Ben, Jarod, et. al., March 31st is rapidly approaching and I think we need to launch the "pages" so that the gnhlug group and the students at the school have enough time to order equipment at get started.
They barely have two weeks. On the other hand, they have had advanced warning and discussion. These are the web pages that Ben (mostly Ben, with some input from others) has put together: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MythFest http://www.gnhlug.org/forms/myth1.html http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MythTV I recommend the entry point being the first page, which will take people to the other two pages. There are a couple of links on the "sign-up" page that have no real linkage, and there may be one or two "linkages" on the other pages that are also orphans. Ben, maybe you can make those linkages, or remove them as linkages. Also, on the sign-up page are the statements that say that people should make backup copies of their data and that they understand that the computer will now be an appliance. I recommend strengthening that second statement and telling them in the first that "I understand all of the data and programs on all disks of the system will be destroyed." Ben, for this event, please add a field on the sign-up page for "affiliation", whether it be GNHLUG or NHTI. I would like a balanced group in this next installfest, and do not want one group overwhelming the other. Future installfests can be truly First Come First Serve (FCFS), but I want to make sure there is room for some of Sterling's faculty and staff....and likewise for some GNHLUGers. :-) Finally, when we talk about Zap2IT we typically point to the main page of Zap2IT. I would recommend pointing to the actual signup page. It is unclear from Zap2IT's pages where people are supposed to go to "sign up". If they are unsuccessful by the time of the Installfest, then we can recover, but we need to make it as sure as possible. http://www.zap2it.com/ https://www.zap2it.com/services/site/registration/show-createprofile.register Jarod, I assume that you will have a little time to work on the web pages that we used in the pilot, so they are more up-to-date by March 31st. It is a goal of mine that you should be able to relax a bit more at this event even if there are more people, and that by the final event you should be in a rocking chair, with GNHLUG "angels" doing the real work. But for right now would: o Ben take a final look at the linkages and data o Jarod review all three pages o everyone else read them for "understanding" and when you think it is ready (hopefully in the next day or two) Ben would you send out the announcement to the gnhlug-announce list and to Sterling Hough at NHTI (Sterling Hough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) with a copy to Fred at Showtime computers in Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so Fred will be aware of people who may want to buy components and what components that they might want to buy? Finally, we never had a decision what to do with the data from the "signup". For lack of a better solution, have it sent to me and I will eye-ball it for completeness and odd hardware. I will also count bodies balance GNHLUG and NHTI students and keep track of whether we are "full" or not. I am in a series of outside meetings today, tomorrow and wednesday, and as I said, I am getting worried that people will not have enough time to get their components and plan for the day. We should be "almost there", and even if we aren't, perhaps it is time to let the little bird fly. Thanks, md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
