Flickr Photo by Green MoonPenguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at http://www.penguinday.org.
The latest agenda can be found here. They encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!
Sessions will include:
- Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
- Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
- Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices
- Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools
- Introduction to Linux
- Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
- Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
- Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal
- Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics
- CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences?
- Increasing Access with Community Broadband in SF
- Learnings from Google Summers of Code
- Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project
- Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
- Helping Techies and Non-Techies Communicate and Cooperate
- Creative Commons And Open Content
- Free and Open Source Firewalls
Penguin Day San Francisco is happening at the Odd Fellows Hall at 7th and Market Street, in the heart of downtown. Thanks to the generosity of Google, they're able to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!
Penguin Day SF is organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, CiviCRM, and Chicago Technology Cooperative, and generously sponsored by Google.
If you're going to be in town on the Saturday before the NTC, it will be a great opportunity to start learning! Register now at http://www.penguinday.org.