I am breaking a record here! I drove to Canberra from Sydney (3.5 hours) yesterday at 2 to get to the WAVE seminar, at which I gave a short introduction as to how Open Source and Open Knowledge can benefit socioeconomically disadvantaged peoples, in this forum, particularly women, and it went down really well. I had a lot of interest, and hopefully we’ll ahve some awesome Linux rollouts to rural Australian communities who are severely disadvantaged in terms of education, online services and communications. When I get more information I’ll be spamming the SLUG mailing list as well as other LUGs around the country for people keen for some awesome road trips! I’m expecting this will be a fantastic opportunity to not only teach more people about Linux, but to bring real opportunities to people who need them.
Anyway, back to my record, I drove back to Sydney this morning at 3:30am, after 4 hours sleep and I go back to Canberra this afternoon. Yay sanity! Anyway, I’m getting some people psyched in Canberra for the Open Computing in Government (but I still like to call it the OSG conference, otherwise lots of pollies have no idea what I’m talking about 🙂 ) co-conference, and I managed to convince my company to be a sponsor. Go team! I am really getting somewhere with them, and I’m so proud to have a large Aussie company joining to ranks of OS providers in Australia, especially as we are developing awesome relationships with other smaller Aussie companies, and actually bringing a lot of what works in the Open Source world to the corporate world. Who knows, I may be able to change corporate culture for the better 😉
The wedding is only a week away! HFSNW!