Is anyone available to attend a workshop on FLOSS and community/voluntary groups in Sheffield, UK? CivicSpace Labs would be happy to spend time with you in advance bringing you up to speed on how the Drupal platform is meeting these needs so that you could represent our interests at this two day workshop. Please get in touch if you are interested and available. Details are in the forwarded note below. Cheers, Kieran Begin forwarded message:

From: "Dearden, Andrew M" <A.M.Dearden@shu.ac.uk> Date: April 26, 2005 10:18:46 AM PDT To: <kieran@civicspacelabs.org> Subject: Communities & Technology / June movements

Hi Kieran

It was good to meet you at the CHI BoF. (I'm the guy with the pony-tail & moustache - see www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/teaching/amd )

I was wondering whether you or one of your CivicSpace colleagues was planning to attend Communities & Technology in Milan, Italy (June 13th - 16th).

I am planning a small workshop for the week after that (20th & 21st of June) in Sheffield, UK to look at the relationship between FLOSS and the needs of community / voluntary groups. We are aiming to bring people from the voluntary sector in UK together with people with an interest in FLOSS to both map out what is already available, and to identify requirements / issues for future development / ways to get over any barriers to uptake. It would be great to have someone from CivicSpace at the meeting.

We have some funding to meet expenses (not necessarily a full transatlantic flight, but at least the costs for staying in Europe for a few more days). Alternatively, you may already have some Europeans who are already involved in CivicSpace who I could get in touch with. Any suggestions, let me know.

Details of what we are doing are at: http://otho.cms.shu.ac.uk/pmwiki/pmwiki.php (though I haven't put up the details of the June meeting yet!)

Thanks

Andy