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= Software Freedom Day, Saturday 21 September 2013 = == Organising committee == Brett James, Duncan Macneil and Ben Sturmfels. == Venue == Art Gallery of Ballarat Annexe 10am - 1pm looks very suitable. Approximate cost $200 inc GST and public liability insurance. Seating for up to 130. To be confirmed whether AV gear setup is extra. == Funding == Duncan is approaching Matt Morris at Ballarat ICT. == Schedule of the day ideas == Brett suggested some time for Q&A. === Ben's schedule brainstorm === I'm totally open to and very interested to hear your ideas. The targets I've aimed for here: * something for people new to Free Software * something to reunite the BLUG community * opportunity to meet people over food 09:00: Set up 10:00: Doors open 10:30: Introductory talk on Free Software (30 mins) 11:10: Talk demoing a range of Free Software alternatives (30 mins) 11:50: Discussion workshop: Building the Hackerspace/Free Software community in Ballarat (30 mins) 12:30: Discussion workshop: Encouraging diversity (eg. gender, technical knowledge, disability, spoken language) 13:00: Pack up 13:30: Community lunch at a nearby restaurant that students can afford, eg. pizza. This is based on the assumption that we'll only have one space to work with. If we had enough room to split off, we could do something like run two workshops in parallel and give more discussion time. 30 mins isn't very long. == Speakers == (Ben) I'd be very happy to given an introductory talk on free software. I've done this at three previous Software Freedom Days in Melbourne and I think it's gone quite well. == Marketing ideas == * 3BA community events * Mix FM have something similiar * City of Ballarat events listings * BLUG mailing list - I have access to a copy from Josh * Comp Sci/ICT dept at University of Ballarat * Comp Sci/ICT dept at ACU * IT teachers at various secondary schools * Carolynne Hamdorf LEAP (Duncan knows) * Tourism Ballarat * Malcolm Valance at Tech Park (Duncan knows) * [[http://www.reddit.com/r/ballarat|Ballarat subreddit]] * Ballarat Courier? * Matt Morris at Ballarat ICT (Duncan knows) Ben runs the [[http://www.sfd.org.au/|sfd.org.au]] website. Our event is also [[http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Australia/Victoria/Ballarat|registered]] on the international [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/|Software Freedom Day]] website. == Individuals to personally invite (aka. VIPs) == These are people who deserve a personal invitation to the event (a personal invitation is a lot more powerful than a bulk email). I suggest we collect a list here of people that should be invited. Some may be interested in helping out on the day too. * Josh Stewart * Sae Ra Germain * Michael Ellery * Kathy Reid (Geelong) - she'd be awesome to moderate a discussion workshop == Building up to a bigger event for next year == If we're looking to build this event up for next year and say get a grant from City of Ballarat, it would be a good idea to have: * good quality photos of the day - anyone know an enthusiastic amateur photographer? * a count of numbers for the day * a way of collecting some contact details for announcing the 2014 event * possibly a brief followup survey - "how likely are you to recommend this event to a friend?"