Hi all We will be going, probably just for the Saturday, will be good to see a few people there. It is definitely worth going to, I have attended a few over the years in Liverpool, Sheffield, so Manchester is a handy location. You can sit back and listen to talks or walk around the stalls chatting, there's usually a few freebies, a raffle and interesting FOSS projects happening. Worth a visit if anyone can make it! On Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 16:30 Steven Maddox via StaffsLUG General < general(a)lists.staffslug.org.uk&gt; wrote: > Good news! > > I only found out last week... but OggCamp has finally come back after 5 > years! (and it's at the same venue in Manchester as before). > > For those that didn't go in 2019... take a look at the photos and > information we wrote up at the last one... > > https://staffslug.org.uk/trip-oggcamp-2019/ > > You can find all the details for OggCamp 2024 here... > > https://oggcamp.org/ > > A bunch of us will be going to the 1st day (of this 2 day event)... so > that means Saturday 12th October. If people want to stick around until > the day after for more talks... then that's a choice too, or go back > home - whichever. > > I'm CC'ing in the ORG Stoke & FSFE Potteries mailing lists... mostly > because it was the trip to OggCamp in 2019 that these groups started! > > Also CC'ing Potteries Hackspace as I know we found a few people had gone > to it last time too... so trying to get the word out it's back on! > > Despite the strange sounding name of 'OggCamp'... it's basically several > conference rooms in hotel, with near by places to eat/drinks, raffles > and games, stalls of other interesting groups (like Open Rights Group, > hackspaces, people from podcasts, etc...)... and you just have a wander > around and take it all in. > > But the main point is that it's an "unconference"... which is where you > look at what talks are going to occur (and when) for each conference > room and just wander in to whichever ones take your interest. Nothing > corporate... just basically what we do with our workshop presentations, > but on a much bigger scale... with lots of them going on at once. They > publish the list of talks much closer to (or potentially on the day, not > sure!?) but you'll be sure to find something to interest you. > > Obviously it's all about open source / standards / hardware, networking, > digital rights, free software, etc... > > It's really worth it if you can make it... and the ticket price is more > of a donation, so just give what you can to support their work. > > We've already got a few people in the LUG who are going... and it's > likely we'll take the train (as we did in 2019)... unless there is a lot > of us and maybe someone might fancy driving a mini bus?! > > Let me know if you're thinking of joining us! > > -- > Steven Maddox > Lantizia > _______________________________________________ > StaffsLUG General mailing list -- general(a)lists.staffslug.org.uk > To unsubscribe send an email to general-leave(a)lists.staffslug.org.uk > _______________________________________________ StaffsLUG Trips mailing list -- trips(a)lists.staffslug.org.uk To unsubscribe send an email to trips-leave(a)lists.staffslug.org.uk