[GreekLUG] Προώθηση: Linux Presentation Day in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

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On 16/12/2015 02:14 μμ, Efstathios Iosifidis wrote:
> Σας στέλνω το παρακάτω μήνυμα που στάλθηκε στις λίστες του GNOME και
> openSUSE. Πιθανό να σας ενδιαφέρει.
> /Σ
> *********************************
> Hauke Laging <hauke.laging στο linux-presentation-day.de>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a member of the board of the Berlin Linux User Group (BeLUG, a non-
> commercial association). About a year ago I had an idea for a new kind
> of Linux event which should be targeted at people who don't know Linux
> yet and which should be very easy to organize. We call this the "Linux
> Presentation Day" – not very German but we intended from the beginning
> to expand this beyond Germany after some time. Here is an English
> summary:
>
> http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/
>
> On May, 9th 2015 we had the first event, limited to Berlin at eight
> locations. In July we started to find interested organizations in other
> cities, first limited to Germany but we expanded that to Austria and
> Switzerland. The second event (the first outside Berlin but also
> organized by BeLUG) was on November, 14th. 79 locations in 72 cities in
> three countries participated; the event had 1500 visitors (due to an
> unexpected lack of media coverage). Two new Linux User Groups have been
> founded.
>
> Now we have started to look for organizations abroad for our next event
> as the main goal of the event is to make it so big that we reach a new
> level of media coverage. We were more than surprised when we were told
> that the Italians have been doing something very similar for 15
> years...!
>
> http://www.linuxday.it/
>
> Is there something similar in Greece already?
>
>
> I am looking for a few organizations (LUGs, similar associations,
> companies, schools, universities, ...) which are interested in such an
> event and might participate in the LPD 2016.1 and use their experience
> from that for organizing it as a nationwide event for LPD 2016.2.
>
> http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/call-for/2016.1/
>
>
> The date for the next event (LPD 2016.1) is April, 30th (Saturday). The
> date for 2016.2 will probably be the Italian date (October, 22th).
>
>
> The nationwide Dutch LUG is interested in participating. Several Italian
> and two British cities are. Our Swiss organizers take care for France.
> And more countries will be addressed. The aim is to have a Europe-wide
> event soon and a worldwide event within a few years.
>
>
> CU
>
> Hauke
> (Mr. Hauke Laging)
>