[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day (new thread)

[David Duffy]

Mark Ellem wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:51 pm, Russell Stuart wrote:
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>>I am not sure an individual store would attract enough people.
>>A largish shopping centre would be good.  If you could find
>>one that will allow us to set up a stand on Saturday then I
>>personally go for that.  As Harry said, it would give us
>>more people who haven't heard of OSS before.
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>Centro Properties Group could be a place to approach. At my local shopping 
>centre (Centro Lutwyche) there always seems to be stalls representing various 
>community organizations. I've seen similar in other Centro managed centres as 
>well (Toombul and Springwood for example). They own some fairly large-ish 
>shopping centres in Brisbane so it could be ideal for SFD.
>
>Otherwise, the SCM looks good despite the fact it would be a day later. I'm 
>still up for volunteering on the day and can make it to the SCM easily 
>enough.
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Most shopping centres charge even for non-profit organisations
these days and they also want you to have your own insurance!
I've been through this fairly recently with my school's P&C. :-(
David...

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