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Dear all - Exciting news! FSFE have agreed to purchase four laptops - like this
http://www.schtrade.co.uk/prod/lenovo-thinkpad-x61-7674-core-2-duo-2ghz-4gb-...
for us to use for a video editing event which I would like to organize. checkout the info about the event at the bottom of the email.
The bad news is, after the event (say at the end of August) these laptops will be needed back in Berlin for other things. (The good news is that they won't be coming out of the fellowship group meetings budget, so we may still be able to purchase some other things for our group later on).
Also, those of you, like myself, who are thinking "perhaps I will buy one of those great little laptops at such a good price" - please do arrange this! I will be buying one, and a few other fellows are too. I will be purchasing some on behalf of other people, am happy to do that for you too if you like.
If we do buy our own ones too, -as a group, we will still have the advantages of "small, lightweight, event worthy machines with the same os installed at the same time" for the long term - we could keep the original partition free of personal stuff and so use it to run events in the future. This is what I will do anyway :)
To arrange this with me, email me off list. Payments need to be made asap - order will be placed on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. I will pay for the whole lot on my business credit card and then recoup the funds from there. I will also get the power supplies from Amazon. If you want to but them independently, try and make sure its the same one as in the link - 4g of ram (others for the same price on the same site only have 2)
Love much!
Anna
About the sprint:
The sprint will be to edit the interview footage with women in free software that I organised last year, at flossie, to create an archive of interviews called "The Record." I have about 35 interviews sitting on my hard drive, each lasting about an hour, with an amazing range of women working in free software, from librarians to musicians, artists,poets, coders, academics, designers etc etc. At the sprint we would sync the sound, edit in slides with the questions on and edit out ums and errs. I would like to make a half hour short film as a second stage too, in time to premier at flossie 2013 in November :)