[ubuntu-za] Jaunty Release Party Cape Town

[Phillip Pare]

* Find a venue

>
> Hilton Theunissen suggested a TuxLab equipped school - Camps Bay High
> again, or Groote Schuur Primary in Rondebosch (if I remember
> correctly). We'll need to arrange with the school and lab admin.
>
> If we can secure the venue in good time we can do better with our
> publicity this time (although we had a good attendance last time
> anyway).
>
>   
>> * Organize Jaunty Local Repository
>> * Snacks
>> * Presentations / Talks about experiences
>> * Ubuntu in small business
>> * Get users to come :)
>>
>> I am trying to organize that we a a local Jaunty repository so we can do
>> installs and such with zero bandwidth usage. One reason users don't feel
>> like upgrading/re-installing they would have to redownload their apps.
>>
>> Any thing any one else can add or correct wiki link is below.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/Jaunty_Release_Party/Cape_Town (Thanks to
>> Johan Mynhardt)
>>     
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
>   
How about targeting schools whose tuxlabs are NOT functioning well for 
the release parties.
This would give people the chance of helping the schools get everything 
up and running beautifully.

St Mark's College in Jane Furse in Limpopo is quite off the beaten track 
for many people but it would be an eye-opener to others to what is 
involved in promoting IT in the deep rural areas. ( 24.763687 South and 
29.866107 East)
The school is about 225 km north east of Pretoria, about 120 km South of 
Polokwane and 80km north east of Groblersdal.

I am sure Hilton Theunissen would be able to give the names of various 
schools in all corners of the country that could benefit from a party of 
enthusiasts. Two schools in the Phalaborwa area which did have Tuxlabs 
in various states of repair are Majeje  Secondary in Lulekani (approx 
23.850 South and 31.086 East) and Nkateko also in Lulekani (approx 
23.867 South and 31.072 East). The Palabora foundation could be of help 
here in identifying other schools. Phalaborwa would be nice in that you 
could combine the party with a vist to the Kruger park and there is a 
variety of good accomodation in Phalaborwa.

At each party could someone not come with a full set of Jaunty DVD's 
that includes everything from main through the universe to medibuntu. 
Everything necessary could then be loaded onto the school's server.

The other thing that would be useful would be for people to come with a 
set of examples to show how both open source pascal / lazarus, open 
source java, open office and mysql could be used to answer the matric IT 
question papers. Perhaps a full set of answers to last year's November 
IT and CAT papers would be appropriate.

Regards

Phillip
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