Hello OCLUG, I am Teresa Baldwin, the Community Manager of FOSSLC. We, along with Ottawa U IEEE Chapter, are putting on a open source programmer's conference on August 27th and an OpenStreetMap mapping party on the 28th. We are proud to announce that we are getting speakers like Richard Weait (OSM), Mike Shaver (Mozilla Foundation founder), Christopher "Monty" Montgomery (Ogg/Vorbis creator) and Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation). More information can be found here: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/sc2011 The project that we'd like to propose is thus: we'd like to be able to bring in people that wouldn't otherwise be able to go to the conference. Students, unemployed, or underemployed, who would be helped by going to the conference and learning about the open source tools that are out there and what people are doing with them. We are looking to help cover our costs, as we are serving snacks, lunch and have an evening event at the NAC. If accepted for funding, we would offer a few gratis tickets to OCLUG. Thank you for your time. -- Teresa Baldwin Community Manager, FOSSLC tnbaldwin [ at ] fosslc [ dot ] org