good man david! On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:55:59 +1200 David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? I like the t-shirt thing, helps ID the installers on the day. A competition for a tshirt design?. I can hopefully find details again of where I bought the t-shirts. Ben Devine had a mate who printed them. > > 5. Distributions > We need to decide which distributions will be available. > Mandrake 10.0 Official, Suse 9.1, Fedora Core 2 test 2, Debian? probably need to get closer to the date to decide on versions. > > 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. sounds like a good scheme. you do get situations where, for example, people change their mind on distro part way through an install, often for good reason. therefore you have to be flexible. > 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. can do some. > > 7. Installers > We obviously need some volunteers to do the installations. We also need > specialists in setting up peripherals like modems, scanners, cameras, etc. > count me in > 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. > there should also be the ability to get a nice written report for the day, because people get very annoyed at writing it all out again for the installer. They should be pre-printed, ready to sign, and taken straight from the database. can't be that hard (says Nick the non-preogrammer :-) > 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. > yes, as previously > Do we need to start up the installfest mailing list again, or can this all > be organised here? > yes another list would be good. if you get stuck i can host it. (mailman) > > Later > > David Kirk -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
