[wellylug] Meeting 10th March

[Brent Wood]

--- Lindsay Hunter <lindsay at csw.co.nz> wrote:

> Yes, that makes sense.  Is NZOSS interested?

As an NZOSS member, I can say yes, coz I am.... not that different to Wellylug.
If someone takes it & runs, it will happen....

I'd like to think there is enough FOSS stuff around to do this well, but it
really needs proper organisation, corporate booths, etc. More professional than
the stuff I've been doing at 'fests :-)

Summat I'm planning (have been for a while, just haven't been around long
enough for the last 18 months) is a demo on Sat mornings at the Wainui Mall, in
association with the local bookshop, who stock & sell a few of the major Linux
mags. Dunno why there is such interest here, but there is a better selection
than in most places.

Simple small thing, a few books mags & a Linux box to demo & answer questions
with some disks to give away. I haven't really chased it up since a basic
question about 18 months ago. If this goes OK I was thinking about seeing
Dymocks, who now have a shop in Queensgate/Westfield mall in Lower Hutt. about
trying one there. A much larger audience there....

Keeping things at a scale I can do myself at this stage.

> 
> Sorry to hear about your wife.  Give her our regards.

Will do, thanks! She's still around & doing pretty well. NIWA flew our daughter
back from the states to help look after her which was pretty neat...

Spotcha,

   Brent

> 
> Lindsay
> 
> > -
> >> > > I wonder if we could have another discussion of a Linux expo in
> >> > > Wellington rather than an Installfest?  It seems an attractive idea
> >> for
> >> > > many.  The question is how do you go about it?
> >> >
> >> > How about we schedule that in for the next meeting, so those
> >> interested
> >> > in being involved get plenty of warning? :-)
> >>
> >> By next meeting, I meant April 14th. :-)
> >
> >
> > Hi y'all...
> >
> > Looks like I'm back in Wgtn for a while. My wife was hit by a car (driver
> > on
> > cellphone) while I was down in Antarctica, & it looks like some long term
> > health problems from this will stop my travels for a while....
> >
> > Lindsay, I don't see an installfest & expo as exclusive. The last two
> > 'fests I
> > organised seemed to have as much interest in the various presentations as
> > in
> > Linux installs. I would think that presentations, workshops,
> > demonstrations &
> > installs all fit well under an "EXPO" banner.
> >
> > While I'm happy to organise a small 'fest with a few presentations,
> > (noting
> > that if I'm not around, no-one else steps up, so last year there wasn't
> > one), I
> > certainly don't have the skills, knowledge or time to organise a serious
> > expo,
> > and this suggests it is unlikely anyone else will take this on from
> > Wellylug.
> > Though I'm happy to be proved wrong!!
> >
> > Personally, I think that NZOSS is a more appropriate group to do this than
> > Wellylug, as a national organisation with more corporate involvement.
> >
> > After the success of last years NZ Open Source Awards, & with events like
> > Software Freedom Day, it may be better if such an expo looked at having
> > all
> > these events somewhat concurrently? That is sort of what an expo implies
> > to me
> > anyway.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >    Brent
> >
> >
> >
> >
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