Help Support GNOME in South America

["Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation" <director gnome org>]

Greetings,

Last month, GNOME Foundation sponsored the successful GNOME Summit at
MIT. With the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC)
held annually in Europe, we are now trying to encourage regional
events in other parts of the world.

The first "Forum GNOME" will take place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil from 
November 11 to 12 featuring, among many talented speakers from Brazil, 
Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and the US, are Federico Mena-Quintero,
German Poo Caaman~o and Jon 'Maddog' Hall. <forumgnome.com.br>

While GNOME Foundation has received financial support for this event
from CELEPAR and Novell, we have received many requests from young
developers and teachers from telecenters who are in need of travel
subsidy to participate.

The purpose of Forum GNOME is to:
-1- provide local GNOME developer training
-2- demonstrate the success of networks using the GNOME desktop,
    (telecenters in Sao Paolo alone have over 400,000 users of GNOME) 
    for government and businesses
-3- build a cooperative GNOME user and developer base in Brasil and 
    neighboring South American countries.  

You may support this effort with a contribution today at
<http://gnome.org/friends/> or by sending a check to:

GNOME Foundation
Eight Cambridge Center - 5th Floor
Cambridge, MA  02142

GNOME Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and
all donations are tax-deductible in the USA.

Thank you in advance for your support.  

tim

Timothy Ney
Executive Director
GNOME Foundation