[Lilux-help] LinuxDays.lu - 2004

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi Bob,

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Bob Hentges wrote:

> Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> > And the (for us) more interesting part will take place later
> > than usual, probably in february 2005 - mostly tutorials and
> > hands-on presentations (i.e. very practical stuff).
> > Small "villages" with different themes are an idea being
> > discussed, replacing the expo.
>
> I don't really see what you mean. Will the boothes of the
> different Organisations be in those "villages", for I don't really
> get the point ;-)

Well, the idea is to have different themes, like desktop,
multimedia, etc. etc., where people who did presentations or
tutorials can show off their stuff and respond to questions,
and where visitors can experiment hands-on with the software.
We'll recycle PCs from the tutorials for this task.
There wouldn't be organization's booths - the companies there
(with one notable exception IIRC) weren't too happy last year.

> > The reason for the change of concept is the very low visitors
> > number last year (for the presentations parts anyway - the
> > tutorials were well visited), and the wish of the organizers
> > to have more practical / directly useful & interesting stuff
> > there.
>
> Full ACK :)

Glad to see someone agrees already with changing the concept ;-)

> > The reason for the date is financing - we started late with
> > organization, it was too late to get a budget in for this
> > year. February it will be because of the availability of
> > classrooms @IST (uh, sorry, that's Campus Kirchberg of the
> > Université de Luxembourg now).
>
> So do you think, that the LinuxDays will take place in the
> school holidays in feb?

Probably, yes. I hope an exact date will be fixed on friday,
so I should know more for the weekend.

Greets Eric