[EdLUG] An idea for August in lieu of regular meetup

[Thomas Kluyver]

Did you see the 'Journey to Thelio' story (https://thel.io/#/ ) that was produced by System 76? It was done as a promo for an open source desktop they were releasing, but it's similar in making a dramatic story around the benefits of open source.

On Mon, May 20, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
> Hi all
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> Summer is upon us, and locals know what that means: the Festival is around the corner! `(*cheers*|*groans*)`
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> As per EdLUG tradition, August would normally be a BBQ event some week-end instead of the regular meetup. Most places are fully crammed due to the Festival, and we would probably only find a pub way out that would allow us to meet for free.
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> But here's a mad idea for a different activity...
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> If anybody is of a thespian persuasion, writing and performing a short play/skit around GNU/Linux and FOSS could be fun. Perhaps something about Linux magically giving old computers a new lease of life ; or the woes of software as a service. Very niche, but isn't that part of the group's very foundations?
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> We could then do it in the streets amongst unsuspecting user^[^[^[tourists, and garner some interest in a novel fashion... Business cards to the website, to a page pointing at various websites for more information to be given out at the end of the skit - instead of putting money in a hat, encourage people to take business cards out of it.
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> Hit me up if you'd want to put a writing & performance team together! Any level of ability is welcome -- for my part, I used to be in school and uni acting groups on-and-off, and have dabbled in writing, at a very amateur level ; I'm sure I can also work a contact or two to try and get a writing/thesp workshop some week-end afternoon.
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> I know this is quite late in the year to be suggesting this ; but whilst there is some idea of advocacy to it, my main goal is to have some theatrical fun ;-)
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> 
> Tai
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> PS - this was going to be in the main email, but I thought better than to burden that thing with too much guff...!
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> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
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