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>>For SWFox, there is no victim and it has been and most likely always will be an attempt by
>>folks to continue to provide a place to learn and meet people who otherwise you would
>>never have the opportunity to know in person not to mention the knowledge sharing that
>>goes on outside of the conference sessions.
>That's it exactly. We've said this since day one: the real purpose of going to a conference
>is networking: making new friends or renewing acquaintances.
>One other thing I should point out: if SWFox goes away, probably so do the white papers
>it produces. Few people are going to spend the 40 hours it takes to write one without
>having a conference to present it at.


James 4:15 (Lord willing)....

The Liberty Software Foundation will provide an online venue to allow presentations and publication for not only white papers, but instructional videos, even teaching classes in various disciplines. The people who participate in LibSF's work will do so because they desire to help and grow people's knowledge, and to do so because they themselves have been blessed with the ability to acquire that knowledge in their lives. They will want to help other people grow and achieve more from that which they have to give.

So long as I am able to create digital content, this will be the goal and motto of LibSF:
In God's sight, we've come together.
We've come together to help each other.
Let's grow this project up ... together!
In service and Love to The Lord, forever!

See LibSF Community Bees at the bottom: http://www.libsf.org/projects/


>Tamar, I, and several other speakers generally make our white papers freely available some
>time after the conference (in my case, at doughennig.com). If I didn't have SWFox or the
>German DevCon to present these sessions at, I really wouldn't have much incentive to write
>them. And the sad fact is that if we as organizers made all of the white papers available
>as a package right after the conference, it's likely fewer people would attend, even for
>the networking, because they could save the expense by just downloading the white
>papers. So, all free white papers = conference dies = no more white papers.

The Liberty Software Foundation will produce instructional videos, white papers, even teaching classes, on the various materials and disciplines we've been blessed to know and master. LibSF will make all of them free for download, and without limitation or restriction (except as it relates to maintaining the content in a type of creative commons).

Our goals will be growing people's knowledge, helping people grow, and doing so because we have been blessed with the skills we possess. We will do it out of love for our fellow man, and a desire to improve this world by fostering this love amongst all the people within our communities. No barriers. No closed doors. An open exchange of information simply because we have knowledge and desire to share.

>Doug