SFD10/InitialBrainstorming
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Software Fun Day 2010
SFD2010 - 3rd Sat September - 18 September 2010
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Is it worth it?
Positive
- Community building and focus for celebration
- Seen as a hub of Free Software activity by others in Aus
Negative
- Huge amount of energy and effort needed to run it
- No tangible return on this investment of time, effort, money
Who do we target?
Discussed and discarded Business target as too hard.
Some positive attitude towards senior citz, but most agreed with focus on kids and families - and agreement to call it Software Fun Day.
How do we measure outcomes?
- Competition / Survey - use a liveCD
- Exit survey on the day
- Number of ppl at the event
- Number of ppl who attend a follow up event
- LUV main & beginners meetings in October promoted for follow up
How? Where? Materials?
How
- Computer Lab
- games
- hands on workshops
- Talks
- Install Fest
- Community Tables [Need good signage]
- BYO machines for installs and hands on learning
Where
- Community Centres
- All ctte members to Investigate their own local options
- Shopping Centres
- Federation Square
- The Royal Melbourne Show
- School Fetes
- Farmers Markets
- Local Public Libraries
- Computer Swap Meets
Venue Options to be considered
- Royal Melbourne Show
Cost $4000 - $4500 for a 3x3 metre stand for the duration of the show... in the kids zone or the living & lifestyle zone. Also - possibly an option to consider participating in the super show trail bag... where we give people a CD when they show up the stand. Dates: Saturday 18 September to Tuesday 28 September So it starts on SFD.
- Fed Square
- Zinc - http://www.zincfedsq.com.au/aboutZinc.cfm
- BMW edge and The Atrium. Some details at - http://www.fedsquare.com/Docs/Federation%20Square%20Corporate%20Pack.pdf
- Melbourne City Conference Centre - http://www.melbourneccc.com.au/
- Storey Hall - http://www.rmit.com.au/browse;ID=tih7ybpy5o99
- State Library Conference Centre - http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/business/venue_hire/venues/confcentre_hire.html
- North Melbourne Recreation Centre Stadium - http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/nmrc/Stadium/Pages/Stadium.aspx
Local Options : Monash City area
Several Community Halls of which 3 seems interesting: 1. Clayton Library area:
Pros: Easy PT. decent meeting room 1 (+ possibly another one) + large theatre auditorium
Free wireless Internet from Library
Cons: Well its in Clayton - not so Central
2. GlenWaverley Library Area:
Pros: as for clayton , less auditoium and room smaller.
But much busier so potentially larger audience
Cons : Less space compared to Clayton in General
3. Oakleigh Old Town Hall.
Pros : Good Space and good PT Cons : Slightly out of the way to usual Sat Crowd
There is also a place in Jells Park - I would personally love to do something there -it just a very nice surrounding - but I know its too much out of the way.
While these places may not be top of list for SFD, they would be good for SFD type followup events in a future.
Materials
Held over
- CDs - openCD, Ubuntu, Fedora, CustomCD
- Posters
- Postcards
- Maps
- Website
- Press Releases
- Flyers
- Organisations
- Follow up events
- In depth brochures on software freedom, how-tos... ?
- Tshirts
- Balloons
- Schwag
etc...
Funding: Sponsorship and Budget
held over
Staff: volunteers, groups.
held over
Past Software Freedom Day pages
| Software Freedom Day 2010 (main page) - http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ (view/edit this template) | |
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| Websites:: SFD.org wiki | Facebook event | LUV event | 
<a href="http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/"><img style="margin: 0.5em 1em" src="http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/images/button-sfd-melb-2010-2.png" alt="Software Freedom Day, Sat 18 Sept 2010, State Library of Victoria 11am-4pm" /></a> |
| Other links: Mailing list | Eventbrite - public - admin | Twitter | IRC: #sfd-melb | |
| General organising: Initial brainstorming | Meetings | Budget | |
| Merch related: Artwork | DVD contents | t-shirts | |
| Events: Speakers | Workshops | Minitalks | Experimedia room | |
| Marketing: Marketing | Fliers (PDF) | |
| Misc: File:SLV Visitor Access.pdf | Geocaching | Survey | Prizes | |
| On the day: Runsheet | Volunteers | |
| Post event: Report |
