Re: KDE release party

Thanks for the excellent suggestions! I will try and spread the word
through various channels. Also mentioning it on Twitter, various
internet forums (like craigslist linux discussion group) etc.

rahul

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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