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<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi
Everyone,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please pardon the
slightly off topic message. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm hosting a free
training mini-conference on January 10th (4-7pm) at Carleton University
(Technology & Training centre) called Open Source Bootcamp (OSBC).
The event is sponsored by Carleton, Talent First, Carleton's Career Services
organisation, and Ingres. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>OSBC is designed to
help people learn the skills needed to work with open source. Each OSBC session
will have a theme. OSBC1's theme is the bare basics such as make, shell
scripting, desktop applications (email/IM/etc.), and more. Future themes include
web development, the Eclipse framework, development tools, programming with
threads, secure programming, and more.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Talks are short...
22 minutes with a 5 minute question & answer period. Complex topics will be
broken up into multiple talks. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's free food,
free stuff, and more.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>All are welcome.
Students get priority if we overflow the 80 person room. If you're interested in
coming, please email me off list to register.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218203523-18122007>Thank
you,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Andrew</DIV>
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class=218203523-18122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>p.s. I'm happily
accepting volunteers to speak about a given topic. There's a nice gift
for speakers. If you're interested, please contact me off
list.</FONT></SPAN></o:p></P></DIV>
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