I'll put my hand up to organise the Installfest for this year. I have listed below the things that I think need organising. Let me know if I have missed anything.
1. Date Some time in June or July 2004. 2. Venue University of Canterbury. Zane can organise this (with the help of some students). We will need access to an Internet connection, a phone line and lots of Electricity. 3. Power and Networking We will need extension cords and multiboxes to power up all the PC's. We might also need a switch and some patch leads for people who need Internet access. We will need some phone extension cords so we can test modems. 4. Advertising Update the web site. How much money do we want to spend on advertising? Where do we want to advertise? Do we want to print some T-shirts again this year? 5. Distributions We need to decide which distributions will be available. Mandrake 10.0 Official, Suse 9.1, Fedora Core 2 test 2, Debian? 6. Media There will be none of this $5 per CD stuff. Everyone will purchase a Media Kit. Media Kits contain up to 4 CD's (depending on distro), 1 floppy disk (boot disk) and printed information about where to get help. If possible, try to fit it all in to a DVD case. Media Kits would be a fixed price of $20 each. We should also have some Knoppix CD's available for installers, so we can see what drivers it uses for some devices if we are unsure. We will need volunteers to burn the CD's. 7. Installers We obviously need some volunteers to do the installations. We also need specialists in setting up peripherals like modems, scanners, cameras, etc. 8. Booking Forms We need an online form that people can use to book in for an install. They should fill in the specifications of their computer, and list any peripherals that they want set up. The form will also warn about the danger of partitioning for dual boot configurations, and contain information about preparing their hard drive and backing up important data. 9. Printing of Posters Robert, can you do the printing again this year? 10. Post Installfest meetings A week or 2 after the Installfest we should have a fix-up meeting to help out people who either break their install or didn't get everything setup properly. We should probably have a meeting with some talks aimed at newbies the following month. Do we need to start up the installfest mailing list again, or can this all be organised here? Later David Kirk
