[ubuntu-uk] London Ubuntu install party?

[John Stevenson]

Hello all,


On 27 March 2010 18:35, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/03/10 18:02, John Stevenson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Thanks for all the feedback.  I was planning this for the 1st May, but
> > this has been pointed out as the same weekend as oggcamp.
> >
> > Would you all still be interested on a simultaneous London event or
> > would you prefer the following weekend?
>
> Personally, I would prefer if we could do it on a Friday. The idea you
> have and the opportunity to show off stuff like Ubuntu EC would be
> something we would be happy to be involved with and would probably want
> to invite some businesses to come along and see it in action.
>

I do agree that Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud would be interesting to many
businesses and therefore there is good incentive to do an event with that
topic on a weekday, i.e. Friday.

I would also need help with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to do that topic an
justice.  I don't have enough practical experience to do the topic justice
by in detail.  I was going to do some work on UEC this weekend, but have
been a little busy planning.


>  > I have a venue in mind which would cater for up to 100 people, has
> > wireless Internet connectivity and plenty of space.  The venue would
> > cost to hire, so would either have to charge a small fee (£10-25) on
> > entry or get some sponsorship.  Would you all still be interested if
> > there is an entrance fee?
>
> Did you not see the reply from James Thomas on the 23rd?
>

I've emailed James earlier today to see what size of venue he has.  If he
has enought capacity and is able to do a week day, then that would fit in
with what you suggest.  I had the impression that James' kind offer was for
a day during the weekend, but am happy to be corrected.

I am keeping any options open, but need to get some decisions made this
coming week to give everyone enough notice.

I am open to doing a targeted event on the Saturday afternoon, more for
developers and admins who support developers.  Then taking that idea to a
weekday event with a broader or business focused audience.

The original idea was to hold the event as close to the release date as
possible and use the general buzz to get technical people coming to the
event.  I suspect that many business people would be a little more cautious
and an event with them in mind would be less influenced by the days since
release ticking away.

Before this started I was planning in the back of my mind to do some Ubuntu
/ Linux advocacy evening talks as I have a venue that will hold them for
free.  Once I have recovered from this release event I hope to get that in
motion.

-- 
John Stevenson
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