Hi Rhys, Awesome opportunity!
On 4 June 2010 13:49, Rhys Morgan <rhysmorgan1...@aol.com> wrote: > This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted > with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu > event. > Sounds like it! > · We have to provide a section dedicated to Educational benefits of > open source software, complete with demonstrations and presentations. There > will be educational representatives attending from around the > Portsmouth/Southampton area as well as a few local councillors. > This sounds bigger than an Ubuntu event, and could probably pull in people from other distros, upstream and other software vendors. > · We have to cover Ubuntu combined with low power consumption > computing aimed at businesses ( but not limited to ). > Sounds like the venue is big enough to cover multiple strands such as this. > Secondly, I have been in a meeting this morning at work with Asrock. In > passing I mentioned the possibility of this event and was greeted with an > offer of sample hardware for the event as well as an array of their cutting > edge hardware releases to help us demonstrate the abilities of Ubuntu. > Free hardware is always nice to have. > · People to give presentations > I'm sure we can put a call out to the community, business types and Canonical. > · People with sufficient knowledge to control the educational > section of the event. > > · General help with the on-the-day event. > I suspect you'll have plenty of people offering help here. > Any other suggestions/helpful hints or offers of help please let me know. > Figure out the date first. Other things will fall into place once that's done. Having the venue already is a great start. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
