<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hello. There will be a conference about the use and promotion of open source software which is being conducted in Ankara, Turkey between October 17-20 inclusive. The conference was held before and mostly developers, IT people and managers come to benefit from it. Also in the conference there are seminars, talks and workshops which are given by people such as: contributors to open source projects, employee/manager of a company that provide open source software solutions, government instution IT specialists, developers, etc. The aim of the conference is to let the attendees learn from people who have started using open source software or migrated to open source and to promote its usage in attendees' institutions. The conference is being conducted yearly by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - National Academic Network and Information Center) and it is being supported by the Ministry of Science and Industry and is seen as a step to promote open source software usage. It would be great if a seminar/talk/workshop about LibreOffice is done at the event. It is also encouraged by the government to use open document standards in institutions and not much have been talked about this in the previous conferences. I wonder if anyone with interest that will be in Turkey between those dates or residing in Turkey would spare their time to give a seminar/talk/workshop. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <div class="moz-signature">-- Gökhan Gurbetoğlu TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM 0312 298 92 76 <a href="mailto:gokhan@pardus.org.tr">gokhan@pardus.org.tr</a> <a href="http://pardus.org.tr">pardus.org.tr</a></div> </body> </html>