[HLUG] Software Freedom Day

[info at lifespacedesign.co.uk]

Hi Matt,
 
Do you want to bat this around in piratepad? I am copying your email and my
response across.
 
http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is

My first responses are;
Your presence would be most appreciated and valued to bring a larger
business/organisational user knowledge.
In terms of activity on the specific day, I doubt such a focused seminar is
appropriate unless we can generate a client base for it in advance; so you know
how many are likely to turn up at a specific time. In the bigger picture I think
reaching out to those you are addressing with this is among the most important
and potentially far reaching tasks we can undertake, notably in the education
sector.
 

> I've been thinking about how I can best contribute to this and - if
> others think it is worth it and can drum up the publicity (marketing is
> not one of my strong points!) - I'd be more than happy to deliver a
> seminar on large-scale (50 nodes or more) deployment of Linux Systems
> using Puppet, Cobbler and Cucumber.
>
> The ideal target audience for this would be schools, FE/HE Institutes,
> councils and any organisation that deploys and manages over 50 servers
> in a single datacentre.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether this would be worth
> presenting or not?
>
> I'm planning to be at SFD all day anyway to man stalls/hand out CDs etc,
> I just thought that it might be of interest to some local organisations
> to see the power of Open Source (and the fact that you can easily deploy
> an entire cluster of servers within an hour if you configure the systems
> correctly!).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Matt