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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Dear Catarina, dear all:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Here is just to let you know how incredibly glad I am / we are here in Europe about these developments!</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The initiative for the Vienna Summit came from the very notion that Open Hardware needs a social covenant creating procedures and standards.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">And its good to see that your efforts could reverberate fast and meaningful in more corners of the world.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Its also good to see Marcin co-lead the effort, he has a great vision that needs to be merged with the holistic authenticity of living communities.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">I was instrumental twice in bringing him over to Europe, back in 2004 at Oekonux 3 and 2009 with the help of Barbara Pitschmann (+) of the Subversive Fair.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">We all felt that something important was going to come out of OSE and likes, but this latest step marks a real transition beyond my wildest expectations.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Seems this is a time of real breakthroughs. Just a fortnight ago RunRev succeeded kickstarting LiveCode to become the free and open HyperCard of the 21st century,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">I am definitely sure that this is the ideal interface building kit to any type of electronically driven hardware, allowing every user to embed complex automation of his / her own needs into the control decice, which will be a mobile phone, tablet or PC. Hopefully we will soon see the first control devices as Open Hardware, too.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">What really stroke me, though, was that a hardcore commercial startup like RunRev decided to at least partially leave the path of "intellectual property" to create a software commons and thrive with it.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">So we can really build on this momentum, and we plan to also focus on small and medium businesses to start engaging in Open Hardware developments.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Please make sure that one or more contributors from the Jam come to Europe to report about the results. The timing is incredibly favorable.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">you can drop me a line or you also look at our call and fill it in:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=369%3Avienna-open-source-hardware-summit-2013-call-for-participation&catid=13%3Aprogramm&Itemid=88" target="_blank">http://www.linuxwochen.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=369%3Avienna-open-source-hardware-summit-2013-call-for-participation&catid=13%3Aprogramm&Itemid=88</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">looking forward to see your achievements and meet you here in Vienna! Already we have a number of exciting guests, and during & after the summit we plan for a Global Villages Innovation Camp, bringing some of our rural innovation centers together.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Franz Nahrada</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Global Villages Network</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Vienna Austria</font></div>
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