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Invite you to Koumbit annual general meeting 2011 - Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Dear members and friends of Koumit,

We would like to invite you to our annual general meeting, to be held on Sunday, December 4th, 2011.

5@7 Koumbit with ARTUNG! "ceci n'est pas une pub, c'est de l'art"

Date and time: 
Friday, 4 November 2011 - 5:00pm

Come join the Koumbit team tomorrow, November 4th at Bar Populaire for our monthly 5@7. Our guests are Artung !, who will show us the short films they made of their action "ceci n'est pas une pub, c'est de l'art".

A brief recap of recent events:

Koumbit 5@7: Non-Violent Education and Communication

Date and time: 
Friday, 3 June 2011 - 5:00pm

Koumbit presents a new projection of the film "Quels enfants allons nous laisser à notre planète?". This documentary by Anne Barth follows a progressive French primary school that has adopted alternative approaches to learning and communicating: non-violent communication, conflict resolution, and cooperative pedagogy

Koumbit 5@7: Free as in graphic design!

Date and time: 
Friday, 6 May 2011 - 5:00pm

Friends, designers, videographers, photographers and artists of all kinds: the next Koumbit 5@7 is dedicated to you! We'll be talking free and open source graphics software, and more specifically about the upcoming Libre Graphics Meetings with the organising team. The 2011 LGM will take over Montreal from the 10th to the 13th of May.

Koumbit's Drupal Trainings, Back This Spring

This spring, Koumbit is offering a new series of Drupal trainings. These trainings will empower Drupal users, developers and administrators to make full use of emerging technologies in the Drupal world.

Three trainings are offered in French. English sessions could eventually be organised depending on interest.

Space is limited so reserve a spot as soon as possible!

The trainings will take place at Ecto or at Koumbit.

French courses:

Social Media for Non-profits

Want to learn more about social media and use it more effectively in your organisation?

We recently ran a workshop to help organisations better use social media to reach people in their campaigns.

February 10, 2011:

Koumbit takes action for transparency and for the right to information

Koumbit has been hosting a mirror of the WikiLeaks website[1] and a Tor[2] privacy relay since December 29th, 2010. Building on our history of showing support[3] for online transparency and freedom of expression, we are now taking action. This short text explains why.