[HLUG] Graham offered to reach out to H.Comp.Club and try the H Council web space.

[Rodney]

It was Rod, not Graham. Graham was not present at the meeting.

Rod

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> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:58:16 +0100
> From: "dicegeorge at hotmail dot com" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
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> yesterday we were talking about 3 making 3 exhibition boards
> to be a triangular stand or on 3 walls,
> 1) Free Open Sourse software - openoffice.org, firefox, thunderbird, gnucash 
> etc
> 2) Why? Philosophy of open source - reasons why to use it
> 3) OSes : Ubuntu, redhat, android, lubuntu, mint, puppylinux, dual boot, 
> macs, windows etc
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> From: "info at lifespacedesign.co.uk" <info at lifespacedesign.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] 3 exhibition boards?
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> Actually 4 is better.
> ?
> Think minimum content
> Think wishlist
> Think priorities.
> ?
> I promise to write up the notes from yesterdays meet real soon now...
> ?
> Pete H@
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> On 24 June 2010 at 16:58 dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
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>> yesterday we were talking about 3 making 3 exhibition boards
>> to be a triangular stand or on 3 walls,
>> 1) Free Open Sourse software - openoffice.org, firefox, thunderbird, gnucash
>> etc
>> 2) Why? Philosophy of open source - reasons why to use it
>> 3) OSes : Ubuntu, redhat, android, lubuntu, mint, puppylinux, dual boot,
>> macs, windows etc
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>> ~? [g]? ~? [george]? ~
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> From: "info at lifespacedesign.co.uk" <info at lifespacedesign.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] 23.6.2010
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> Notes from HLUG meeting 24.6.2010
> @ Point4, Hereford
> 
> The meeting mostly talked around the proposal to do something for 
> 
> INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE FRREDOM DAY
> Saturday September 18th. this year.
> 
> If not you, who ? If not now, when ?
> 
> We divided the task into four areas
> People
> Venue
> Activities
> Publicity
> 
> People. 
> We are agreed that if less than 5 are able to commit to being available
> between 10 am and 3 pm we should not do an active event but should focus instead
> on an unstaffed exhibition.
> 
> So everyone, question 1 is who is able to be there for all or part of the time.?
> Please indicate the probability of commitment on a scale of 1 ( I expect to be
> attending my own funeral) to 5 ( This is the most important thing I've done in
> my life). If only available for part of the time don't hold back !
> 
> Venue 
> depends on if we do an activity or an exhibition ( see above). We are
> pursuing contacts with a variety of possible sites in the middle of Hereford
> including All Saints which we agreed is an optimum location for an activity day.
> If anyone reading this has access to another similar venue, such as an empty
> shop or street front office premises please let us know asap!
> 
> The fall back position, to do an unstaffed exhibition, allows everyone to
> participate in it's creation. It too needs venues; we shared ideas of it moving
> around the county through libraries and schools.
> For ISWFD we would like it to be in an empty shop in High Town, connections
> needed!
> 
> Exhibition requirements.
> We agreed that a basic set up would be a stand alone island display with content
> on 4 faces at a height to be easily read standing.Think in terms of A1 flip
> chart size on each face, which could be made up of four A3 modules ( easy size
> to print etc).
> 
> The same display could then be deployed behind an activity table if we are able
> to do that.
> 
> Display content; we agreed that it needs to include as a minimum;
> Free and OS software philosophy
> Cross platform free apps - OO.org, Ffox, Gimp etc
> Linux and distros ( the family tree?)
> Some how-to on installs eg dual boot, live discs, magazine discs, USB virtual...
> 
> This is something which everyone can contribute to, remember mainly that it
> needs to be understood by ordinary computer users full of FUD; personal stories
> of how you became a user are as valuable as displays about using your favourite
> DTP suite.
> Obviously if it can be made to look really cool graphically using OS
> tools....Pete offered to co-ordinate content.
> 
> Branding can be done from the material Jools and Pete did last year.
> 
> We agreed to press forward with this with ISWFD as the latest date for
> completion. Pete agreed to take on physical creation of the display
> island/panels. George offered some ready made and Jools similarly may have
> access to some. If anyone in HLUG is able to offer suitable panels on
> semi-permanent loan then we can consider having either more than one exhibit or
> more different panels. We want this to look as glossy as we can.
> 
> Activity
> Given enough bods for an activity day, apart from talking to public about FOSS
> Pete offered to demonstrate installs ( and give away linux PC's). Participants
> may wish to consider bringing their own Linux machines as demonstrators.Jools is
> going to contact Cannonical for Ubuntu CD's, but again volunteers welcome to
> take on the other big players and try for some install media. Co-ordinate
> through Jools so we don't duplicate effort on this! Anyone from corporate Linux
> watching this bulletin board....we could also use existing display materials
> even if it comes with corporate branding - as long as it's FOSS !( even old
> stuff). Apart from Distros there is the Free Open Disc with cross platform apps
> ( it's a DVD not a CD).
> As a last resort we considered ways and means to make our own media; we can if
> we have to.
> 
> Publicity
> We agreed that this is mission critical; without it there's no point !
> Jools will Register HLUG on the ISWFD website and contact local radio stations
> and Community first.
> Pete ditto Transition and Green Groups, Print media.Cultivate other media
> contacts.
> Sarah will look into schools and AWM
> Graham offered to reach out to H.Comp.Club and try the H Council web space.
> 
> Start thinking about suitable sites for posters for mid August onwards.
> 
> Do we have anyone in this group with experience of using web based social
> networking to create interest in events ? Or willing to learn how to do it?
> (This would also possibly be the most effective for the target demographics?)
> 
> Sorry if I've missed anything, fell free to make additions.
> Pete H@
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