[LUNI] Chicago Free and Open Source Conference

[Andrew Close]

On 8/2/07, Roberto Serrano <ohrock at gmail.com> wrote:
> The "Uber" discussion became Flourish....
>
> Most of the people that where pushing for that where UIC LUG members - as
> you know - so when the interest from most of the community was not
> materializing, we took it upon ourselves to make something happen.  Flourish
> was the result.
>
> We are going for another run this coming April.  We are hoping to have a
> bigger audience and go from 180 overall to about 300.  But, we are not
> increasing the scope of the event because we lack man-power - we are planing
> to have around 14 activities for 2 days, same as this year.
>
> If  we get more help, like I suggested, maybe we could do a third day with a
> focus on the desktop.

Roberto,

i just just checked out the previous Flourish website
(http://www.flourishconf.com/).
have you guys already started planning for 2008?  do you have a
separate mailing list/wiki/etc?
i don't "remember" if i saw a posting on LUNI last year regarding
volunteers/donations, but i bet there are ppl on list that would be
interested in helping out.