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

[Dave]

Can also show the things like TV & DVR that run Linux these days (The
Humax Freesat & Freeview boxes are all Linux under the covers)
and as we can get the source code we can reprogram them, or just
download precompiled updates, to do our own thing - like run a
file/webserver on the DVR so you can remote view the recorded TV shows.

Even my 16 year old car stereo runs Linux :-)

With the "internet of things" - most of these things run a very basic
Linux/busybox install to provide the control.

So could demo all these things and how you can program them yourself to
respond to your actions.


DP

On 18/11/2015 12:37, Tony Hughes wrote:
> 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)
>> --
>> Hotline für den Linux Presentation Day: 030 / 55579620 (13–23 h)
>>     mobil: 0176 / 7482 7253 (13–23 h)
>>
>> XMPP (Chat mit OTR): linux-presentation-day at jabber.ccc.de
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Mike Hewitt
>>
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