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LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium) Main organization steps and feedback LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium) Main organization steps and feedback LPD 2016.2 06/03/2017 page 1/17

LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium) Main organization steps and feedback Table of contents LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium)...............................................................1 Main organization steps and feedback..................................................................................................1 Foreword...............................................................................................................................................3 Background...........................................................................................................................................3 Important warning :..............................................................................................................................4 Main organization steps........................................................................................................................4 Week #27.........................................................................................................................................4 Week #28 - #33................................................................................................................................5 Week #34.........................................................................................................................................5 Week #35.........................................................................................................................................5 Week #36 - #37................................................................................................................................5 Week #38.........................................................................................................................................5 Week #39.........................................................................................................................................6 Week #40.........................................................................................................................................6 Week #41.........................................................................................................................................6 Week #42.........................................................................................................................................6 Visitors registrations.............................................................................................................................7 Technical installation............................................................................................................................8 The event day – 22/10/2016...............................................................................................................10 Survey............................................................................................................................................10 Survey question :......................................................................................................................10 Survey analysis..............................................................................................................................11 LPD staff organization........................................................................................................................13 What to do for the next event...and how ?..........................................................................................15 Tasks summary and comments :...............................................................................................15 Special thanks go to :..........................................................................................................................17 • Michel Gerin, editor of this document, is a former LUG member • Unless otherwise stated, texts, pie charts, bar charts, drawing in this document « LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium) - Main organization steps and feedback » are licensed to the public by Michel Gerin under CC BY-SA 4.0. • The « People icon » is licensed to the public by contributor nicubunu under CC0 1.0 (LPD logo is a derivative from the original). • The « Linux Presentation Day » logo is licensed to the public under WTFPL (1.0). The concept for the event « Linux Presentation Day » and the idea for the logo come from Hauke Laging, the name from Philipp von der Linden. The logo was implemented by Ralf Vögtle, Annette Kalbow and Hauke Laging with Inkscape. • All photos in this document were taken in the «Bibliothèque Chiroux» (public library). They are licensed to the public by Michel Gerin under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 where explicitely specified. LPD 2016.2 06/03/2017 page 2/17

LINUX PRESENTATION DAY 2016.2 in Liège (Belgium) Main organization steps and feedback Foreword Liege Linux Team (in brief LiLiT) is a small LUG in Liège (Belgium). This document provides some informations and feedback about its Linux Presentation Day 2016.2 event. It describes roughly different steps achieved to organize it in our city. The debriefing with our partners occurred on 19th December 2016. This document was mainly created for internal purposes. We added some details bound to our region and country. We hope it is understandable for readers « external » to the LUG. It may perhaps help other associations wishing to organize such event. Note : some organization details throughout this document are written in telegraphic style. Background We received, at the end of June 2016, Hauke Laging's suggestion to organize locally the « Linux Presentation Day » event (in brief LPD). This LPD event occurs twice a year, the first takes place in spring, the second in fall. The LPD concept was developed in 2014 by a German LUG : BeLUG. « The main goal of the event is to gain more Linux users, "quite normal" users, not those for whom Linux is more suitable because of their special needs. The target group are people who know little or nothing about Linux but are interested in it a little « (ref : LPD/idea/aims). After our LUG committee approval, we solicited a public library for help. The library staff was ready to let us use two large meeting rooms in their facility (meeting room « Espace Polyvalent » and meeting room « Espace Rencontres »). Espace Polyvalent CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Espace Rencontres CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An external consultant Greg Siebrand could eventually provide a short GNU/Linux presentation. The event had to take place between 9 am and 3 pm (normal library opening hours on Saturday) on 22nd October 2016. Printed DIN A2, DIN A3 posters and flyers announcing the event within the "Semaine Numérique" (Numeric week) were also offered by the library. LPD 2016.2 06/03/2017 page 3/17