[Ubuntu-be] An idea for extra representations

[Jan Bongaerts]

Excellent idea.
I'm not involved with any schools, but if someone needs a volunteer to man a
booth or to give a presentation, they can contact me.
jan.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Alain Baudrez <a.baudrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Besides the Dipro fair where we are a regular participant, we need to
> broaden our horizon in order to promote FOSS and Ubuntu in particular.
> The Dipro fairs are nice, but during the last years the impact, and
> popularity of those fairs has gone downhill. It is becoming an exclusive
> hardware fair where our stand is the only software related one. This is
> nice, because we attract attention that way, but OTOH the visitors to the
> Dipro's are more hardware than software inclined.
>
> I was thinking that, as most of our members are still student or parents
> with school going children and some or teachers that it must be possible to
> open a small Ubuntu stand during the open-deur dagen in your or your
> children's schools. Maybe that is something that you should inject as an
> agenda point in the different school committees such as the ouderraad .
> Organizers of such a stand would be logistically supported by the events
> team with material and eventually manpower. With over 400 'steunpunten' if a
> mere 10% joins the project, we have approx. 40 extra representations.
>
>
> Studenten en/of ouders van studenten of onderwijzend personneel kan
> eventueel gebruik maken van de 'open-deur' dagen om er een Ubuntu stand op
> te zetten. Support zou dezelfde zijn als deze voor een stand op een dipro
> fair.
>
> Des étudiants, leur parents ou des instituteurs pourraient profiter des
> journées portes-ouvertes pour y placer un Ubuntu-stand. Le soutien logistic
> serait le mêmem que pour les fairs dipro.
>
>
> A.J. Baudrez
>
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