Hello Dominik, I will hopefully be the proud owner of a Linux-running laptop by March, so could possibly help in after-presentation discussions/demonstration. I don't really fancy myself as a speaker in front of a large audience, though. May I suggest that we go to the forest cafe with some of the more eager students after the main event? Cheers Colin On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:41:17PM +0000, C. Dominik Bódi wrote: > [Call for volunteers for the P&P Society Event] > Hi folks, > > Antonia came along to our meeting last week, and we sorted out some of the > details: > > The event will take place on March 13th, 7:00pm in the ground floor auditorium > of the Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, 1 Bristo Square. > > We will have 90-100 minutes to impress politically interested/active students > with the political/ethical and technical advantages of Free Software. My idea > was to split the event in three parts: > > 1.) Presentation about the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software, a la > Richard Stallman. (30-40 mins) > 2.) Technical demo running Linux on a desktop/laptop, displaying common use > cases like doing email, www, openoffice, im etc. (30 mins) > 3.) Questions and discussion (20-30 mins, depending on demand) > > I would suggest splitting up the duties, as well. Therefore, we will need TWO > volunteers, one for the presentation and one for the technical demo. > > For the presentation I would want someone who already has at least brief > experience advocating Free Software. I will contact the FSFE in order to get > some slides they might already have created... > > For the second presentation someone who already has done similar demos would > be perfect, but anyone who feels up to do such a demo would be welcome. > > Additionally, it might be a good idea if we could get some more edlug members > to attend the meeting, possibly taking their laptops and pdas along to show > off with and get the people into personal discussions.... > > About the target audience: For details about the P&P Society, see > http://pandp.eusa.ed.ac.uk/ > > Antonia provided helpful information about the society, as well. We cannot > expect every attendant to be a computer-geek, on the contrary. Many of them > will have experience using widespread non-free software on a (more or less) > daily basis, and that's it. However, these folks will be politically > interested and many of them will possibly have experience taking part in a > campaign or two. Arguing the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software > could have a big impact, indeed. > > Any volunteers, please mail to the list. The same goes for anyone having > suggestions etc. > > Cheers, > Dominik > -- > Vergib Deinen Feinden, aber vergiß niemals ihre Namen. > -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Colin Horne GPG 0x3DC37936 (http://colinhorne.co.uk/~colin/public_key.gpg) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html
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