There probably wouldn't be much point in doing unless
there was some publicity and that often _necessarily_
costs money.

A proposal that we should consider though.


Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> I see NZLUG are having an installfest on 30 March. I am vaguely
> wondering whether we should have one sometime.??
> 
> I am thinking:
> 
> 1. one or two grunty ftp servers to let people without cdroms install.
> Put maybe 3 or 4 distros on the ftp servers then let people plug into  a
> lan and go for it.
> 
> 2. someone writing cdroms for people to take away, or install on the
> spot.
> 
> 3. a group of people running around helping with problems.
> 
> Requirements?
> 
> 1. a couple of big (16 port?) hubs with plenty of patch cords.
> 2. a machine with enough grunt and disk space to ftp up 3 or 4 different
> distros
> 3. another machine to write cdroms.
> 4. internet connection for trouble shooting, getting updates, testing
> etc (plus firewall of course)
> 5. some prewritten boot disks for ftp installs.
> 6. lotsa bench space.
> 7. the bods to run it
> --
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.rout.co.nz

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