Re: KDE release party

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Kenny Duffus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 16:36:56 Rahul Garg wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> A KDE user here from Montreal, Canada!  First, congratulations on the
>> new KDE release!
>>
>
> welcome
>
>> The release party concept looks interesting and I can start one.
>> However, I do not know any KDE users here. Can you give me some idea
>> if starting one is still a feasible idea? Is there a minimum attendees
>> requirement?
>
> release parties vary greatly in size and complexity from the simple of a few
> people meeting in a pub to ones with lots of people and some talks
>
> so there is no minimum numbers, you might want to add in your event
> description to ask people a bit more stronly to indicate if they are planning
> to come and say something like if you don't get 3 names it won't happen.
> something to be aware of is that often people will turn up without putting
> names down or alo those that did might not turn up, like most events its
> always a bit of a gamble
>
> good luck if you go ahead with it

Contact Linux groups and people around Montreal, and tell them that
there's a party.
* http://mlug.ca/
* http://montreal.ubisoft.com/en - big game developer that uses Linux
* Université de Montréal Computer Science Department - looks like
they're doing interesting stuff with Linux
* http://www.cs.concordia.ca/ - looks like a lot of Linux here; call
the Department Chair, Sudhir Mudur, Ph.D., P. Eng.
* McGill - http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/ (Director of the CompSci School -
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/people/faculty/profile?uid=dudek)

See if the universities have any student organizations...ACM, Women in Computing

Secondary schools - youth aged 10 - ? Schools are teaching HTML5/CSS3
and using antiquated browsers that won't support them. They are
learning MS Office applications and calling it technology. Contact the
technology instructors at one of the high schools; they will know
instructors at other schools and the geeky troublemakers at their own
school

Are there any PC recycling orgs using Linux? Like FreeGeek
(http://www.freegeek.org/)

There's probably a lot of Linux being used around Montreal. People
deserve to know about the bestest Linux user environment.

Carl


>
>> Secondly, is there a date requirement? I would prefer to do it on 9th
>> or 10th august, which is a bit later than all the other scheduled
>> events.
>>
>
> within a few weeks is fine
>
>> I will look into how to install KDE 4.9 on my Kubuntu install :)
>>
>
> there maybe packages for precise shortly after the release there is also
> project neon[1] but that might not be a good idea for your daily machine
>
> 1. https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon
>
> --
>
>         Kenny
>
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