[Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: [Acm-announce] Flourish! Open Source Conference 2012 - A call for volunteers!

[Samir Faci]

Quasi on topic...   I'm not sure if there's a Ubuntu Chicago List that
is different from the Loco Team list, if there is let me know.

Forwarding a request for volunteers for Flourish if anyone is
interested in helping with the organizing the event.

Naturally even if there aren't any we'd welcome Ubuntu Chicago to have
a booth at the conference and advertise both the Loco
activities and the distributions and such.

--
Samir Faci


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen Liang <sliang6 at uic.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:32 AM
Subject: [Acm-announce] Flourish! Open Source Conference 2012 - A call
for volunteers!
To: Association for Computing Machinery <ACM at listserv.uic.edu>,
Acm-announce at acm.cs.uic.edu, Flourish event planning list
<flourish at listserv.uic.edu>


Hey guys,

We all know that Flourish is coming fairly soon in a couple of months
and since a conference is not created overnight, and since a lot of
planning is involved, I'd like to start looking for potential
volunteers who can help make this incredible conference even more
incredible this year. For those of you who do not know what Flourish
is, let me give you a brief introduction to the conference.

Flourish is an Open Source conference that is held annually in Chicago
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It is a conference that is
put together with help from both the Association for Computing
Machinery and from the Linux User's Group with funding from the
Department of Computer Science and other sources. We put together this
conference with a fairly small budget and yet we are able to make an
impact in our local community and we have helped show that Chicago is
a truly technologically powerful city full of brilliant minds and
great ideas. In the past, we've had great speakers come in and give
presentations, we've had workshops where people can come and learn
something new by actually working it hands on, and we've even had
hack-a-thons where people get together to put lots of code together in
a fairly short amount of time. By putting all of this together, we
create a conference that is not only satisfying but also
intellectually stimulating. Keep in mind, that Flourish is not only a
conference about technology, but it is also a conference that includes
people ranging from law to political activists.

So where do you come into the picture? We need people who can come and
help plan the conference. We need people who can go out into the big
world wide web and help us find speakers and keynotes. It does not
matter if you do not know many people, this is a perfect time to start
networking! If you'd like to help piece together this conference,
please fill out this following google speadsheet and I will get back
to you when we begin our first official Flourish meeting. While we do
not have any meetings planned yet -- we are certainly still looking
for potential volunteers! We plan to start having regular Flourish
meetings beginning late in this semester and continuing from then on
(bi weekly) until the day of the conference.

So please sign up for the volunteer list and I'll get you enrolled
into our Flourish listserv and help you get set up in terms of getting
volunteer access and such.

Oh, and here are some of the perks of being a volunteer (from the start):

You get a special T-Shirt that signifies that you are Staff or perhaps
we may even get one that says STAFF on it this year
You get to network with people from the open source community and even
the industry
Your name appears on the brochures and pamphlets we hand out
Great resume builder!!!!
You'll be burned into Flourish history as part of our website archives

Also, don't be afraid to sign up even if you can't help us in terms of
finding speakers. We could always use people who can help us design
the website, provide technological support, help with budgeting, etc.
Please, if you have time, please sign up!

Google Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhoajQtdllBZWpFZlhTSFF0ZWpBeFE6MQ

Finally, I put together this preliminary website for Flourish 2012
fairly quickly, but it's a good start. Check out the Flourish 2012
website!

http://flourishconf.com

Hope you can help us create a great conference!

Stephen

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