Ubuntu release party Holland

[Charles N Wyble]

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Willem Hellinga wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> Thanks to Bartek from Belgium I found this mailing list and this is my
> first mail to it.

Welcome to the list! :)

> 
> Being the organiser of an Ubuntu release party in the Netherlands on 27
> Oktober this year, my heart begins the beat faster when I think of all
> the things that can go wrong.

Certainly many things can go wrong, but hopefully we can help you
minimize those things :)

> 
> I simply cannot predict the amount of people that might come to the
> party. Nobody can of course, but if you did this thing before, can you
> give me some idea about what to expect.

Can you tell us a little bit about your community? Are you part of a LUG
(that would probably be the base amount of people that come give or
take), plus any friends they invite.



> 
> About 60 people that already use Ubuntu have put themselves on the wiki
> page. That makes about 80 including their partners etc.

Wow. Very cool.

> We spread 2500 flyers over the nation, hung up 150 posters all around
> and every day there is a message on the dutch forum.
> The dutch media has been send messages about the event, we have many
> sponsors, the local and country-wide papers will have articles about the
> party and we will advertise in a free paper the week before the party.

Wow wow wow. That is so cool! Good job. :)

> We have 6 speakers, a famous dutch man, a member of parliament, a member
> of the Amsterdam city-council, a linux-writer, an open-source writer and
> of course our teamleader who will tell the dutch about the birth of
> Gutsy.

Wow! You really did a good job putting this together.

> 
> Please help me calculate, so my nights will be used for sleeping again
> instead of worrying ;-)

Well as I said above, the local LUG will certainly seed membership, and
it sounds like you have some heavy hitters coming. Most likely you will
have media coverage as well.

What kind of venue are you holding this in?

I am attempting to organize a release party in Los Angeles, and as its a
large city with many existing and potential ubuntu users, I would like
to get as much information as possible on how to hold a large scale
release party. Sounds like you have a lot of good information and track
record for this!

> 
> Sincerely,
>  
> Willem Hellinga
> 
> 

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