The say it is no spam :-) The are not listmembers so the will not get the responds.

Walter

Quim Gil wrote:

Please forward this message to the WikiMedia project cordinator or anyone assuming such role. This is not spam, is a real message addressed to the core WikiMedia developers. Thank you!

Quim Gil http://interactors.coop

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Subject: Invitation: how will be MediaWiki in 2004? From: Quim Gil qgil@interactors.coop Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:24:28 +0100 To: wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate indirectly in a speech that we will offer in Barcelona on December 9th to 700 Internet related professionals. This will happen in the context of the Next'04 - http://www.infonomia.com/eventos/next04/ . This is one of the main & classic Internet events in Spain and it has a very special format: 10 selected speakers have 5 minutes each to explain which they think will be the most relevant fact of the next year, and why.

Our speech will bet for the consolidation of free software as an option known and recognized out of the usual specialized spheres, gaining attention from the media, businesses, institutions and society. We believe that this will happen partially thanks to projects like yours and this is why we want to include you in our speech.

We ask you just for some lines explaining the main developments your project is plaining to release next year and how can this affect its context, the users and also the similar projects developed as proprietary software. This last element will help the audience of the event (mainly MS Windows / Mac users) to have references and understand by themselves how close these free software developments are related to their needs and their work.

We ask you to send those lines to next04@interactors.coop. There is a dummy example in http://interactors.coop/next04/ (sorry but this working website is only in Spanish). Here we will also publish the other answers we are receiving.

We will enhance the speech with screenshots, taking advantage from the fact that the venue has a cinema screen. We wont get into details about the screenshots, they will serve as background images in order to help the audience to visualize the concept of "free software" that may sound too abstract to many of them. The idea is to obtain this surprise effect so usual between Linux newcomers: "But it looks just like Windows?!". If you want that we add your screenshots please send them to us, preferably at 1024x768. Or you can just send us the URLs and we make the captures, as you prefer.

We hope that you find this experience interesting. We'll see how the experiment turns out and thank you very much in advance for your participation.

Looking forward for your answer,