[wlug_org] 2005 Weligton Installfest...

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 18:22 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> Hi Jamie...
> 
> Glad you can contribute again....

> > We have:
> > 1 Debian
> > 2 Mandriva 
> > 3 Fedora 
> > 4 SUSE 

> I'll sort out : Silicon
>                 DSE
>                 Dymock's
>                 Novell
> 
> I'll need to confirm a date with Silicon ASAP.

I'd like to throw a spanner in the works. I'm going to approach IBM for
their Willis St site. It's extremely well set up for this kind of thing.
Thoughts on that?

> 
> Hopefully we can get some publicity through the OS day or whatever it is, Sept
> 10?

OS day?

http://softwarefreedomday.org/

good idea. I hope we have enough time. (1 month from now)


> 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.

? huh?

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

Sure.
> 
> 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. 

debian=ubuntu.

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

We'll see if we have any Fedora pimps.

> 
> > 
> > Brent - can you organise dimocks like last time?
> 
> As above...
> 
> > I'll sort flyers too huh?
> >
> Sweet! & printing of CD's again???

CD's were a pain in the ass. We should see if we can get someone else to
do that.

> 
> > 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?? 

Yes. Once we're clear on a date.

> A note to PC World as soon as we have a date/venue, but we may
> already be short of time on that... 

Sure. I'll wind up Juha Saarinen and The bloke at the dom.