Re: [LUG] Linux Presentation Day

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, 22:29ÂJoseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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From: JohnW <slug7of9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: [Surrey] Linux Presentation Day

Date: 3 December 2015 12:19:22 GMT

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Subject: [admin] [Feedback] Linux Presentation Day in Germany, Austria,
and Switzerland
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:29:38 +0000
From: hauke.laging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: admin@xxxxxxxxxx

Hauke Laging sent a message using the contact form at
https://lug.org.uk/contact.

Hello,

I am a member of the board of the Berlin Linux User Group (BeLUG, a
non-commercial association). About a year ago I had an idea for a new kind of
Linux event which should be targeted at people who don't know Linux yet and
which should be very easy to organize. We call this the "Linux Presentation
Day" Ãââ not very German but we intended from the beginning to expand this
beyond Germany after some time. Here is an English summary:

http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/

On May, 9th and 12th we had the first event, limited to Berlin but at eight
locations. The second event (the first outside Berlin but also organized by
BeLUG) was on November, 14th. 79 locations in 72 cities in three countries
participated (not all on that day, though). I am still collecting the visitor
numbers; we had more than 1,300 visitors in the 57 cities which have already
reported their number. Two new Linux User Groups have been founded. Most
media (IT and general) have ignored this event though but with repetition,
more cities, more countries and better servicing the press this should
improve quickly.

Now we have started to look for organizations abroad and were more than
surprised when we were told that the Italians have been doing something very
similar for 15 years...!

http://www.linuxday.it/

So my first question is: Is there something similar in the UK already?

If not then I am looking for a few organizations (LUGs, similar associations,
companies, schools, universities, ...) which are interested in such an event
and might participate in the LPD 2016.1 and use their experience from that
for organizing it as a nationwide event for LPD 2016.2.

The Linux Presentation Day is twice per year. The event is quite easy to
organize and the number of people we want to reach is huge thus once per year
seems too few. Two per year is not even the event limit but the media limit
(there may be more events which the nationwide media would not be informed
about).

The date for the next event (LPD 2016.1) is April, 30th (Saturday). The date
for 2016.2 has not been discussed yet but it will probably in November or the
Italian date (October, 22th).

I will be giving a talk about the LPD (in English) at the 32C3 in Hamburg on
December, 28th. Maybe some of you will be there.

We have registered linux-presentation-day.org.uk.

CU

Hauke
(Mr. Hauke Laging)

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