On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:10:54 Alain Baudrez wrote: > Hello, > > Besides the Dipro fair where we are a regular participant, we need to > broaden our horizon in order to promote FOSS and Ubuntu in particular. > The Dipro fairs are nice, but during the last years the impact, and > popularity of those fairs has gone downhill. It is becoming an exclusive > hardware fair where our stand is the only software related one. This is > nice, because we attract attention that way, but OTOH the visitors to the > Dipro's are more hardware than software inclined. > > I was thinking that, as most of our members are still student or parents > with school going children and some or teachers that it must be possible to > open a small Ubuntu stand during the open-deur dagen in your or your > children's schools. Maybe that is something that you should inject as an > agenda point in the different school committees such as the ouderraad . > Organizers of such a stand would be logistically supported by the events > team with material and eventually manpower. With over 400 'steunpunten' if > a mere 10% joins the project, we have approx. 40 extra representations. > > > Studenten en/of ouders van studenten of onderwijzend personneel kan > eventueel gebruik maken van de 'open-deur' dagen om er een Ubuntu stand op > te zetten. Support zou dezelfde zijn als deze voor een stand op een dipro > fair. > > Des étudiants, leur parents ou des instituteurs pourraient profiter des > journées portes-ouvertes pour y placer un Ubuntu-stand. Le soutien logistic > serait le mêmem que pour les fairs dipro. > > > A.J. Baudrez That is correct.Schools do not use opensource software because they do not know it. I see that the frequent "ictdag.be" get's more than 300 visitors for different session.But this event is mostly sponsored by MS. Next Ict-praktijkdag is on 25 may in Ghent.Can someone ask price for a session of 2.5 h or a small 20 min session or expo stand for ubuntu, so I can examine for sponsoring this.
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