Linux in the Park 2006

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Acronym: litp06

1 Activities
2 Invitations
3 Food
4 Music
5 Permits
6 Promo

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Activities

[Bickford Park] is big and beautiful ! It's part of the Garrison Creek chain of parks, and the river still runs underneath it ! A lot of fun could be had there, but in just to be sure that we won't be in conflict with baseball players and dog-people, let's concentrate our good times on the south end of the park. (that's the end with the WiFi and proximity to a cool caffe, anyhow ;-)

Go to the Activities page to see what we have planned.
Go to the Activities/discussion page, to discuss any kooky ideas.

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Invitations

Everybody's welcome, but some will "get it" more than others.

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Food

What's a day in the park without a picnic ?

Nobody brought a barbeque, so there wasn't much opportunity to eat "burnt stuff."

However, some things were brought:

Several cases of soft drinks, definitely a good thing

A pretty big bag of samosas. This was a brilliant idea, only to be improved on if someone brings the usual mint sauce another year. There are restaurants that sell four or five for a dollar; you can get a good big bag of them for $20!

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Music

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Permits

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Promo

We did it before and we're doing it again:

Saturday, August 26, 2006 2 PM to 6 PM at Bickford Park, 326 Grace Street, at Harbord Street, across from linuxcaffe. http://www.linuxcaffe.ca/contact

The agenda is still up in the air, but we have several major thrusts;

outreach

Lets use this as an occasion to introduce our hairy own selves to non-geek members of the community. Between now and then, let's identify other communities/ organizations who (whether they know it or not) would greatly benefit from some help in the Open Source department, and invite representatives for some stimulating dialog.

exchange

We got skillz and we got stuff ! Methinks it's an opportunity for a repeat of last years, highly successful, high-tech yard-sale/ swap-meet. It's also an opportunity for the larger propellers amongst us to help the newbies get their systems working properly. How about a wireless workshop ? or demos of brilliant open source apps ? (if things need infrastructure, we can shuffle groups through the caffe)

fun

and frivolity ! Let's bring games and be prepared to get silly ! (no lawn darts please !) How about a water slide ?

food

(yes, I know, this should be #1) Bar-B-Q, salads, beverages, baked good, ethnic treats, BRING IT ON ! We'll be putting together some sort of wiki to ensure that we don't end up with 67 kilos of potato salad and 2 bottles of coke ! maybe on the GTAlug site ?

just a couple of things that we're working on;