[Linux-aus] Request for Grant from Linux Australia for Ubertweak

[Elspeth Thorne]

Date: 2006-09-12

Project Name: Ubertweak, http://ubertweak.org.au

Aim of Project: Ubertweak is a Christian camp for high school kids that 
is run (at present) twice a year in Winter and Spring, and has been 
running since 1996. Our parent organisation is Scripture Union 
Queensland. We give the students a week of computer-related acitivities, 
including exposure to licencing (such as the GPL), open source software 
(they recieve a custom Knoppix Live CD) and many other things. See the 
website for more information (there's quite a lot there!).  Each year 
the students are also given the collected results of the work on camp - 
usually another two CDs and a DVD.  As evidence of the work done on the 
camp, we give packs to our sponsors, usually including the camp manual, 
tshirt, the electronic materials (one to four CDs/DVDs). We also include 
any sponsor's material in the distributed packs that is donated (totes, 
pens, etc). Additionally, we place the sponsor's logo on our flyers and 
advertising material (if desired), and on the website.

Person Responsible for Request: Elspeth Thorne, Director, Spring.

Request: Any sponsorship material is welcome, however, we would 
appreciate assistance with transport costs. We need to transport 
approximately 50 people to the camp site (in Toogoolawah, Queensland) 
from Brisbane. The service we have used in previous years is 
unavailable, so we are using an alternative bus service, which is 
costing us approximately $400 above the budgeted figure. A grant to make 
up this shortfall would be greatly appreciated.