A suggestion that might be appropriate in Montreal: Dans La Rue ( http://www.danslarue.com/en ), which provides services to at-risk youth. They've got a nice history of teaching things like software/design competencies.
-ginger On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > This rather cheesy subject line is my lead-in to an idea that came up in my > head earlier today. > > There may be insufficient time to implement this in Montreal, but the idea > is that, rather than just being a bunch of geeks that breeze in and breeze > out of town, leaving money in our wake, we might find a way each year to > connect to the community where LGM takes place. > > Is there some volunteer task we might do one evening while at LGM that > makes some kind of connection with the host city and its community? A simple > one might be helping out in some setting such as a place for the homeless. A > less simple one might be some volunteer effort that in some way connects to > the expertise of attendees in computers, technology, graphics. > > What does this do for us? > An important question. For attendees it offers a way to at least briefly > immerse ourselves in some aspect of the environment where LGM takes place, > makes us a bit less "outlandish" both from our perspective and those in the > host city. > > It offers some notoriety, something that sets LGM apart from other > tech-oriented conferences. We might find ways to participate in some > fund-raising as a means to simply hand over some amount of money to some > group, but I think that personal involvement says a lot more than the > dollars would, and even those who cannot contribute money can give their > time. It wouldn't hurt for other open source conferences to follow our lead. > > So I'd like to see if this resonates with anyone else. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- ginger "all-lower-case" coons adaptstudio.ca 647.865.7757 (Toronto) 514.213.1318 (Montreal)
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