<p dir="ltr">Sounds interesting but no url or location.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Aug 2013 13:48, "d.carpenter" <<a href="mailto:d.carpenter@virgin.net">d.carpenter@virgin.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dick and I get messages on the lugmaster list at times. Thought people<br>
below might find the following interesting:<br>
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1. Re: Software Freedom Day 2013 - Saturday September 21st<br>
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<br>
At last year's event we had about 120 visitors of all ages, but with a<br>
pleasing number of young families. Here are some thoughts about how it<br>
went.<br>
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1) Activities that went down well included:<br>
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* Scratch workshop to design a game (lesson plan from Code Club)<br>
* Arduino workshop with a variety of projects to try (run by Garry Bulmer)<br>
* Raspberry Pi room - half a dozen Pis for visitors to try<br>
* Arduino-based drum kit<br>
* Music creation with MIDI instruments<br>
* Large Twitter wall scrolling SFD tweets from around the world<br>
* Assortment of general access Ubuntu machines for visitors to check out<br>
* Linux users and developers from credativ and OpusVL (two Rugby-based<br>
FOSS business consultancies) on-hand to answer questions and<br>
demonstrate software<br>
* Coverage in local press<br>
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* Great venue with plenty of space and rooms for specific activities<br>
* Refreshments - hot food and drinks<br>
* Several planning meetings in preceding months<br>
* Preinstallation of machines by a local school's ICT club<br>
* SFD T-shirts for volunteers sponsored by credativ, OpusVL and<br>
Sunfield Technologies<br>
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2) Activities that could be improved:<br>
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* At future events we'd also have a screen at the entrance with a map<br>
of activities<br>
* lanyards/namebadges prepared well in advance<br>
* Setting up the venue completely the day(s) before the event. Even<br>
having only a few setup tasks to do on the day can eat into valuable<br>
time.<br>
* Getting the word out even earlier<br>
* Using the event to launch other events/schemes that run through the year<br>
* Getting more local schools to attend - we've been surprised at how<br>
little interest there has been to date from them<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Nick<br>
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