It’s fun when your commitment pays off. Now it may seem that finally it does and all of a sudden in three parts of my organizational work. Let’s begin with SPIST. SPIST is all about spreading the Skolelinux project to as many schools as possible in the southern region of middle Norway. This will be achieved through tailored talks with politicians, school boards, principals, the IT-dept. and their likes. Last night we held a meeting about the future of SPIST and we came to the point when we realized that we need a broad sword, but also a precise scalpel. SPIST can be the scalpel, TLUG may well serve as the broad sword.
Trondheim Linux User Group never have had the potential to talk to politicians on many levels, nor nurture the Skolelinux project into the hands and jobs of IT-depts. What TLUG has is about is the ability to help out, stand on the street corner and tell people about Linux. Hold open meetings, generate press coverage, do install-jobs for fun and free and generally be the backbone help the Linux-users in this region may seek in times of trouble. Next Saturday, the 18th of December, we’re going to hold such an event. TLUG is going out on the bussy streets to preach about Linux to the masses. Kicking off at 12:00 at the top of Nordre st. in central Trondheim we’re going to hand out free Live- and Install-CD’s with Ubuntu Linux along with a A4-page flyer about Linux, TLUG, SPIST and the great new options people now have. Want to join? Please do!
While SPIST and TLUG are prodding along, so are the planning of AuLAN:Heat. Yesterday we landed the great deal of AuLAN:Heat getting Novell onboard as a premium sponsor of our computerparty. Novell will hand out CD’s to all attendees and possibly hold a mini-conference about Linux. Currently we’re in talks with local Novell-partners to achieve a little press about this. We’re also investigating the option with giving everyone at the party a free t-shirt. That’d be cool. A real memory from the largest, most successful computerparty ever held in Trondheim, or even the region of middle Norway at all. So. Today’s going to be good. I love such days!.
Woke up at 0530, got out of the sheets at 0538, and got to the gym at 0628, just in time for it to open. After 1 hour and 40 minutes of workout I am not comfortably sitting in my chair in the offices at Grep thinking about what to do and who to plague with my Linux- and computerparty-enthusiasm during the free spots in the workschedule.
Some links are due. SPIST – TLUG – AuLAN:Heat – Join the crowd!
