[HLUG] SFD 2012 - a few more questions

[Sarah Chard]

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 12:47 +0100, Leo McArdle wrote:

> Hey all!
> 
> I have a few more questions about what Mozilla could do at the event.
> I have a number of ideas, but it would be great if you could help me
> whittle down what's feasible, and what's not, as you know how the
> whole event is going to run a lot better than me.
> 
> I think doing a talk would be great fun, but I'd need to know if a)
> you need/want another speaker, and b) what sort of audience I should
> be targeting my talk at. The security talk in my mind, sounds a little
> techy for the average joe, but then again, it could just be about
> choosing strong passwords, etc. (I have no idea, I'm sure you all have
> more of an idea.) The two talks I had in my mind were a general
> 'Mozilla: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?' talk (which would be
> aimed more at the average-joe kinda audience), or a talk about Firefox
> OS (our soon-to-be released mobile operating system [which is FLOSS,
> obviously]) (which would be more developer and FLOSS enthusiast
> orientated).
> Then again, the Mozilla talk could appeal to everyone, since who here
> knows that Mozilla is a not-for-profit? (it's going to be an
> embarrassingly large number of people, isn't it? :P)

Leo - thanks for offering to speak at the ISFD event - this is the first
event where we are having 2 speakers and knowing the nature of the event
and the type of people who attend 3 speakers would probably be too much.
However it would be great to have you speak at one of our monthly LUG
meetings perhaps in October if you are around - 

> 
> We also have a large collection of videos which would be cool to show,
> and IIRC, there was something about showing videos on the PiratePad...
> (/me goes and adds that to the PiratePad)

That would be good - 

> 
> I also noticed using RBPs to do some workshops with kids. This is
> something we're starting to do a lot in Mozilla, though not
> necessarily with RBPs, and instead of with a programming or scripting
> language, we're teaching people how to write HTML and CSS, with our
> Webmaker [1] project. If you want to find out more about that, click
> the link, but basically, we believe that digital literacy is an
> essential life skill, and part of digital literacy is being able to
> modify and write your own webpages. So it'd be great if this could be
> part of the workshops done.

Can you contact Kevin directly about this - he is organising the
workshops (you should see some replies from him on the list - if not let
me know)

> 
> Yes... I'm still going.
> 
> What would also be fun, for the more techie people there, would be to
> host a 'Make your own Firefox add-on' workshop. It's surprisingly easy
> to do (you just need a little knowledge of JavaScript) and it's rather
> fun! :D

Again - it would be great to fit this in but it's a question of
time/space and type of people who attend - many can only come for a
fairly short time, but again this would be a great one for a HLUG
meeting


> 
> And finally, if all goes to plan, there's going to be some pretty
> awesome Mozilla swag at the event (I might just be talking about
> t-shirts). This could serve as prizes for a competition or quiz. At
> first I thought of a Mozilla-themed quiz, but then again, it could be
> a general FLOSS quiz, or some other kind of competition (such as, who
> can name the most number of Linux distros... I dunno :P)

Yes to this - give-aways always work well - do you want to have a think
about a quiz - as long as it fits in with the SFD agenda it's fine


> 
> Right, that's it. Congratulations if you read through all that, I
> should probably give you some sort of prize... I've got no idea what,
> though.
> I thought I should check with the organisers first, before spilling my
> brains on the PiratePad, but if that's what you want me to do, I'll
> try and somehow condense this all down.

Do add what you intend to do onto the pirate pad as it helps to keep
track of what's happening and who is coming - and apologies for not
getting back to you sooner - life is a bit hectic at the moment - I look
forward to meeting you on the 15th
cheers

-- 

Sarah
ISFD Sept 15 2012 http://piratepad.net/xvthlXqxA2