April 19, 2009: Philadelphia Geeknic 2009 @ Betzwood Park
On March 31st PLUG member Jonathan Simpson and I had the following exchange:
< JonathanD> pleia2: lets setup a geeknic
< pleia2> geeknic?
< JonathanD> geeknic
< pleia2> define please
< JonathanD> it’s a geeky picnic!
< pleia2> oh :)
The rest was history! I was on board to start planning a geeknic. We had a date and location picked out and a wiki page set up within a couple hours:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyGeeknic2009
We reached out to local Linux and general tech groups, as well as the PhillyGeek folks to promote this, and at the time of writing we have about 30 people signed up to come out. Fantastic! Should be a fun time and I’m hopeful the weather will cooperate.
April 25-26, 2009: Trenton Computer Festival
PLUG member Kam Salisbury is doing a talk at the upcoming Trenton Computer Festival over the border in New Jersey. As part of being a speaker he was offered a table, which he offered up to use by PLUG. We were able to work things out so we got a table next to the New Jersey LoCo Team and are sharing a wiki page as the sign-up for the event.
Thus far we’re planning on having a few laptops there, one with slides and another with some Linux installs that people can check out. I’m also drafting up a little hand-out to tell people about PLUG. We’ll have some burned Ubuntu Jaunty CDs too, but instead of going with the traditional route of having them on the table for people to grab, we’ll give them out by request (we came to the conclusion that a lot of people grab “free stuff” because it’s free, so it’s not generally worth the time involved in burning a pile of CDs). Plus we’ll lean on the NJ Team as needed for more thorough Ubuntu demos.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewJerseyTeam/Events/TCF
May 2, 2009: Philadelphia Jaunty Release Party @ Manayunk Diner
In addition to a release party in Pittsburgh on April 23rd the Ubuntu US Pennsylvania team is hosting a release party in Philadelphia on May 2nd. Organized yet again by Jim Fisher (and his fantastic rolodex of local restaurant contacts) we’re getting a room for our festivities in what will essentially be a social party for folks interested in Ubuntu.
No need to sign up for this event, just show up and ask the hostess if you have trouble finding us.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyJauntyRelease
It’s shaping up for a busy series of weekends for me, but should be a lot of fun! :)