[Liverpool] GNU/Linux Netbook workshops in Liverpool

[Richard Smedley]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 11:33 +0000, Andrew Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:58:04PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote:
> > I wonder what day/time would be best? Perhaps 2pm to 8pm 
> > on a week day, to capture the largest X-section of
> > free time?

> This is a real sticky point, midweek you risk people being unable to 
> attend due to work commitments, and at the weekend you have people's 
> lives to contend with, most people want to avoid the weekends as it 
> collides with the little free time they have available.

Tricky, thus my 2pm-8pm suggestion to capture daytime, post-work,
& evening people in the city centre :-)

> If it's a midweek affair then it'll be best in the later part of the 
> week, I've noticed that events scheduled on Monday and Tuesdays can 
> suffer low attendance due to the "CBA" factor (can I be arsed going?).

Make it Wednesday, and after their netbooks are done they
can come to Small Steps... ;-)

> I think we've got the basis of something good here and personally i'm 
> psyched up about doing this type of event.

Great. I see Chester LUG are interested too. Just need
to ask Mcr Free Software, & we have a regional event :-)

> If needed I can setup a mailing list on the livlug server to organise 
> this in, that way we wont have to cross post between the various local 
> tech groups, just invite everyone to the list.

Good idea. Sign me up. Now we just need a hashtag.
How about NWnetbook ?

Cheers,

 - Richard

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