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

[Tai Kedzierski]

That would be great to do too - Vegan nature of the BBQ noted!

I'll leave that with you when July/August rolls around then, let us know :-)

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On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 14:04, Mark Turner <replicant.mark at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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>>>
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