Re: Berkeley Raspberry Pi meeting March 1st -- Jam Time!

[ace36 <acohen36@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:58 PM tom r lopes <tomrlopes@gmail.com> wrote:

The weekend of Feb 29th is the 8th anniversary of the Raspberry Pi computer. 

So our meeting on March 1st will be part of that celebration.  It is already accepted 

as an official event.  https://www.raspberrypi.org/jam/ (zoom to Berkeley on the map)  

With Event page here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-raspberry-pi-jam-tickets-91996019571  I created it with only 5 tickets, because I didn't want to overwhelm the space.  But I may add tickets or instruct people to message me before attending. 

 

As an official event we get the Raspberry Pi branding kit and here it is:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jx2fmkxXACWABzbK6   Included 3 T shirts (i'll keep the L 

so XL and M up for grabs), Raspberry Pi logo stickers, one Raspberry Jam button, 

Event poster, blinking led project cards with 5 little hardware kits (breadboard, jumper 

wires and leds - No Pi, It is BYoPi, I guess) and a USB drive with project tutorials 

(one of which is how to build a WordPress site on a PI, Argh!) 

Hey, that's all great!

Just as a suggestion, would you (Tom) and/or other friends, technical

acquiantances and local Raspberry Pi aficionados consider creating

a special mailing-list perhaps even modeled after this one -- this

Googlegroup for the Berkeley Linux User Group -- specifically

dedicated to your Raspberry Pi events and projects??

There is already ongoing activity from this week's Googlegroup posts

about establishing a pi.berkeleylug.com web-presence, so the idea

of having a mailing-list separate from this one might not be too

farfetched after all... of course depending upon how many other

interested parties and local Raspberry Pi event attendees there are.

Also, and admittedly a nitpicky point, I notice that the (Tom's) March 1st

event posting is entitled 'Berkeley Raspberry Pi meeting March 1st'

as opposed to 'BerkeleyLUG Raspberry meeting March 1st'.

Are you (Tom) perhaps trying to attract all Raspberry Pi users to

your events, even including those not using Linux on their devices??

Because according to the current 'Third-party operating system images for

Raspberry Pi' section of the Downloads page https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ ,

there are Pi downloads available for the non-Linux OS's Windows 10 IoT Core

(see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/downloads ) and for

RISC OS (see https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi .)

-A

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