[juneau-lug] Re: Installfest (was Next meeting)

A bit more on the topic of installfest: I'll be out of town from 16 
October through 3 November.  We'll be in Taiwan, visiting family.  If 
you get a chance to hold the party, don't delay it on my account, of course!

It begins to look as if this is going to take some coordination, and 
that there will be a bit of lead time in setting it up.  Getting a 
student LUG going on campus will take time, but would be worth the 
effort.  Not only would it give us access to University facilities, but 
it would also give us access to some youthful, energetic folks with 
fewer family comitments.  Probably the student body has the highest 
concentration in town of people with time and interest in experimenting 
with new stuff, so we need to be recruiting there if we want to attract 
newbies.

I think that we don't need full-time students, right?  Your wife and her 
sister, maybe one or two of us are taking a course out there, and then 
we'd only need two or three ``real'' students  to make six.  It sounds 
do-able.

I think it might make sense to try to get a group set up on campus this 
semester, and plan for an installfest as its first big event early next 
semester.  In the mean time, of course, if someone can find a free room 
and several of us have free time, we can just go for it.  A week's 
notice would let us call the radio stations and maybe even place a 
classified ad in the in the freebies column of the newspaper.

Nels

Justin Burket wrote:

>Hi Nels,
>
>Good point about the parking situation, I hadn't thought of that :)
>
>I'm unsure when midterms will be for most students.  I'll check with my
>wife and see about when hers are scheduled, and try to get an idea of when
>would be a good time. I agree that the sooner the better, especially as
>the stress level goes up.  If we could get a Saturday room and start mid
>afternoon or so I think it would be best.  Most people don't work
>Saturdays and a mid afternoon start would help those who, umm....stayed up
>a bit late friday....to get moving.  If we have enough time in the room it
>could go for as long as need be.  Food will be a problem after awhile but
>the cafeteria would be open and of course people could probably donate
>junk food.
>
>  While I was bouncing ideas around last night I realized extra
>hard-drives would be a great help.  I'm not certain but I would imagine
>HD's could be had at the state surplus for very cheep.  They wouldn't need
>to be much, only about 3 or 4 gigs (IMHO) for a base install plus gnome or
>KDE.  This would make installs almost pain free and enable people to try
>the linux thing out without much risk to their current setup.  Does anyone
>have a stack of old IDE (and perhaps SCSI) drives they could donate?
>
>Justin
>
>
>
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