Re: [edlug] Planet & People Society Event - Call for Volunteers
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On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 03:49 +0000, Erik Chakravarty wrote:
> I'm a new list member of edlug (12 months), I'm a second-year
> Psychology/Philosophy student at Edinburgh Uni and I run the following:
>
> Debian/PPC (dual-boot OSX) on Apple PowerBook G4 15" with Apple iSight
> working under coridander / gnomemeeting - 3D graphics and internal
> wireless all set up. CUPS printing, digital camera interface and audio
> also working. This is should be a good showcase for our OS which up
> until relatively recently has been lacking somewhat in multimedia
> capabilites, especially on the powerpc platform. This is *the* angle for
> marketing Linux to mainstream users now, seeing as the main drives from
> MS and Apple are always multimedia focussed.
>
> I'd be more than happy to demo - I'm an extremely enthusiastic Linux
> user (almost 7 years sans-Windows, not bad for a 22-year old) and
> relatively comfortable speaking in front of an audience having worked as
> a consultant with Accenture for some time before I entered University
> education, specialising in Unix/Linux datacentre technologies.
>
> I will endeavour to attend the next meet but just to register my offer
> of support - organisers, you now have my contact details:
>
> e.chakravarty@sms.ed.ac.uk
>
> 07720 8505321
>
> Please call if you're interested - I can't be 100% on my availability at
> the moment but I can change plans now to fit this in if I know
> relatively soon.
>
> Take it easy - Erik
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 19:41 +0000, C. Dominik Bódi wrote:
> > [Call for volunteers for the P&P Society Event]
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Antonia came along to our meeting last week, and we sorted out some of the
> > details:
> >
> > The event will take place on March 13th, 7:00pm in the ground floor auditorium
> > of the Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, 1 Bristo Square.
> >
> > We will have 90-100 minutes to impress politically interested/active students
> > with the political/ethical and technical advantages of Free Software. My idea
> > was to split the event in three parts:
> >
> > 1.) Presentation about the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software, a la
> > Richard Stallman. (30-40 mins)
> > 2.) Technical demo running Linux on a desktop/laptop, displaying common use
> > cases like doing email, www, openoffice, im etc. (30 mins)
> > 3.) Questions and discussion (20-30 mins, depending on demand)
> >
> > I would suggest splitting up the duties, as well. Therefore, we will need TWO
> > volunteers, one for the presentation and one for the technical demo.
> >
> > For the presentation I would want someone who already has at least brief
> > experience advocating Free Software. I will contact the FSFE in order to get
> > some slides they might already have created...
> >
> > For the second presentation someone who already has done similar demos would
> > be perfect, but anyone who feels up to do such a demo would be welcome.
> >
> > Additionally, it might be a good idea if we could get some more edlug members
> > to attend the meeting, possibly taking their laptops and pdas along to show
> > off with and get the people into personal discussions....
> >
> > About the target audience: For details about the P&P Society, see
> > http://pandp.eusa.ed.ac.uk/
> >
> > Antonia provided helpful information about the society, as well. We cannot
> > expect every attendant to be a computer-geek, on the contrary. Many of them
> > will have experience using widespread non-free software on a (more or less)
> > daily basis, and that's it. However, these folks will be politically
> > interested and many of them will possibly have experience taking part in a
> > campaign or two. Arguing the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software
> > could have a big impact, indeed.
> >
> > Any volunteers, please mail to the list. The same goes for anyone having
> > suggestions etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dominik
>
>
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