free your computer at the atwater library
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently in my role as a board member of the atwater library and computer centre in Montreal; I am trying to help breathe some innovation into the computer centre part, with a focus on social technology and free/open source software. Though I can’t bring any innovation myself, I am trying to get people who can involved, such as Montreal’s free software guru Sylvain Carle and his company interstructure, Montreal’s free software group, FACiL, the cool goings-on at the community wifi group ilesansfil (through mike), the thinking and acting anarchists at Cogitateurs Agitateurs, among others (if you’re interested in “joining” the project let me know - joining can be as little or as much as you would like).
Anyway, the first official event of Atwater’s new life as a cool computer place will happen on Monday Feb 21, at 7pm. Info below:
Free Your Computer! Libérez votre ordinateur!
An Open Seminar on Free and Open Source SoftwareWhere: Atwater Library Auditorium (2nd Level), 1200 Atwater Ave.
When: Monday, Feb. 21st, 2005 from 7:00-8:30 P.M.What is Free Software? Open Source? It’s email, internet, word processing, spreadsheets, website design, graphic manipulation, presentations, audio, video, operating systems…you can get Free Software for all of these applications. Why don’t you try it? This interactive seminar will introduce the hows and whys, and give a brief overview of some of the most popular free software available for your computer. Presented jointly by FACiL-pour l’appropriation collective de l’information libre, and the Atwater Library and Computer Centre.
The seminar will be bilingual.
FREE ADMISSION
et puis en francais:
Une présentation sur les logiciels libres et à code source ouvert
Où: Bibliothèque Atwater et Centre d’informatique, 1200, ave. Atwater
Quand: lundi, le 21 février, de 19H00 à 20H30Qu’est-ce que c’est un logiciel libre? Le courriel, l’Internet, le traitement de texte, les tableurs, la conception de site web, les présentations, les systèmes d’exploitation. C’est aussi la manipulation graphique, l’audio, la vidéo. Il existe des logiciels libres pour toutes ces applications. Vous êtes curieux? Ce séminaire interactif vous présentera les raisons qui pourraient motiver ce choix et vous offrira un aperçu général de quelques-uns des logiciels libres les plus populaires! Présenté par FACIL-pour l’appropriation collective de l’informatique libre, et la Bibliothèque Atwater et Centre d’informatique.
Le séminaire se déroulera en français et en anglais.
ENTRÉE GRATUITE
For more information, click here.
PS if you see any glaring French mistakes pls let me know!
February 2, 2005
Libérez votre ordinateur à la bibliothèque Atwater
Hugh m’informe que le FACIL - pour […]
Pingback by Paquets... :: Libérez votre ordinateur à la bibliothèque Atwater — February 2, 2005 @ 7:55 pm
“Un présentation” = “Une présentation”
“quelques’uns” = “quelques-uns”
sounds cool !
Comment by alexandre — February 3, 2005 @ 8:40 am
alexandre - merci!
Hugh.
Comment by hugh — February 3, 2005 @ 10:38 am
Open Stacks has another podcast out. At the beginning he talks about how a library could use podcasts. One of the things he suggests was to record seminars, presentations, etc. that go on at the library and then put it on the library website as an mp3 so that people could download it (or put it in a blog and make it “podcastable”). Would this be feasible for the seminar at atwater?
Comment by d. — February 3, 2005 @ 4:15 pm
Awesome stuff Hugh. I won’t be able to make that session, but I’ll definitely have to check out the computing centre there at Atwater….
Comment by Nick — February 3, 2005 @ 8:13 pm
Free Your Computer! Liberez votre ordinateur!
Hugh keeps on pushing the boulder. He tells us about a presentation he’s organized between Atwater and FACIL. Free Your Computer! Liberez votre ordinateur! An Open Seminar on Free and Open Source Software Where: Atwater Library Auditorium (2nd Level),…
Trackback by mtl3p — February 3, 2005 @ 9:04 pm
hey danielle, talk about meme or zietgeist or collective unconscious. I thought yesterday to myself, why not record these sessions? and podcast-em? and then I had coffee with oana who organizes the atwater poetry project and she said… why don’t we record the sessions and sell a CD at the end of the yr as a fund raiser? to which I replied, why don’t we do that AND podcast’em AND see if CKUT wants to record & broadcast?
So YES! we plan (vaguely at the moment) to podcast the session, or an edited version of it!
Comment by hugh — February 4, 2005 @ 9:29 am
Go, Hugh, go!
Comment by andre — February 4, 2005 @ 11:23 am
Sounds great, I hope to attend even though I’m already fairly familiar with open source. I’d love to see more libraries doing stuff like this.
Your blog looks just like mine ;)
Comment by lambic — February 4, 2005 @ 1:46 pm
hey lambic, hope you can make it - actually ideal situation is to have half the room filled with people who know about & use free software, and the other half who don’t - the objective is a big exchange of info and community learning etc …all to help those that don,t know about F/OSS get at it. so geeks and non-geeks are welcome!
Comment by hugh — February 4, 2005 @ 3:35 pm
n’t know about F/OSS get at it. so geeks and non-geeks are welcome!” - source: Hugh in a comment on Dose Magazi […]
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