[CLUG] Next big Irish Linux Day

[vincie]

Just another one that came to mind:
L inux 
A wareness and
U nderstanding
G rand
H atchery

:) just thought of it while rereading your original LAID idea Donncha. 

> >UCC is cramped? Gods, you might as well borrow Cobh for the 
> >day.
>
> There was a lot of people in Boole4. It had/has cinema type seating 
> and a pain when one person in a middle row had to get out "Ooops 
...
> moving to an even larger space with easier seating for the moving 
> masses would benefit everyone.

I definetely thought the room was too full. admittedly i came in halfway
through a talk, but it was really stuffy in there, and a good crowd of ppl
were left standing at the back, me included :(  Even if the boole wasnt
full, the cinema type seating is a pain.
If the plan is bigger and better, which i would certainly hope it to be,
more space will be needed for certain. Anyway, Cobh shoulnt be _that_ much
to rent out :-P
 
> >I like that idea, although it would be a logistical nightmare - people
> >dumping cars all over the place, carrying rigs around like idiots. 
> 
>    Oh yes it will be an absolute nightmare. No one every said it was 
> gonna be easy. But how good will that look in the press ? 100's of 
> people bringing their computers to the show to get Linux installed ? 
> Thats going to get a few lines in every newspaper. You'll probably 
> get a full page in one or two papers even. Some sort of online 
> booking system beforehand would ease the pain a tad.

how about a "car-boot install" :) A policy of machines never coming out of
the owners car could be made known to everyone, and should limit hassle of
missing bits'n'pieces. All that would be needed are a couple of extension
cords, cd's and ppl to do the job.
 
if enough installs could get done to have linux booting on most
journalists machines, publicity could be sorted for ever after :)

> Oooh oooh I have more to say.. The organisers should maybe 
> dress apart from the rest so people and companies can approach 
> them easier. You should all wear black suits and black ties like the 
> guys in Resevoir Dogs !!!! 

hehe, i agree, tho maybe resevoir dogs is taking it too far. One of the
things i would have liked last year was to talk with some of the LUGers or
other organisers, but they werent easy to spot at all. A sort of helpdesk
where anyone could come up and ask w/ever questions they wanted about
linux would be good.

ok, seeye
vince