[Blackpool] Fwd: Linux Presentation Day in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

[M Hewitt]

Hi Folks-

Are any of the LUG members interested in doing this?

Mike
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From: Hauke Laging <hauke.laging at linux-presentation-day.de>
Date: 17 November 2015 at 00:53
Subject: Linux Presentation Day in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
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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" – 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
(altogether) eight locations. In July we started to find interested
organizations in other cities, first limited to Germany but we expanded
that to Austria and Switzerland. The second event (the first outside
Berlin but also organized by BeLUG) was last Saturday (November, 14th).
82 locations in 75 cities in three countries participated (not all on
that day, though). I am still collecting the visitor numbers. Most media
have ignored this event thus wen had only 700 visitors in the 34 cities
which have already reported their number. Two new Linux User Groups have
been founded.

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).


CU

Hauke
(Mr. Hauke Laging)
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