Dear Hauke / all, what all that you have said I do agree, October in East Anglia, ehh, weather is not on our side for outdoor event. As to my wording I do apologise but unfortunately with two kids, school runs and every day commute it is not likely that I will take on the whole effort of organizing event in Peterborough. I am keen to take on part of organization but it would be nice to have someone to actually say: "yes, lets do it, even if we would have to postpone it or cancel".
I have some experience in organizing events and I do like it. I have told / warned my work colleagues that such event is coming to an office nearby. I would like to setup a little presentation stand in my work so at least few people get to know our favourite OS. Everything can be done / organized - premises, permits, equipment but not single-handedly... Does this change anything? Many thanks Bart 2016-07-17 23:24 GMT+01:00 Hauke Laging via Peterboro < peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk>: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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