[Ubuntu-SG] Speaker Request for NUS SFD, 19 Sept 2008 @ NUS

[C David Rigby]

Greetings Team Ubuntu Singapore,

Since I learned of your groups existence a couple of weeks ago, I've been
meaning to join up. Ubuntu is my primary desktop GNU/Linux, so this is the
place for me!

Through our site http://softwarefreedomday.sg (thanks for the link on your
homepage!) I've received a contact from Dang Thanh Son, the Sun Campus
Ambassador @ NUS. He is helping with the NUS SFD event which will take place
Friday 19 Sept 2008 from 13:00 until 17:00 (details here:
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/SOSUMNUS). He writes:


My name is Dang Thanh Son, Sun Campus Ambassador. We are also celebrating
SFD at NUS but on Fri 19 Sept 08. I would like to invite one person from
Linux user groups to come down to give a talk about Linux at 3-4pm on Fri 19
Sept?

We corresponded a bit, and I posted his request to the LMGS and
sfds2008 at googlegroups.com lists. No one responded, so I asked him what would
be acceptable topics. I proposed two, related topics, both of which he said
were fine:

   - Would a talk on the topic of "Trying Linux" be OK? That is a topic that
   I might be able to get a speaker for, and it provides a good "hands on"
   presentation. The audience could try using Linux during the talk. The
   audience members would have to bring their own laptops, of course, but we
   might be able to come up with some Live CDs.
   - Would an Ubuntu presentation be OK? We have a an active Ubuntu group
   here. Their focus is specifically Ubuntu, and I would expect their
   presentation to be oriented towards promoting Ubuntu.

The latter point was made specifically with TUGS in mind. I wanted to make
sure that something like that would be OK before I asked here.

Is anyone interested in doing this?

I'd love to help them out, as well as promote TUGS, Ubuntu, & SFD in
general. I am trying to avoid volunteering for a presentation myself due to
my involvement in preparations for LMGS's SFD event at SMU. As well, I have
to fly out of Singapore a few hours after the SFD event on 20 Sept.

Regardless, let me know what you think. If I cannot find a speaker for him,
then I may try to manage it myself. My wife won't be too happy, but she'll
have 12 hours on the plane to Italy, Saturday night/Sunday morning, to
express herself... (8->

Regards
C David Rigby
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