-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation: 27th May (Saturday) 11AM-4PM Pantoto release; FLOSS for local needs; Food and Music Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 01:01:18 +0530 From: dinesh dinesh@servelots.com To: pantoto@servelots.com CC: cryinfo.blr@crymail.org

Servelots/Janastu invite you to a fun day of

Code Release, Sharing, and Party

on Saturday, 27th of May between 11AM to 4PM at 3354, K.R.Road (Directions on http://servelots.com)

11:00 Release of new version of Pantoto Communities --------------------------------------------------- Pantoto Communities software is designed for communities to manage community knowledge and is developed based on the needs of some of the communities, small enterprises and NGOs who have been using Pantoto. (See http://servelots.com and http://janastu.org).

This release includes: significant internal redesign, user interface and usability improvements (customizability of skins, new default skin, easy content editing, simplification of building custom forms for user input), protection against spam bots, RSS feeds and feed aggregation.

11.30 FLOSS development of products/services for local needs ------------------------------------------------------------ DISCUSSION: If you are interested in or if you are working on developing FLOSS products/services to meet primarily local needs (not necessarily for global market, but more for local communities, NGOs, researchers, etc), please come and share your interests, ideas and work. We are hoping that the discussions would lead to a better appreciation of the importance and the need to cater to local issues, spark new ideas and encourage greater participation and collaboration. People who work on Pantoto, NewsRack, Mapunity.org, and integration of Indic and VoIP tools have confirmed their attendance.

1:00 Lunch ----------

2:00 Music and games --------------------

Music by Dyuthi and friends Open space for participatory games, music, .. (bring game ideas, songs, friends)