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

Mark Turner replicant.mark at gmail.com
Tue May 21 13:04:17 UTC 2019


I will be happy to host another "Scrap and Salvage Day" in my back garden
in August, Home Brew, Vegan BBQ etc. Teenagers welcome too ;)

Mark

On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 10:25, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually I saw that link but never remembered to set time to check it
> cheers for reminding :-)
>
> Also FWIW when I say "a short skit" I do mean something like 2min long, to
> perform ad-hoc "guerilla theatre"-like :-p
>
> // Sent from a mobile device. Brevity and typos may transpire
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2019, 10:05 Thomas Kluyver, <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> Summer is upon us, and locals know what that means: the Festival is
>> around the corner! `(*cheers*|*groans*)`
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> But here's a mad idea for a different activity...
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ;-)
>>
>>
>> Tai
>>
>>
>> PS - this was going to be in the main email, but I thought better than to
>> burden that thing with too much guff...!
>>
>> ===
>> Tai Kedzierski
>> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
>>
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