[EdLUG] participation in the Europe-wide Linux Presentation Day

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

I think this is something we could be involved with.  Perhaps anyone
interested in helping with organisation could have quick meet up to go
through the materials and to decide how we would make it work locally.  Any
suggestions when and were?

Jan

On 14 July 2016 at 03:12, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2016, 18:36:50 CEST schrieb Edinburgh Linux Users
> Group:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you have links to any such events?
>
> these were the two in UK:
>
> http://www.linux-presentation-day.org.uk/#locations
>
> The other event pages are obviously not in English. This is ours at BeLUG
>
> http://www.belug.de/lpd.html
>
> These are the not yet translated considerations on thre national German web
> site:
>
> http://www.linux-presentation-day.de/mitmachen/veranstalter/#inhalt
>
>
> > I would like to see where the events
> > are held and how they are structured.
>
> The LPD events are quite different, depending on the capabilities,
> resources
> and interests of the respective hostinmg organisation. The LPD is not a
> kind
> of brand in the sense that you can expect a certain kind of event and we
> try
> to spread this kind of event.
>
> The LPD brand is used for on the one hand getting more attantion and on the
> other hand as a fingerpost. We are telling the public where there are some
> nice
> people who show them someting about Linux and answer their questions.
>
> So you just think about what you can and would likt to do. In the easiest
> case
> you just put three PCs with different desktop environments somewhere and
> one
> contact person beside each. If you want to invest more effort then you can
> present certain topics of relevance for the target audience or even some
> talks. But I would suggest to start with little effort (so that noone is
> discouraged from the next event) and get some experience with the visitors.
> It's annoying to invest much effort and having to realize that the visitors
> are not really interested in that.
>
> Unfortunately we forgot to shoot a video at the BeLUG events. There is only
> one I am aware of from another (German) location:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm5LSYuM2do
>
>
> CU
>
> Hauke
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>
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