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Email on 19 October 2006:

This afternoon I met with Ushi Reiter from servus.at, the art server in Linz (http://www.servus.at), and Rubia Salgado from MAIZ, an organization of and for migrant women in Upper Austria (http://www.maiz.at), and we have a proposal to make:

We would like to invite /etc 2007 to take place in Linz, Austria, jointly hosted by servus.at and MAIZ.

In addition, when I was in Berlin in September I had the pleasure of meeting Tatiana Wells in person, and we talked about the possibility of /etc also taking place at the same time in Brazil, so we that we can try to connect. I hope to hear from Tati soon about how much interest she has found in Brazil, but the Brazilian women in Linz are very excited and enthusiastic in any case.

What servus.at/MAIZ can offer:

Some of you probably know Ushi Reiter from faces, she is now the program director at servus.at, where she is doing a fantastic job organizing workshops and presentations (including the wonderful DIY sextoys workshop with Orit and Carla from Barcelona:
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with artists and free software. servus.at can provide a good
infrastructure, know-how and a framework.

MAIZ can provide lots of energy, a broad range of skills, space and some equipment. They now do all of their work (except bookkeeping - seems to be a wide-spread problem) using free software and want to switch to free software for their job-training courses now as well. They are going to launch a new online magazine on Saturday, so I can post the link then. The MAIZ women come from all over the world, but there is an especially strong Brazilian group.

The best time for /etc 2007 to happen in Linz would be in early July. Is that a good time for everyone?

Please let me know what you think,
Aileen