| ACDJ eNews: Open Source Workshops and improvements to the Your Voice In House campaign |
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Friends, Just a couple of important items to let you know about. Open Source Workshops The Australian Centre of Democracy & Justice, in Collaboration with Chinchilla Media is pleased to announce a series of workshops to promote open source software and it’s various potential applications in a variety of fields. The world of free, open source and community developed technologies is rapidly expanding, offering massive potential for free and low cost solutions, saving money and supporting collaborative projects run by enthusiasts around the globe. Despite recent widespread adoption of Open Source technologies, the world is still a confusing one, clouded by jargon and stalwart tech heads resenting letting newbies in. The arts and small business worlds could especially benefit from adopting some of the hundreds of tools out there, not only to help frequently tight budgets but to also encourage the work of similarly minded people in a different medium. The workshop intends to guide participants through the pitfalls of adopting open source technology, outlining the problems, difficulties and solutions in a friendly and understandable way, presented by individuals who have been through the same experiences and are knowledgeable in the worlds of art, running small businesses and technology. The workshops are taking place at CERES in East Brunswick and as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival Open Source for NGO’s and Small businesses, CERES Environment park, East Brunswick 8th August 12th September 10th October Visit www.ceres.org.au or email us to register Open Source for Creatives, Digital Fringe, Horse Bazaar 21st September 28th September 5th October Registration opens soon Your Voice In House The Your Voice In House website has recently been upgraded to make contacting your parliamentary representatives even easier. You can now search for an individual member of any Australian parliament by name. As you type, a list of possible matches comes up. All you have to do from there is select the appropriate member and you will be able to see their contact details and send them an email. We have also added the ability to search by portfolio. If you want to contact the relevant minister(s) about a particular issue it is easy to find the relevant minister and shadow minister to contact. Both these improvements mean that you can be more directed in who you are contacting and save yourself a lot of time looking up who to contact whilst freeing up more time for you to do the actual lobbying. We hope you like the improvements. Please feel contact us with any comments on the new site by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Go well, The ACDJ Team |
