Group: LibrePlanet South Florida

LibrePlanet South Florida
Note	South Florida group for Free Software Users and Activists
Region	North America
Area	United States of America
Available language(s)	English
Contact	Roberto Beltran
Current status	Active

Join Us!

Stake your claim as part of South Florida's free software community. Membership is gratis and we offer the following benefits and services:

Fun workshops and presentations
Libre software recommendations
Technical support for GNU
Hardware recommendations
Tutoring for libre programming languages

If you would like to be listed as a member, make an account here and email your username to Roberto so he can create your user profile page. If you know how to edit wikis, you can also make three edits to get page creation privileges. Either way, you can attend any of our activities or use any official channel listed below to get involved.

Monthly Meet-up

We meet every first Saturday of the month at Northeast Dade – Aventura branch library, in the cafe area.

Regular Programming

4:00–4:45pm Libre Help Desk 💻
4:45–5:00pm Announcements 🙋
5:00pm–5:45pm Social 🎮

More information about programs below.

Venue Information

Address

2930 Aventura Blvd. Aventura, FL 33180

Directions

Take exit 16 (Ives Dairy Road) off I-95 and go east
Use the middle lane to go over the bridge
Make a right on NE 29th Place
Cross NE 191st ST – the library is on the right.

Public Transit

Lots of buses stop nearby

Metrobus: 3, 9, E, S/119, 120, 93, 95, 99, 183
Broward: 1, 28, US1 Breeze

Official Channels

Want to get in touch?

Mastodon: @lpsofla@mastodon.social
Matrix: #lpsofla:matrix.org

Upcoming events

Sep 7 - First Meet-up!

Programs

Libre Help Desk

Whether you have issues with your GNU installation, need programming help, or have question about what to use, at Libre Help Desk you'll find a kind volunteer ready to assist.

Announcements

Come see what we are working on, get involved and give feedback.

Libre Social

Play libre games, show off your libre projects, or just chat and enjoy some light refreshments.

Resources

Here are pages on the wiki we pioneered and our handouts. Feel free to distribute the handouts, but we ask that you please not post or leave them anywhere if you do not have permission to do so.

Pages

Making money as a libre software programmer

Handouts

Goals

Here are some metrics we're hoping to achieve

Recruit members. Reevaluate: 6 members

Form relationships with other local organizations and events. Reevaluate: 1 relationship

Increase libre software and GNU awareness. Reevaluate: 50% awareness (half surveyed know what libre software and GNU is)

Increase libre software adoption. Reevaluate: 5% GNU on personal computers (1 in 20 surveyed that have a personal computer run GNU on one of them)

To-do

This is a to-do list of tasks that will help us reach our goals. Make sure to let us know if you can help with any of these tasks!

Choose a venue to hold monthly user group meetings
Make a list of all upcoming events where it might make sense to have a presence
Choose advocacy materials
Make/get copies of advocacy materials
Take a baseline survey

Members

Lead Organizer: Roberto Beltran

Orange Shark

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