This mail might be of interest to some of you. Specifically: - debian-news : could you feature this to help finding volunteers (who possibly whould not need to travel too far) - debian-med : this might be of specific interest to you - debian-events-* : there is no mailing list for Africa, maybe some of you know people who can help. - Mr. Wilson - please read below ;) [quoted in full for information for most of you...] begin quotation from Michael L. Wilson (in <52A89AFD.30702@peercorpstrust.org>): > I hope that this email has found the Debian community well. It has. > By way of introduction my name is Michael Wilson and I currently serve as > the Director of the PeerCorps Centre for Injury Prevention. We are a > non-governmental organization institute based in Tanzania, East Africa. > Our primary aim lies in preventing various forms of trauma such as those > which might occur in the traffic environment, burns, poisoning and falls. > > Next year, in collaboration with the World Health Organization > Collaborating Centre for Safe Communities, we will host a regional > conference on safety in Arusha, Tanzania. Participants will come from the > East African region, Europe and elsewhere. > > I write with the aim of establishing whether there might be interest > within the Debian community in participating in the conference to promote > the use of the Debian OS and free software in science, government and > healthcare (GNU Health). PeerCorps is an advocate of FLOSS software. > > The anticipated audience at the conference includes policy makers, > healthcare professionals, scientists, community-activists and government > officials. Thus, it represents a particularly attractive venue for the > promotion of the Debian OS and free software. > > What we are intending to offer is a reserved space in an exhibition hall. > While other anticipated sponsors will register their tables for a > sponsorship fee, we would like to provide the space and table to the > Debian community free of cost. > > If this idea is one that your side might be willing to support, I would > very much like to hear from you and of ways in which this might be > mutually beneficial. Ok, this is interesting but problematic. We are a volunteer based organization, and as such funding intercontinental flights is difficult. I will forward this mail to different subgroups which might be interested in helping out. (I myself would probably not afford it but might come if funded.) > -- > Michael L. Wilson > PeerCorps Trust Fund - Tanzania > www.peercorpsglobal.org (Blog) > www.peercorpstrust.org (Web) > > East African Safe Community Network > http://www.ki.se/csp/safecom/networks/east_african.htm cu AW -- [...] If you don't want to be restricted, don't agree to it. If you are coerced, comply as much as you must to protect yourself, just don't support it. Noone can free you but yourself. (crag, on Debian Planet) Arne Wichmann (aw@linux.de)
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