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CELEBRATE
WITH RASPBERRY PI
ON ITS BIRTHDAY!
The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend is on 5 and 6 March –
come and join in the festivities as Pi turns four
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED...
THE RASPBERRY PI
BIG BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
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Tickets:
Saturday 5 March
& Sunday 6 March 2016
10am to 5pm
Cambridge Computer
Laboratory, CB3 0FD
Saturday 5 March,
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Free for the day,
£5 for the party
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O
n 29 February 2012,
pre‐orders opened for
the Raspberry Pi. The
original production run was for
just 10,000 units. Now, nearly four
years later, the Pi has become a
global phenomenon and is still
continuing to grow.
To mark its fourth birthday,
another big celebration has
been planned for the weekend
of 5-6 March in Cambridge, the
birthplace of the Pi, and entry is
free! Like last year, the event will
be held in the Cambridge Computer
Lab and has been organised by
the co-creators of the Cambridge
Raspberry Jam (CamJam), Michael
Horne and Tim Richardson.
“Tim Richardson and I are
jointly responsible for organising
the activities during Saturday
and Sunday,” Michael tells us.
“This includes getting volunteers
to give talks, run and assist with
workshops, exhibit in the show
and tell area, and take part in
our marketplace.”
Indeed, with those four main
elements, the event will be similar
in format to last year’s party.
There will be different topics,
of course, and much of it done
by the community according to
Michael: “We rely very much on the
community to dictate the content of
much of the talks, workshops, and
show and tell. We are expecting to
6 February 2016
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