Schedule, October 15, 2005

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Registration - Coffee, Bagels and Doughnuts

• Informal socializing over coffee.

9:30 - 10:15 Opening Circle

• Martin Oso from Free Geek will facilitate an introductory session to find out who’s in the room and get a chance to learn about why people are here. This will lead into the morning sessions which are intended to be lively discussions by the whole group with the support of a panel of experts available to lend their expertise to dialogue.

10:15 - 11:15 Morning Breakouts

Morning Sessions will focus on several themes with sessions being finalized in the next few weeks.

• Introduction to Open Source
• Open Source on the Desktop
• Local resources and who’s-who in the Portland Free/Open Source community
• Helping techies and non-techies communicate and cooperate
• e-Advocacy platforms
• The Economics of Open Source: How free is “free?”
• Podcasting with Open Source: Telling Your Organization’s Story
• Selecting an Open Source operating system
• Migrating your organization to Free and Open Source software
• Funding, financing and sustaining an Open Source project
• Hardware recycling using Free and Open Source Software
• Creative Commons and Open Content

Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Speed Geek!

Speed Geeking is a fast, fun way to interactively learn about projects, software, and programs.

Afternoon Session

2:45 - 4:30 Afternoon Sessions

Smaller group sessions designed to be more hands on and focused on practical tools.  We are finalizing sessions for the afternoon now.
If you are interested in a particular topic, please be in touch at agenda [at] penguinday.org

4:30 - 5:00 Closing Circle

5:00 - Optional Gathering at a Nearby Watering Hole

 
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