Penguin Day - Toronto 2004

I spent the day yesterday at the first ever Penguin Day in Toronto (fourth in the world so far), an event organized to bring open source developers and not-for-profit technology support staff together to discuss the range of issues, options, challenges and opportunities we all face in using Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS). A wiki was built for the event (provided by Co-op Tools), which allowed participants with wireless laptops to document the proceedings in real time, and which continues to allow the rest of us to update and refine site contents after the fact — see Penguin Day Toronto to view/edit the wiki in its current form.

Penguin Day was started in Philadelphia in March 2004 by Aspiration, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI), the LINK Project, and the Advocacy Project. For information on how to set up a Penguin Day in your city, send an email to Katrin Verclas — she'll be happy to help you help Penguin Day expand its reach.