[wlug_org] 2005 Weligton Installfest...

[Brent Wood]

Hi Jamie...

Glad you can contribute again....

> 
> Count me in. I can probably do presos again (family willing). And herd
> cats. and stuff.
> 
> We need to find some distrodudes to sort things for each nominated
> distro.
>
> We have:
> 1 Debian
> 2 Mandriva 
> 3 Fedora 
> 4 SUSE 
> 5 Gentoo
> 6 Damn Small
> 7 Slackware
> 
> to choose from (according to distrowatch)
> 
> If we want to time things, then Ubuntu are releasing Breezy Badger in
> October and it will take some time (4-6 weeks) for delivery. Hmm. OK,
> bad idea. September it is.

I'm basically a SuSE bloke these days, I'll chase up Novell as well, they
should be keen to come on board. I don't think Gentoo, Slackware or DamnSmall
are really appropriate for an Installfest, but if someone wants to take it on,
that's OK with me :-)

> We should post to the mainlist and see if we have any takers for
> distrodude.(or dudette as the case may be).

Yep, I wanted a core team from this list first, as they will prob do most of
the work anyway. Then notify the main list & ask for help.

I'll sort out : Silicon
                DSE
                Dymock's
                Novell

I'll need to confirm a date with Silicon ASAP.

Hopefully we can get some publicity through the OS day or whatever it is, Sept
10? When ballons & things are being given away- we should try to make sure we
have LiveCD's & demo's ready for then as well....  

I'll see if I can make a custom LiveCD from my GIS one, but drop the GIS stuff
& have an installfest presentation run from it. Should be simpler than
installing Linux on DSE boxes to do it like last time.

I'll get the CD basically ready to go, & just stick your (Jamie) presentation
on it & burn a few copies....

Any concerns/comments? 



I think a presentation on Linux/GIS with the Wgtn LiveCD as a giveaway could be
worth doing, esp if we can say there is a Novell/Min Education initiative to
supply it to schools. People like finding their house & address. But I have a
biased interest in this one :-)

We have Mandriva & SuSE installers, I assume an Ubuntu one will turn up from
the Debian camp. 

I think 3 distros, with 2 LiveCD distros (PCLinuxOS & Knoppix) is enough.

> 
> Brent - can you organise dimocks like last time?

As above...

> I'll sort flyers too huh?
>
Sweet! & printing of CD's again???

> I'll also do media again too. 

I'll let the other sponsors know, esp Novell, to get in touch with you over
this aspect?? A note to PC World as soon as we have a date/venue, but we may
already be short of time on that... 


Spotcha....

   Brent