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

[Tony Hughes]

Hi Mike

Sounds like it could be a good thing to be involved with given most of us
in the club use Linux in one form or another either on the Raspberry pi,
phones or even our PC. Oh and we did used to be a LUG ;-)

Seriously I hope we could be involved in this and spread the word about
Linux and how it can be used in many ways, such as rescuing old PC's, the
Raspberry Pi and day to day computing needs.

Tony
On 18 Nov 2015 09:14, "M Hewitt" <admin at pcrecycler.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Folks-
>
> Are any of the LUG members interested in doing this?
>
> Mike
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
> To: admin at pcrecycler.co.uk, lugmaster at covlug.org.uk,
> cowleylibrary at gmail.com,
> info at iwlug.org.uk, aura.yoda at gmail.com, daniel at manlug.org,
> contact at bristol.lug.org.uk, lugmaster at chesterlug.org.uk,
> rugby-owner at mailman.lug.org.uk, linux at soslug.org
>
>
> 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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>
> Mike Hewitt
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