[CREATE] open source | open hearts

[ginger coons]

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 <gpittman at iglou.com> 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
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