[TriLUG] Astronomy Days

[Michael Hrivnak]

I'm interested in helping out with this.  I am pretty involved in
amateur astronomy, use only OSS for it, and am even working on a
project of my own that will hopefully be of huge benefit to the
community.

I've volunteered at Astronomy Days a couple of times as a member of
the Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society (CHAOS).  The museum
gets a LOT of people coming through on those weekends, so it would be
a good opportunity to target a new audience.  Depending on the
weekend, I recall numbers as high as 16k visitors over two days.

Michael

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
> Astronomy Days at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh is on this
> weekend.  Last year I volunteered at the NC Nearspace Balloon table,
> where we talked to families and kids about sending stuff into space
> using helium balloons.
>
> http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/astronomy-days-0
>
> I'm sure we have some astronomy buffs in our group.
>
> If we could arrange for a table at next years Astronomy Days event to
> promote Open Source astronomy software, would TriLUG members be
> willing to man the table in shifts and talk to people about OSS (you
> will get free entry too) ?  This could be a great way to get kids
> excited about OSS because they can take home a disk or URL postcard
> and explore space at home.
>
> Yay or Nay ?
>
> Bill
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