[kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day

[Bob Jonkman]

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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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