On Friday 12th June, Repair Cafe International is running a webinar on starting a Linux Repair Cafe:
The webinar will explain how Linux Repair Cafés work and how you can start one yourself. We will share lessons learned and best practice examples, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
Amazing. Thank you Neil!
If you need any help, I have been a UNIX sys admin since early 1990’s, so very comfortable and experienced with various linux distributions.
Thanks @Rakesh_B ! The webinar is being run by Repair Cafe International, not ourselves, but very handy to know about your Unix and Linux experience for future reference 
Are you kidding me. Did I just get an Micro$haft teams invite for a Linux Repair cafe event LOL
It’s not going very well so far. M$ Teams has not allowed the moderators to mute everyone and we spent the first 10 minutes listening to distorted noises from random people’s mics. Every new joiner interrupts with noise and has to be asked to mute.
It’s all a bit simplistic and even condescending, considering the audience is pretty technical. So far. Nearly half-way in though. Maybe there are a lot of event organisers who have no idea, but then they are going to need techies to implement this. Seems to me that this is awkwardly pitched.
The “starter kit” is all about a single distro - Mint Linux, which is perhaps a bit of a narrow point of view. It costs 49 euro.
The chat is far more interesting than the presentation! 
This was acknowledged right at the start of the Q&A, they were surprised by the very technical audience. I was not surprised, of all the event organisers I’ve met they are not interested in niche techie events.
Anyway, it smoothed out a bit for the 2nd half and the final Q&A was good. The chat was still the most interesting thing.
I left in the end. Maybe this project is good for people who do not know much about Linux. But for someone who made a livelihood designing fault tolerant UNIX and later Linux systems, this was a waste of time. Should have known what to expect when they sent an invite to the event on Microsoft teams. Up to the point when I left no one with any deep tech experience had spoken. One person who seemed to have some knowledge answered one question when the others could not. Sounds like it git better by the end. Ms teams crashed in me and I could not be bothered to try and reconnect.
Maybe putting the word “Linux” in the title is not the best way to pitch something like this, it always attracts Linux fans like moths to a flame war. Arguments about which is the best distro to use is par for the course. Probably the worst PR for Linux are the Linux enthusiasts! 
Ah well, lessons learned I guess.
Thanks Monique and Rakesh for reporting back! A shame to hear that the content didn’t quite hit the mark for who it was pitched at. Good reminder to be clear who information is intended for in advance. (I might tweak our own End of 10 guide slightly, it’s more pitched at organisers in the main text and links out to more technical details, but could be clearer at the top of the page.)
