Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2016, 22:17:54 CEST schrieb Bart D via Peterboro: > Earlier this year I did ask you about taking part in an event called LPD.
:-) Didn't know that. > I do wonder if there would be more interested now when Hauke send us > invitation. Usually the effect is the other way round. In Germany about 50% of the LUGs responded (most of them committed to participating) in the first round. And at that time we had nothing to show except for the concept and one Berlin-only event. Now we have Europe's most widespread Linux-event but the response rate abroad is terrible. I just have contacted about 80 LUGs and hackspaces / makerspaces in the UK. That has led to 8 responses (in the broad sense; 2 of them are de facto declarations of participation). And that result is not even especially bad comparing it to other countries. Experience shows that it is easy to find people who perform the event (even from outside a LUG) but noone feels like organising it (that's usually not an LPD-specific phenomenon). Thus I recommend this approach: Noone will object to you organising such an event. So just do it. And keep it so small that you can easily organise it alone. A small first event is preferable anyway. Set up a mailing list for anyone to join who is interested in the organising. Ask separately for people who are willing to organise and those willing to just perform the event on that day. Several events in Germany have been organised by a single person. Create an event page. That need not contain detailed information (location, date, time, agenda) until about two weeks before the event but having an URL to pass on is important. These are the templates (which you need not use, that's just a suggestion): http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/participate/organizer/ examplepage_location.html http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/participate/organizer/ examplepage_conditional_location.html > I would like to go out on the street and show linux to at least few people. That's a rather bad idea (not even considering English weather in October). One German location does it that way and they are satisfied with that but the Italians gave that a try on a big scale (20 cities) and they are not satisfied at all; which doesn't surprise me at all. Funny part: They seem to have tried that due to a misunderstanding of what we are doing here in Germany... 1) You need a permit deom the authorities. 2) You have effort with the transport of PCs, desks, and all the other stuff. 3) You need Internet and power. 4) What you can show is limited. 5) You do meet people who haven't heard of the event but talking to most of them is a waste of time because there may be 1% of the PC users actually interested in learning something about Linux. But people who are not really interested talk to you anyway just because you are there. 6) The people do not get to know your usual location. 7) Dont forget: the weather. If you do not have your own room then it should be easily possible to get one for free or little money. > If anyone would be interested to organize something I can help to organize > something. That's exactly the wrong wording. Now everyone is afraid of responding because then they might end up having to do the work / being regarded as responsible. Of course, if you (like others have done before) try to organise such an event and have to cancel it a week before then that is at any rate better than not trying at all. CU Hauke -- http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/ International phone contact for the Linux Presentation Day: tel:+49-30-55579620 (13:00–23:00, German and English) XMPP (Chat with OTR): linux-presentation-...@jabber.ccc.de OTR: 91626899 1C06F2BD 75EC2441 35C696CE 38F75997
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