Does ALUG want to go for this? Can we do a new venue this year, or should we try UEA again? Where does May fall in the academic year? (Pretty good, IIRC)
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Message-ID: 3C7FB085.1070404@soton.ac.uk Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 16:47:01 +0000 From: John S Robinson J.S.Robinson@soton.ac.uk Subject: [lugmaster] UK Linux Install Day 2002
After the success of last year's UK Linux Install Day, Dorset Linux User Group (http://dorset.lug.org.uk) have decided to hold another regional event in 2002.
As there seems to be no similar national effort so far this year, we would like to invite other LUGs to coordinate their Install Days with ours, to form a UK Linux Install Day 2002 on Sunday May 19th.
National coordination will allow us to raise the the profile of Install Day events and to promote Linux and Open Source software to Businesses and the public. We aim to achieve national press coverage and sponsorship (approaches have been made to O'Reilly and Mandrake).
To register your Install Day event, please mail me details (Venue, time, URL for details etc.) to marketing@linuxinstallday.org.
Details of events will be shown on the website:
http://www.linuxinstallday.org
This is our chance to build on last year's success and show the public one of Free Software's most valuable facets - it's great sense of community.
I'll also be contacting LUG lists directly, in case (as has happened in the past) LUGMasters aren't actually subscribed to this list! If you have any thoughts or questions, please don't hesitate to mail me at the address above, or the one in my sig below.
Regards,
John Robinson.
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-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 02 March 2002 00:07 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
Does ALUG want to go for this? Can we do a new venue this year, or should we try UEA again? Where does May fall in the academic year? (Pretty good, IIRC)
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As there seems to be no similar national effort so far this year, we would like to invite other LUGs to coordinate their Install Days with ours, to form a UK Linux Install Day 2002 on Sunday May 19th.
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I think ALUG must go for this as we did last year. Needs more promotion though.
19th May is earmarked for a Syleham meeting but if you think it is inappropriate for an install day due to it's remote location I'm happy to change.
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Cheers, BJ>
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, MJ Ray wrote:
National coordination will allow us to raise the the profile of Install Day events and to promote Linux and Open Source software to Businesses and the public. We aim to achieve national press coverage and sponsorship (approaches have been made to O'Reilly and Mandrake).
Well yeah lets go for it, but I still don't like the term "install day" we should really have an "awareness day" whereby you can get an install too.
It may be even better to call it "Linux day" to just raise profile and awareness of GNU/Linux (although we should also perhaps be thinking of other Free and alternative OS), just I don't like the idea of doing installs on other peoples machines who don't know *anything* about linux and are doing it just because they heard it was cool as if you cause them any subsequent data loss or put an OS on there machine that they don't really want or need then you are harming the acceptance of linux in the UK.
Anyway in short lets do it, UEA would be great although should we perhaps as a group maybe have 2 seperate meetings on that day? One in Norfolk and one in Suffolk? I presume CamLug will be doing this also as they have had an install day before in the basement of CB2...
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