[HLUG] Special Meeting 'Beginners Linux' June 24th, Leominster

[david winterton]

Count me in
On 2 Jun 2015 22:16, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> As previously agreed at discussed at our last LUG meeting last Weds, our
> survey pointed to a strong liking for the topics 'Beginners Linux' and
> 'Linux distro choice', so we will have a special event with both of these
> topics later in the month. Charlie has agreed to host this with help from
> others on the evening. We plan to show how easy it is to install Linux by
> doing this on the evening as part of the event, amongst other topics so it
> will be aimed at real beginners to Linux and Open Source perhaps keen to
> move from Windows, or new to computing entirely.
>
> The plan is to hold this on our normal 4th Wednesday of the month, ie June
> 24th.
>
> We considered holding it in the usual place at the Courtyard, but on
> occasion it can get a bit noisy, so we decided to hold it at another venue
> instead.
>
> The previous event on 'Open source and the professional audio/visual
> environment '
> we held in Leominster at Grange Court went well with great facilities, but
> unfortunately due to a glitch with the lug.org.uk mailing list, no mails
> reminding everyone of the event and on the day itself went out to our
> members so we had a reduced turnout for this reason.
>
> I have emailed the Grange Court folk if we can book the same room last
> time, which was fine for us, not too big and not too small.
>
> All the organisation details for the event I have started on this Etherpad
> here :-
>
> https://pad.odoo.com/p/hlug-note.note-STR1TPSCJR
>
> Ie event details, publicity, what's happening on the night, etc etc.  This
> is meant to be an open and collaborative space to concentrate our plans and
> ideas for the event - so please click the link and help. There is a chat
> facility too
>
> We are looking for *any* help that anyone can provide to help organise the
> event and make it a success both in the prep and during the evening.
> Hopefully we should be able to use the brilliant flashy large touchscreen
> we used last time which worked great with linux too.
>
> If anyone is able to publicise the event to other groups they are part of
> please do. The entry is open to anyone not just LUG members and will be
> subject to a small charge, to cover the hire of the venue only.
>
> Further details to come shortly
>
> Julian
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