Hi Jonas,
Got it. Thanks for tidying up the loose edges there.
I know it is not a huge donation, but I guess anything helps......I will travel to and speak at the conference for free, so you can remove any costs associated with me from the budget.
How are you thinking of financing this? Are we looking for donors?
Tom
Jonas Oberg wrote:
Hi Tom,
- What is our target audience?
I'm going to go ahead and answer a lot of questions at once, if that's okay with you. We have long discussed arranging some sort of workshop or seminar series on Free Software, and the topics and audience has been different most times we've spoken about it.
One of the reasons we've not been able to do it has been lack of resorces, both economic and human resources. So we need to start somewhere, and I think we should work on increasing our human resources.
So the workshop that I outlined is aimed at those who will primarily be interested in working with us, which is the slightly more technical people in society, most of them in the 20-35 year range, either studying or working in the software field.
It would be an opportunity both for them to see what we do, but also for us to get to know them. And it would bring a lot of people much closer to us, where we can actually use them as resources.
Subsequently, we will also want to do more specific conferences, seminars and workshops, aimed at more specific fields, but I think we need to start where we have the highest chance of success and gain some momentum by fighting some easy to win battles before we go for the big fish.
And this would be one of those easy to win battles.