Toronto Open Source Week - Oct 24-30 ?

[Matthew Middleton]

I'm wondering if they mean a "Open Source expo that targets not-for-profit
orgs"...there's a lot of charities that could benefit from a better
understanding of what's available to them in the realm of open source.

-Matt

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ILKAY
Sent: August 13, 2009 5:10 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Toronto Open Source Week - Oct 24-30 ?

On 13/08/09 04:29 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Scott Elcomb<psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I was looking at the FSOSS 2009 page and discovered that there's a
>> whole week of Open Source Goodness being planned in Toronto:
>>
>>  http://opensourceweek.ca/
>>  October 24-30, 2009 - "Toronto Open Source Week is a celebration of
>> Open Source technology and community throughout the Toronto area."
>>
>> Anyone on the list have more information about this celebration?  This
>> is the first I've heard of it.  If it was mentioned here before then I
>> must've missed it.
> 
> Well, it seems to be an ad-hoc recognition of there being a number of
> "open source"-related events that week.
> 
> Ontario LinuxFest is an obvious thing, as is the Seneca College FSOSS.
> 
> I don't know what the "not-for-profit open source expo" on the 26th is
> supposed to be, though...

It's supposed to be a clear signal to businesses that "you're not really
welcome here". I've noticed an unfortunate tendency amongst some (many?)
open source proponents to consider "profit" to be a dirty word.
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