[Hudlug] invitation to give a short talk about open source

[Andrew Wilson]

Hello there,

my name is Andrew Wilson. I help organise a very occasional (we are on 
our second) event in Huddersfield called All Sorts of Technology and 
Democracy.

The aim of the event is to bring together anyone who might care about 
technology or local democracy in any way, whether that is robots and 
home made rockets or tenants and resident associations and local history 
societies. We want to give people a chance to talk about what they care 
about, learn new ways of looking at things, and maybe come up with new 
ways to get things done for themselves in their neighbourhoods.

There is some more information about the previous event and the next one 
here:

http://huddersfieldsocial.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/upside-down-democracy/

and here

http://huddersfieldsocial.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/all-sorts-of-technology-and-local-democracy-part-two/ 


There is no plan for these events other than to see where they lead, but 
something that would help them go in an interesting direction I think is 
an awareness of the history, principles and practice of open source.

So I was wondering if there was anyone from the Huddersfield Linux group 
who would give a short talk to a small group of people, just explaining 
what open source is, why and where it comes from.

This would be for an interested general audience rather than an expert 
audience but more valuable for that perhaps, and certainly not a 
difficult crowd - it will be a small group of people in the cafe bar of 
the Media Centre on Northumberland Street, so no need for any serious 
preparation, just a general introduction and overview would be great.

Would couldn't offer a fee I'm afraid (nobody is getting paid for any of 
their involvement) but I'd certainly be very happy to buy several pints 
or cups of tea, and there will be some sandwiches as the event.

It's on Thursday 24th from 5.30 till 7.

Many thanks for your time
Andrew