[Noisebridge-discuss] RaspberryPi Foundation US Hackspace Roadshow

[Rob Bishop]

Hi,

I hope this is the right mailing list to send this to. Please contact
me at rob.bishop at raspberrypi.org if the following would interest your
members.

The RaspberryPi Foundation is looking to tour popular US hackspaces in
September 2012 with the aim of giving talks and workshops about the
RaspberryPi to both members and RaspberryPi users in the local community.

In case you haven't heard of us, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable
organisation founded with the aim of promoting the study of computer science
and related topics, especially at school level. The Foundation is
responsible for the design and sales of the popular RaspberryPi single-board
computer. You can find out more about the Foundation and the RaspberryPi
here.

We would be very interested in staging an event at your hackspace consisting
of the following;

Talk:
RaspberryPi: Past, Present & Future - An introduction to the RaspberryPi,
including an overview of its history and development, details on the
technical specification and an outline of future developments with many cool
tech demos along the way. Followed by a Q&A session.

Tech Demos:
A chance to demonstrate various OS's, new revisions of the Pi and the latest
add-on expansion hardware.

Workshop:
A Taste of RaspberryPi - A chance to play with the RaspberryPi hands-on.

Show & Tell / Prizes:
An opportunity to display RaspberryPi projects from the community with
prizes for notable projects.

The tour will be blogged/vlogged on the RaspberryPi website and will
hopefully attract RaspberryPi enthusiasts and hackers/makers from across the
areas we will be visiting, providing your hackspace with lots of worldwide
publicity.

Please let us know if you would be interested in being involved as we'd love
to come to your hackspace to talk to you and your members.

Best Regards,

Rob Bishop
RaspberryPi Foundation

On 9 August 2012 21:44, Rob Bishop <rob.bishop at raspberrypi.org> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> September 19th works great for us. I'm very flexible on how long the session
> can last. How long would a normal evening session go on for? Maybe enough
> time for a short talk, Q&A then brief hands-on workshop?
>
> Rob
>
> On 8 Aug 2012, at 23:02, Eric Skiff <me at ericskiff.com> wrote:
>
> Awesome, would the evening of the 19th work for you? How long do you expect
> the event to go?
>
> -E
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Rob Bishop <rob.bishop at raspberrypi.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> We've currently scheduled the Hackspace tour to take place during
>> 16th-30th September. Which dates would be best for you within that period?
>> Ideally we want to get the best possible attendance for the event so would
>> appreciate your advice on which days work best with your members.
>>
>> We're hoping that each Hackspace will handle the publicity/organisation
>> for their own event with the RaspberryPi Foundation using our website to
>> encourage other interested people from the community to come and join in
>> along with your members. Hopefully this way we can generate lots of good
>> press for you guys and potentially draw in some new members for you.
>>
>> Once we've confirmed a date (tricky at this point as I need to fit in
>> visiting both East and West Coast during that time) it would be great if you
>> could set up an Eventbrite page and start the publicity ball rolling. We'll
>> then post the dates and locations of the tour on the RaspberryPi website and
>> try to drum up interest from the community. It might be useful to ensure we
>> have some kind of signup to ensure we don't get overrun!
>>
>> As for OpenGL ES, I've worked on the library/driver used on the Pi so can
>> try to help you out, but your best bet for a quick response is probably
>> through the forums! :-)
>>
>> Best,
>> Rob
>>
>> On 8 Aug 2012, at 20:10, Eric Skiff <me at ericskiff.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rob! Wonderful to hear from you. I think I'm the resident Pi enthusiast
>> at the space, but I know a lot of Resistors are excited about it. I've got a
>> Pi and I'm working on a project as we speak (I'd actually love some advice
>> on finding the right people to ask about some issues I'm having getting
>> Stellarium to build with custom flags for OpenGL ES)
>>
>> I think an event in september sounds fantastic, and I'd love to help.
>> Hopefully I'll have a sweet little project of my own to demo by then as well
>> :) I'll need check with the rest of the members, but I doubt anyone will
>> object to us running an event on an open weeknight (a weds would be great)
>> or on a weekend.
>>
>> What's the next step for coordinating the meetup at our space? We usually
>> use Eventbrite to handle signups, but are happy to use another system if
>> you're coordinating.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Eric
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rob Bishop <rob.bishop at raspberrypi.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The RaspberryPi Foundation is looking to tour popular US hackspaces in
>>> September 2012 with the aim of giving talks and workshops about the
>>> RaspberryPi to both members and RaspberryPi users in the local community.
>>>
>>> In case you haven't heard of us, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a
>>> charitable organisation founded with the aim of promoting the study of
>>> computer science and related topics, especially at school level. The
>>> Foundation is responsible for the design and sales of the popular
>>> RaspberryPi single-board computer. You can find out more about the
>>> Foundation and the RaspberryPi here.
>>>
>>> We would be very interested in staging an event at your hackspace
>>> consisting of the following;
>>>
>>> Talk:
>>>
>>> RaspberryPi: Past, Present & Future - An introduction to the RaspberryPi,
>>> including an overview of its history and development, details on the
>>> technical specification and an outline of future developments with many cool
>>> tech demos along the way. Followed by a Q&A session.
>>>
>>> Tech Demos:
>>>
>>> A chance to demonstrate various OS's, new revisions of the Pi and the
>>> latest add-on expansion hardware.
>>>
>>> Workshop:
>>>
>>> A Taste of RaspberryPi - A chance to play with the RaspberryPi hands-on.
>>>
>>> Show & Tell / Prizes:
>>>
>>> An opportunity to display RaspberryPi projects from the community with
>>> prizes for notable projects.
>>>
>>> The tour will be blogged/vlogged on the RaspberryPi website and will
>>> hopefully attract RaspberryPi enthusiasts and hackers/makers from across the
>>> areas we will be visiting, providing your hackspace with lots of worldwide
>>> publicity.
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you would be interested in being involved as we'd
>>> love to come to your hackspace to talk to you and your members.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Rob Bishop
>>> RaspberryPi Foundation
>>>
>>
>>
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