[Bradford] Fwd: lugmaster Digest, Vol 365, Issue 1

[John R. Hudson]

Ought to be a theme for the IT stuff before then.

John
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On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 14:30 +0100, d.carpenter wrote:
> D'oh, try again
> 
> Software Freedom Day:
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/
> 
> but really I was just posting because we have had discussions about
> doing 'public' events in the past. I'm not saying we should do one,
> but I thought the experience of 'Nick' at some LUG or other was quite
> interesting.
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> On 13 August 2013 14:29, d.carpenter <d.carpenter at virgin.net> wrote:
> > Sorry, Software Freedom Day is here:
> >
> > On 13 August 2013 13:50, Martyn Ranyard <martyn at theendofhistether.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Sounds interesting but no url or location.
> >>
> >> On 13 Aug 2013 13:48, "d.carpenter" <d.carpenter at virgin.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dick and I get messages on the lugmaster list at times. Thought people
> >>> below might find the following interesting:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    1. Re: Software Freedom Day 2013 - Saturday September 21st
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At last year's event we had about 120 visitors of all ages, but with a
> >>> pleasing number of young families. Here are some thoughts about how it
> >>> went.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Activities that went down well included:
> >>>
> >>> * Scratch workshop to design a game (lesson plan from Code Club)
> >>> * Arduino workshop with a variety of projects to try (run by Garry Bulmer)
> >>> * Raspberry Pi room - half a dozen Pis for visitors to try
> >>> * Arduino-based drum kit
> >>> * Music creation with MIDI instruments
> >>> * Large Twitter wall scrolling SFD tweets from around the world
> >>> * Assortment of general access Ubuntu machines for visitors to check out
> >>> * Linux users and developers from credativ and OpusVL (two Rugby-based
> >>> FOSS business consultancies) on-hand to answer questions and
> >>> demonstrate software
> >>> * Coverage in local press
> >>>
> >>> * Great venue with plenty of space and rooms for specific activities
> >>> * Refreshments - hot food and drinks
> >>> * Several planning meetings in preceding months
> >>> * Preinstallation of machines by a local school's ICT club
> >>> * SFD T-shirts for volunteers sponsored by credativ, OpusVL and
> >>> Sunfield Technologies
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2) Activities that could be improved:
> >>>
> >>> * At future events we'd also have a screen at the entrance with a map
> >>> of activities
> >>> * lanyards/namebadges prepared well in advance
> >>> * Setting up the venue completely the day(s) before the event. Even
> >>> having only a few setup tasks to do on the day can eat into valuable
> >>> time.
> >>> * Getting the word out even earlier
> >>> * Using the event to launch other events/schemes that run through the year
> >>> * Getting more local schools to attend - we've been surprised at how
> >>> little interest there has been to date from them
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Nick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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