[ubuntu-za] Jaunty Release Party Cape Town

Sat Mar 28 16:47:57 GMT 2009

Hey there,

For those folks that added their names to the Pretoria gig, Rock On! For 
those who have not yet, what are waiting for? Add yours ;) - 
http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/Jaunty_Release_Party/Pretoria - please also 
drop me an email so we can stay in touch.

Regards,
Schalk

Phillip Pare wrote:
> * 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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