<div dir="ltr">Maybe we can try and invite Ching Wong ( author of [1] ) to talk ? :-) Brief intro of him from [2]: <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> Chin Wong has been covering the Philippine IT industry since the 1980s, starting as a reporter for Business Day, Southeast Asia's first daily business newspaper. In 1991, he helped found Computerworld Philippines, and worked as its editor until his retirement from the company in 2002. In that year, he was named IT Journalist of the Year at the Philippine ICT Journalism Awards. </blockquote> Not sure though if he talks for free :-P I don't know him personally. I just read his article awhile ago :-) [1] " Ubuntu for business " : <a href="http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_july22_2008">http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_july22_2008</a> [2] <a href="http://www.chinwong.com/index.php?/site/about/">http://www.chinwong.com/index.php?/site/about/</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Jerome Gotangco <<a href="mailto:jgotangco@ubuntu.com">jgotangco@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi everyone, Me and some friends are currently organizing an event for Ubuntu enthusiasts in Manila, called Ubuntu Love Day Manila, tentatively scheduled on the 23rd of August. The venue is still for confirmation, but we plan at at UP Diliman. We plan this to be a half-day event in the morning, which will allow participants to a chance to group together and have high-bandwidth, face to face networking. Going to the event proper, we are thinking of 5 talks from the local Ubuntu to community, not to teach concepts, but to share experiences in how they use Ubuntu in their computing needs. We have already 2 volunteers to talk about: 1. The 30 day Ubuntu challenge - being productive in using Ubuntu for daily computing needs for 30 days from a Windows user 2. Experiences in contributing to upstream KDE development and supporting the Kubuntu community. We're looking for 2-3 more volunteers that would like to share their experience with Ubuntu. These could be in various fields like Multimedia, Graphic design, Software Development, Social work, Legal, etc. A 30 minute discussion with slides would be ideal. Also if you would like to contribute, please remember that this is not a tutorial session, but rather a chance to share to the community the potential of Ubuntu as the ideal operating system for your field. I'm also trying to fit in an OLPC session. We'll also try to do a live stream of the event via <a href="http://ustream.tv" target="_blank">ustream.tv</a> or <a href="http://justin.tv" target="_blank">justin.tv</a> If you are interested to help out, you can send me an email. -- Jerome -- ubuntu-ph mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph</a> </blockquote></div> </div>