[Fsuk-manchester] Success: Chorlton's Big Green Festival (Saturday gone)

[Michael Dorrington]

MFS's presence at Chorlton's Big Green Festival was a massive success.
The event was heavily attended and masses of people funnelled past our
stall due to its fortunate position. The event goers were very receptive
to the Free Software philosophy and it was a pleasure promoting the
philosophy. The event ties in well with the April talk by Richard
Smedley on Free Software in the Voluntary Sector and there was a lot of
interest in this. The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote
the Free Software philosophy and this event successfully did this. We
will be there next year.

Not only that, we also had a lot of fun! It was great meeting all the
people, each with their different level of experience of Free Software
and the Free Software philosophy. People were happy to meet us and glad
we were there. We had fun sampling the lovely food and drink. And the
event had lots of interesting things like dancing, singing and hula-hooping!

I would like thank:
Richard Smedley for notifying the group about the festival, booking the
stall, helping set up and doing excellent Free Software promotion during
the day. I think Richard was in his element.
Leslie for storing our merchandise, helping us transport it the event,
helping set up, doing excellent Free Software promotion during the day,
being fun, helping tear down and tidy up, and storing merchandise again.
Luke, for helping run the event especially for giving people a break at
lunch, for his questions and being Luke, doing excellent Free Software
promotion during the day and helping with tear down and tidy up.

Regards,
Mike.
MFS Chair.

Michael Dorrington wrote:
> What: MFS stall at Chorlton's Big Green Festival
> Date: Saturday, 27th March 2010
> Time: 8:30am-9:30am setup, 11am-4pm running stall
> Where: St Clement's church, "St Clement's is located in the
> Chorlton-cum-Hardy suburb of south Manchester"
> Website: http://greenchorlton.org.uk/
> Why: MFS to help and attend at the Chorlton's Big Green Festival 2010.
> We can promote the free software philosophy, explain how this can enable
> them "to live a more sustainable lifestyle", promote MFS and help people
> get into free software .
> 
> A reminder that MFS are running a stall at Chorlton's Big Green Festival
> on Saturday. If you want to help running the stall that would be great,
> please get in touch. Otherwise just come along and support. :)
> 
> Regards,
> Mike.
> 
> Michael Dorrington wrote:
>> Richard Smedley wrote:
>>>  Chorlton's Big Green Festival is on 27 March.
>>> How about a stall highlighting the environmental
>>> & community benefits of FOSS?
>>> http://www.en4m.org.uk/?q=node/1640
>>>  - Richard
>>
>> Hi Richard
>>
>> Looks like we have interest from the group in helping out. I've created
>> a page for the event on our wiki including a list of those wanting to
>> attend to promote free software.
>> http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/ChorltonBigGreenFestival2010
>>
>> MFS should have their own stall. I think we come under "Community
>> group/Individual offering non-profit service" in which case the stall is
>> "Free" but would mean we couldn't sell books? Else we could sell books
>> and pay the £15. Could you sort it out and book it for us? MFS will
>> reimburse if necessary.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike.
>> MFS Chair