other projects.

> Actually they do promote open source as well, for instance with the annual
> UKUUG Open Source Award which is awarded for the most
> significant contribution to open source made by a UK student.

Details at http://www.ukuug.org/osa/  Should AFFS try to offer a similar
award, maybe for 16-18 education, or all pre-18?  Maybe that's something
for an education interest group to look into, in association with any
other school-/FE-related groups.  Any UKUUG member want to politely ask
them for a rename?  ;-)

Anyway, regardless of what they call their free software promotion,
don't they also promote the proprietary software?  As long as that is the
case, I guess AFFS may be able to work with them on specific projects,
but not in general :-/

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