[Menai-LUG] Meeting/Seminar

[Kevin Donnelly]

A couple of weeks ago I raised this on these lists.  Anglesey Business Centre 
is willing to do a deal on the room, but I get no vibes re doing anything 
much beyond this.  By a process of inexorable logic, I conclude as follows: 
getting a decent programme needs a decent number of attendees to make it 
worthwhile -> getting a decent number of attendees may be more likely in 
Llandudno/Colwyn Bay -> places there will cost significant amounts of dosh -> 
to cover this I need more attendees -> to do this I need a bigger event.

This is not an entirely welcome conclusion, because it points to (in effect) 
doing a mini-expo, which is a lot of organising, and needs to end up with me 
not being out of pocket.  So it's risky.  The other alternative is to have a 
few presenters making a trip to Anglesey to speak to what may turn out to be 
a limited number of people, which is less risky, but will still take a good 
bit of organising to do right.

So I suppose I'm soliciting responses on whether I should (a) do nothing, (b) 
go for small meeting, or (c) go for larger meeting.

As regards (c), I would be thinking along the following lines:
- venue with exhibition/stand area, presentation area, and "business" area;
- one day, 10am-4pm;
- "stands" to be low-tech; ie FOSDEM or computer fair-style - a table with 
some space around it;
- stands to be free, but donations accepted;
- 4 presentation tracks: business (deployment, office stuff, servers), 
multimedia (edutainment, games, music, etc), home (office suites, email, 
internet, etc), Welsh (software in Welsh, how to get more of it, etc);
- £4 for anyone (£2 if booked in advance), £40 for business track (£20 if 
booked in advance) - these might not be remotely sustainable, so more info is 
needed;
- presenters to have travel expenses paid, and equal share of any profits (if 
I see any!);
- date in October, to give more time for organising and publicity;
- all screens to be running Linux;
- basic (ie no stuff like RAID, or 3D drivers) installations done for ?Ubuntu 
and ?openSUSE, at a fee of £10.

Sounds pretty onerous, but not impossible in theory.

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

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