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[Jaco <ubuntumuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Is this year's event being held in Wellington again? I quite enjoyed 
> being involved last year. For people who don't know, 
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/ is the global website, 
> http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/ is the corresponding local one.
I'm sure it is. The folks at Catalyst & SilverStripe are quite on the 
ball with this.
We did events the last 2 years in Auckland, the last one being held at 
the Uni.
I will probably not be as involved this year; will attend or maybe 
possibly go to the ASHS FLOSS game-day, if they're planning on doing 
that again.

> Some context is called for then: On Monday, I start as AltSpace's 
> Community Manager. AltSpace is a coworking space in central Wellington 
> for consultancies, free lancers & other people who like the freedom of 
> independence but don't like the isolation of working at home. The 
> policy for community events is, if the organisers don't charge 
> attendance, we don't charge them.
Nice one! (altspace.co.nz ?)
You referring to something similar to a MakerSpace/HakerSpace?
http://makerspace.org.nz/

We're only now getting the Auckland one up; still early days.

> Ergo - if anyone in the Wellington area would like to start a series 
> of meetups/hackfests/software miscellany, then there's space available 
> for exactly that purpose.
Some people make more use of social network sites to draw people 
(crowdsource?): MeetUp, FaceBook, Twitter/Identi.ca, etc
May be worth while tapping those resources too

Have a great weekend, all

- J