[HLUG] March

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 11:22 +0000, Sarah Chard wrote:
> At the november LUG meeting there was a short discussion about the
> possibility of keeping momentum going from the SFD event by having a
> follow up in March - I mentioned that I thought there was an 'official'
> event day like SFD that we could use as a hook but i couldn't remember
> what it was - it is actually DFD - Document Freedom Day which in 2011 is
> March 30 (a weds) but we could use the 26 march which is  a saturday.
> 
> I would like to organise a day which was a linux and DFD day with a
> drop-in element as we did before for new users but this time with more
> for LUG members ie some workshops, demos' speakers who would interest -
> perhaps pulling in and meeting with users from  further afield (we can
> keep SFD as a day for primarily new users)
> 
> We could also organise some speakers on Document freedom and ODF
> standards - i am interested in this area as without official adoption of
> Open Standards by organisations and government it seems it is very hard
> for larger organisations to switch to OS.
> 
> I don't know if this is too ambitious - or if anyone else is interested
> but do let me know if you are

Sounds great - I'm definitely interested, however I'm speaking at the UK
Unix User Group Annual Conference on the 22nd March, so I'm not too sure
if I'll have the time to help out... :(

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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