Sweet, see you there.<div><br></div><div>Callum<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Jethro Carr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">hi all,<br>
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Software Freedom Day Wellington is tomorrow (Sunday 20th September),<br>
this email is just summarising some of the events taking place and what<br>
will be available as well as important info for attendees and install<br>
team.<br>
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WHEN TO COME<br>
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If you want to take part in other events during the day, I recommend you<br>
arrive between 8:30 & 9:30am, since there is an "intro to the SFD" talk<br>
at 9:30am.<br>
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If you are bringing your computer along to get an install done, it's<br>
best if you arrive any time after 9:30am. If you arrive before then it's<br>
ok, but we might still be getting the networks up and running etc.<br>
<br>
The installfest is in Lion Harper Lounge 2, there will be a map<br>
provided, from the reg desk go across the sky bridge, past the coffee<br>
machine, past the hackfest/OLPC people and around the curved room till<br>
you come to the area with tables and geeks with Linux PCs ;-)<br>
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WHEN TO GO<br>
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The installfest finishes at 4:30pm, there is then a wrap up for the<br>
whole conf, including prize draw.<br>
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Afterwards there is a networking session at Mac's Brewery that anyone is<br>
welcome to attend.<br>
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STUFF TO BRING (ATTENDEES)<br>
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Please bring your computer (inc screen, keyboard, mouse, and power<br>
cables if required).<br>
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It is also appreciated if you bring along your ethernet cable, since we<br>
don't have many spares.<br>
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Cafenet wifi tokens will be provided to attendees, we expect to also<br>
have a 24-port switch with a laptop doing ethernet-to-wifi bridging (as<br>
well as proxy to increase update performance).<br>
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LINUX-RELEVANT EVENTS AT SFD<br>
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There is a *lot* of stuff going on at SFD:<br>
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/Schedule" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/Schedule</a><br>
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In particular, the following is on at the installfest:<br>
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11:00am - 11:30am Introduction to Linux (by Jethro Carr)<br>
<br>
My talk is aimed at people who have heard of Linux but who aren't really<br>
familiar with what it is all about or the specifics.<br>
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11:30am - 12:00 Linux & OSS at Amberdms (by Jethro Carr)<br>
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I will also be doing a lightning talk sometime between 11:30 - 12:00<br>
about the use of Linux & OSS to run at my startup (<a href="http://www.amberdms.com" target="_blank">www.amberdms.com</a>)<br>
which may be of interest to some. This will be in a different<br>
area of the SFD venue though, not in the same area as the installs.<br>
<br>
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<br>
2:00pm - 3:00pm Getting up to speed with Silverstripe (by Will Rossiter & Simon Welsh)<br>
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SilverStripe is a open source website content management system and<br>
development framework. It embraces a flexible, modern system<br>
architecture enabling users to implement powerful websites and<br>
web-applications quickly.<br>
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This session will cover how to setup SilverStripe on your computer,<br>
getting started with modules and provide a chance for you to ask<br>
questions and talk with experienced SilverStripe developers.<br>
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PRIZES<br>
<br>
There are some pretty cool prizes, including ones specially for<br>
secondary/tertiary students:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/Prizes" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/Prizes</a><br>
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OPERATING SYSTEMS<br>
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Official Printed Media:<br>
* Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop x86 Live/Install CD<br>
* OpenSolaris 2009.06 x86/x64 Live CD<br>
* SuSe Linux Enterprise 10 (evaluation version, 60days updates only)<br>
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ISOs that I will have available:<br>
* Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop ppc CD<br>
* Fedora 11 - x86, x86_64, ppc (DVD versions)<br>
* CentOS 5.3 - x86 and x86_64 (DVD versions)<br>
* SystemRescue CD<br>
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If you want anything else, email me before midnight and I can download<br>
it for you (got to have something to spend my 120GB cap on....) ;-)<br>
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There will be a USB DVD writer/reader which can be used to burn ISOs as<br>
well as to install Linux onto systems without optical drives.<br>
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HELPERS<br>
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I know that there are a number of people who will be helping during the<br>
day, please identify yourselves to me when you arrive.<br>
<br>
If you don't know who I am, look for the guy with long hair and a Linux<br>
t-shirt ;-)<br>
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regards,<br>
jethro<br>
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Jethro Carr<br>
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<a href="http://www.amberdms.com" target="_blank">www.amberdms.com</a><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Callum Grant<br>
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