On Friday 21 April 2006 15:04, simon wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:50:32PM -0600, bogi wrote: > > Suggestion: > > > > Can we hold a meeting, bring isos and media , divide isos and media > > among people. Go home, burn the disks, CDs and DVDs and bring those back > > the next day for the second part of the team to test and label. > > Suggestion for place Chenook food court ...
> I think that the four distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva and FC) > gives us sufficient varity to please all. <snip/> WHAT??? no Gentoo??? OMG!!! :) Just kidding, wrong type of distro for the target crowd (this year). > Regarding platform split - I think: > 75% - x86 (Mandriva is x586) > 20% - x86-64 > 5% - Mac/PPC With regards to platforms, I would suggest just sticking with x86 and x86_64. The important thing is to make people aware there are other options. In all the installfests, I think I've been asked for ONE ppc disk. > I've spoke with Shawn, who has picked up some CD labels, so I'll do some > graphics for distros as above this weekend. Is someone able to color > laser print them or shall I do a B&W option? Further to this, I have picked up 200 CDs, 160 CD Labels, and a CD Label starter kit (apparently you can't get the "stomper" seperately). The label kit uses a different brand of labels, but does add an additional 50 labels. In addition, I have approx 50 DVDs and another 100 CDs from my bookshelf which can be donated. There are just TOO many distros out there. We know from previous experience (at the Installfests), that burning CDs on demand is way too time consuming. It's better to have some pre-burned copies, and show/explain how to find the ISOs and burn them to those that need something not covered. So my suggestion would be to stick with some well known distros (DSL is well known for lightweight systems) and maybe put together a page that explains how to get and burn an ISO. I like the idea of the burning party. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
