[kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day

[Bob Jonkman]

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I was talking to a friend who may have some lines on a paid venue. If
the venue needs payment, then either we need a generous benefactor, or
the attendees will need to pay.  KWLUG list members are a significant
portion of the target audience -- would you be willing to pay to
attend Software Freedom Day?  $20? More? Less?

We'll need to more reasonably quickly to secure a venue, as the target
date (26 September) is getting close...

- --Bob.


On 20/07/15 01:24 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Colin has not (yet) offered a venue for SFD. I'm not sure what
> Colin has accepted, whether it is my offer of a presentation on
> "What is Software Freedom", or my request for an SFD venue. Ken,
> please continue to investigate a venue for SFD.
> 
> If either Colin or Ken (or someone else) comes up with a venue in
> the next week or so then there may be a Software Freedom Day in 
> Kitchener-Waterloo. If no venue can be found by the end of July
> then I withdraw from the SFD organizing committee due to lack of
> remaining time.
> 
> I'm only doing one presentation of "What is Software Freedom",
> whether at the Linux Conference or at a potential SFD. As was
> kindly pointed out to me, I'm stretching myself very thin for the
> upcoming few months.
> 
> --Bob, who wonders who else might be on the SFD Organizing
> Committee.
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/07/15 11:18 PM, B.S. wrote:
>> This thread has become confusing. Perhaps it should be split
>> out.
> 
>> (1) Colin has a venue and a bunch of plans and expectations 
>> already in place. They may not yet be firm, formal, or
>> documented, but evidently he is working through that. No doubt he
>> will let us know more when he is able.
> 
>> - to that end, Ken, hold off on what you're thinking, as I expect
>>  Colin will inherently provide whatever Bob needs since he has 
>> accepted Bob for his offered presentation. I expect Colin has or 
>> will have Conestoga A/V facilities available to him. e.g. Every 
>> classroom already has a screen, projector, sound, and so on and
>> so forth. (Bob, if you haven't presented there before, their
>> computers don't / didn't understand impress, but do have an
>> ability to get sound/video from your own laptop, being on KVMs.)
> 
>> - Colin, when you get that far: (1) Consider an installfest. 
>> Presumably in a cafeteria somewhere. It may not be large enough
>> to be a 'fest', but volunteers hanging around to help people
>> connect the dots / 'whats a distro, where do I get one, and what
>> do I do with it' will be useful. For however few show up for
>> such, vs those who know they can figure things out on their own.
>> Having a computer/switch nearby for people to plug ethernet into
>> and netboot into a distro install will be useful, or perhaps even
>> to just ftp down an .iso or vm. I expect Paul / Bob / kwlug can
>> help inform the what / how of such. (2) When you get that far,
>> let us know how we can help. e.g. Door / fest / elsewise
>> volunteers. For that matter a lab running a vm kiosk could be
>> useful - there could be eclipse, blender, minecraft, grandpa
>> (what you'd give your parents when their windows machine goes
>> TU), and any number of things others can come up with better than
>> me. Seems to me each vm choice has a library store out th
> 
>> Perhaps: 'Conestoga K-W Linux Conference 2015'
> 
> 
>> (2) Bob and Ken, or Bob in responding to Ken, is talking about a
>>  separate and separately located SFD that thus far has no venue /
>>  location, or date. It does not yet exist.  Should it come to 
>> exist, it may well be that that venue already has all necessary
>> A/V in place. Could further discussion about such be split into
>> a different thread than from Colin, and the two kept distinctly 
>> separate. For I'm getting fair confused and having problems 
>> following 'which is what talking about whom', at this point.
> 
>> - given the conflicting events of the SFD date, perhaps it's
>> worth scaling down SFD from the past and partnering with
>> whatever kwartzlap is doing? 'IP Freedom Day', not just software,
>> or hardware? Let alone kwartzlab hardware is probably a larger
>> domain than the 'hardware' one expects when thinking computer
>> centric.
> 
>> Perhaps: 'K-W SFD 2015'
> 
> 
>> For that matter, for both ... a presentation such as Bob is 
>> offering seems *VERY* important, perhaps de rigeur. 'Freedom',
>> in this context, is crucial to understand, never gets old, and
>> no matter how many times I hear it or think about it I keep
>> being startled at how it applies to areas I hadn't considered it
>> in different contexts I experience.
> 
>>> ________________________________ From: Ken Hermanson 
>>> <kenhermanson at gmail.com> To: KWLUG discussion 
>>> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 6:37 PM 
>>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day
>>> 
>>> O.k., I'm a rookie at this. Your info. is detailed but not 
>>> detailed enough. It sounds like you need one largish room for
>>> the main presentation. The projector and screen are no problem.
>>> Are the events sequential or simultaneous? I'm assuming that
>>> you need smaller side rooms for the other activities? I'm not 
>>> familiar with the other venues that you've mentioned. Maybe I 
>>> should take a look at them. No promises, but I'll sniff
>>> around.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Bob Jonkman 
>>> <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 19/07/15 10:45 AM, Ken Hermanson wrote:
>>>>> Roughly how many people attend SFD? Do you need screen, 
>>>>> projector, etc.?
>>>> 
>>>> In the past we've had up to 100 people come in to see some
>>>> (or all) of the presentations at SFD. It's been held at
>>>> either Kwartzlab (both old and new locations), or the Queen
>>>> Street Commons Cafe along with an installfest at Computer
>>>> Recycling, across the road from QSC.
>>>> 
>>>> Last year's attendance at SFD was down considerably because
>>>> of the many other activities that take place on the actual
>>>> SFD date (19 Sept this year). Last year was also the first
>>>> time we had workshops and a Free Culture film festival at The
>>>> Working Centre, also across the street from QSC. It was
>>>> especially disappointing because of the extra effort we put
>>>> into getting presenters, the workshops, and the film
>>>> festival, only to have what was probably the lowest
>>>> attendance at SFD ever.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here's what's needed: The presentations require a projector 
>>>> and screen, with seating either formally theatre-style, or 
>>>> informally coffee-shop style (I like coffee-shop style). 
>>>> Workshops (if we're doing that) require desk- or table-space 
>>>> with power and WiFi for people to work on laptops; the 
>>>> installfest (if we're doing that) needs table space, power, 
>>>> wired connection, and maybe the prep of a distribution 
>>>> repository server. A Free Culture film festival (if we're
>>>> doing that) needs theatre-style seating and a projector &
>>>> screen.
>>>> 
>>>> On 19/07/15 10:45 AM, Ken Hermanson wrote:
>>>>> *Roughly how many people attend SFD? Do you need screen, 
>>>>> projector, etc.?*
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Bob Jonkman 
>>>>> <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanx Paul. I did think you had made it perfectly clear.  I
>>>>>  was less clear about my willingness to participate the 
>>>>> organization of SFD this year.
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