[wellylug] Installfest 2008???

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Mon Jun 30 22:21:18 NZST 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:31 -0700, pcreso at pcreso.com wrote:
> The list seems much quieter these days, with fewer contributors (apart
> from the recent foray into document formats for job applications :-).
> So I'm not sure how much interest or support there is for an
> installfest type event this year.
> 
> Since I'm around Wgtn this year (except for a week in August where I'm
> presenting papers on FOSS at a conference in Rio :-) I figured I'd see
> if there is enough interest around to organise an Installfest this
> year.
> 
> The trend for the last few was more about answering enquiries, demo's,
> presentations than actually doing installs, so if we are interested in
> doing something, ideally in association with Software Freedom Day in
> Sept,
> we'll need to sort out what the format will be, & get enough
> volunteers to make it work.

> Comments/concerns/volunteers???

I'm keen to help out - technical work, presentations and organisation
are probably my best suited areas.


Last time I found most of the technical work was helping people out with
tasks such as fixing wifi cards, or some other piece of hardware.

It seems that with the ease of use of modern Linux distributions, new
users are able to give it a try themselves and just need a bit of help
getting certain problems fixed.

The demos were very popular, definitely something we should continue to
have.

The idea of doing an expo has been floated around a bit, but I don't
think we have enough dedicated people with enough free time to do this.
(happy to be proved wrong tho)


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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