Hello,
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2016, 20:56:06 CEST schrieb Ben North:
This is a great idea
indeed. And kind of strange that this hasn't been done 10+ years ago...
I'm afraid, though, that IFSO don't currently have the resources to organise an Ireland instance of it.
Believe me, you do have them. I can say that without even knowing your situation. Several events in Germany have been organised by single people, not even backed by a LUG.
You may not have the resources to handle the national organisation, though. But in order to say that Ireland is part of the movement it would be enough to have a location there. Of course, having one locations makes it easier to find a second one or a national organiser (because it means less work for him).
It might be worth getting in touch with the Irish Linux Users Group?
I have tried to contact these:
Dublin Hackerspace TOG 20.01.2016 Dublin Unternehmen A1 Linux 20.01.2016 privates Blog Allin Gray 20.01.2016 Galway Makerspace 091 Labs 20.01.2016 Drogheda Makerspace Lightbox Lab 20.01.2016 Verein Digital Rights Ireland 13.05.2016, 15:46 Hackerspace Ireland Hacking Laboratory 15.06.2016 10:32 LUG Irish Linux Users Group 16.06.2016 22:18 Ubuntu Ireland 16.06.2016 22:36 Irish Free Software Organisation 16.06.2016 22:44
Before you only the Ireland Hacking Laboratory has answered (and Allin Gray but he cannot do anything this year). They are interested but just founding so they would help but currently not organise their own event. They have given me a list of IT associations in Ireland, though, which was useful.
From most countries I got only one or two responses whereas the first try response rate among German LUGs was about 50%. You could say, not surprising. But one UK LUG tried to find more hosting organisations in UK without any success. There are hardly any people who claim that this concept was not good but it seems to me that it is somehow more coincidence whethere there is a response or not. After all, often there is not even an answer on the mailing list of my own LUG... so that's probably not related to the LPD but just the typical behaviour.
CU
Hauke