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Today's Topics:

1. Re: meetings This saturday (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:46:43 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] meetings This saturday
Message-ID: <555B68F2.2040100@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
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Hi,

Just a reminder for Saturday, sorry I cannot make it this month.

If you want to know how we organized LinuxLive either Chris Horler,
David Fear or Sebastian should be at the KT to give some background on
the LinuxLive event.

On 11/05/15 14:14, Ignacio Jordi Atienza wrote:
> Hey guys, thank you for considering my idea about more structured meetings. A few points I'd like to add to the pot, fwiw:
>
> *Someone mentioned this idea is not new, as there have been LinuxLive events. I've never been to one, maybe it could be better to take it from there, improving what already exists, rather than starting something new from scratch? (If the main problem was "poor promotion", trying out some countermeasure to that for the next event, and improve from there?)
>
> *Re: estimated attendance. Would it be too sci-fi to think of some online micropayment system where those who are going to attend could pay their share in advance? That would give a good scope of how many people would attend, rather than the, as mentioned, always shaky FB estimations (because clicking on an icon is way too easy, and also, some of us are allergic to that kind of services).
>
> *Re: venue. I currently have more time than money, so I offer myself, if there is quorum, to do the inquiries and post here a "report" on the different venues you have listed (Watershed, etc). Hackspace has the advantage that it is close to a train station, right? I also thought of the Central Library, which has a nice no-fuss wifi available. I thought the lack of projectors would be a problem, nice to know that there are 2 available already! :)
>
> The factors to investigate are then, correct me if I'm wrong:
>
> Capacity
> Wifi available
> Projector
> Food/Bar in nearby
> Price
> Means of transportation close
>
>
> *Re: "Speakers". Here is a proposal for a system, version 0.1 very beta: anyone who would like to share something in the meeting could post a "ticket" including 1) title and 2) approximate duration of the speak including Q+A. Joining and tailoring those tickets we would have a program for the session, and also it would give us an idea of how long we have to book the room. The problem here can be that there are either too many speakers, or not enough; if the problem was the second, I have a couple of ideas I could submit myself :)
>
> *Underlying motivations: "Using Linux" is kind of a broad label, so I'd like to say what would be my motivation for an event like this, which of course can differ for other people from other walks of life, and maybe foster some healthy debate.
> I see an event like this as:
>
> 1) Quality Leisure. Recently I was watching a Youtube video about the state of the kernel, and thinking, "god, I need more of this stuff!". I'd rather sit and listen to someone explaining why he thinks his window manager rocks, or a demo of someone's distro project, or how they hacked some piece of hardware to do X, than... any of the sad devices out there that a lot of people call "entertainment".
>
> 2) Community, giving back... all the feelgood stuff. I'm sure this format can help a lot of new projects and ideas appear, and problems be solved... Also, maybe at some point someone could bring a camera... I'm just playing around with the idea, forgive me if I go too far too soon, but wouldn't it be nice to put some content out there? Someone not long ago mentioned the wish to promote the LUG a bit more; a Youtube account would be cool, imo...
>
> Let me know what you think and let's advance the idea! Thx
>
>
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Regards

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Peter H



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