Hello all. Apologies for not getting involved with this discussion earlier,
but I've been on vacation with limited net access. I've read through
the whole thread and want to share my thoughts on this issue and propose
a plan on what we do from now to deal with it.
When I orginally started the project, I thought about just setting
a single day as the official day and allowing LUGs to work around
it as needed for them. I decided against it due to the fact that I
didn't want to mandate what people had to do to get involved with
this project. The original goal of the project was to help coordinate
the demonstrations by providing a forum for communication about
running a demonstration (this list) and to provide a centralized
method of getting sponsors. But...
After reading all arguments for a single day event, I agree that having a
single day is important for the reasons that have already been discused.
However, it may be too late already for this time around. Even though
we have ~2 months left, I know that some LUGs have already started
planning for their event and some have already organized a time/place.
This does not mean that we can't try though. What I propose is that
I will send out a message to all the LUG coordinators with the idea
of having a main Linux Demo Day. The best way to choose this day is
going to be to find out what day most LUGs have planned for and set
that as the official day.
There have been some other ideas brought up in this discussion that I
think are interesting to pursue such as having a continuous webcast from
different sites around the world. Once again, I think it might be
too late this time around. I personally do not have the time to spend
on such an undertaking. If somoene on this list wants to take up
this taske, please speak up an let us know. Otherwise we'll save the
idea for next time.
"Next time you say?"
Yes next time. This project has grown far beyond my original expectations.
I had expected a few LUGs to sign up, and maybe one or two large sponsors.
As of now we have 60 LUGs and several large sponsors and I'm sure we
will get more as we continue to grow. The plan is to continue and have
this even again next year and hopefully every year until Linux is mainstream
enough that it is no longer needed. I think that everone involved (specially
me) has learned many things about organizing such a large event
that next year things will go more smoothly. In addition, the extra time
we have will let us think out the project ahead of time before getting
LUGs on board. I will admit that when I started this, I really hadn't
thought out a lot of issues that have come up. At the time it just
sounded like a really neat idea, so I registered the domain and put
up the website.
I can't give out any details at the moment (b/c I don't have them),
but by next year, LDD will hopefully be an official non-profit
organization. This will allow us to get direct funding from sponsors,
which will let us advertise the project more, and do things like
coordinate live web casts, etc. In addition, we have gotten a booth
at this august's Linux World Expo (more on that in a few days), and
that will let more people know about our existence.
My $0.02,
Deepak Saxena
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