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it's in Wellington New Zealand - 18th Jan to 23rd Jan.

There's still time to submit a speaking proposal to a miniconf:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/miniconfs

There are 3 funding programmes, if you're an open source contributor and need $$$ to get to Wellington for the conference.
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/media/news/89

The Programme is out - checkout the speakers and topics:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule

There's is a partner's programme -- details coming soon.

Accomodation - there's student-style accomodation (which I reccomend) - also 4 star, 5 star, and apartments for groups/families.
This year there are couple and family accomodations available.
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/accommodation

The primary sponsors, who you should all be thinking good thoughts about now, are: Internet NZ and Google....

other sponsors: Catalyst, Canonical, Egressive, 3months, amberDMS, Dreamhost, Ingres, iwantmyname.com.

Who: Alastair, Grant, Tom, Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Martin, Dave, Sigi, Carl

Downloaded Sugar on a Stick Strawberry

Pippy-29 found little problem, can write new but cannot open existing files

Catching up with Martin on school server activity and OLPC

Tim is working on Sahana - emergency management application that can help with finding and linking people together using Sugar/XOs as well as other hardware.

Brenda brought a cool pen called LiveScribe which we all loved playing with

Working on a website for Welly testers to help people find us and what we doing. http://laptop.org.nz - it has pointers to OLPC and Sugar sites, and feeds of our photos and our blogs.

Talked about Software Freedom Day (20 September 2009) and Linux Conference (January 2010). I put in a miniconf proposal for http://www.lca2010.org.nz/ - see it here http://laptop.org.nz/miniconf

Great day!

Wellington testing team

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