On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:55:48 +1200 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good on yer Dave! > > I will be making motions over here. > I think that one of the UCSA common rooms would be preferable during > mid-winter but we will need a student (i.e. a UCSA member) to make the > formal booking. Mike JS? Could you help out there? > Hopefully it will be free or if not then pretty cheap. > > Will start asking around for faculty and IT dept sponsorship so we can > get some internet bandwidth/volume. > > Are we going to use the same registration mechanism system we used > before? If so we will need a host. We might be able to use linuxnut.co.nz. > Chris Hellyar are you out there? I have feeling Chris H got rid of that domain (refer archives....). > > A separate maillist might also be in order. > > A meat-space meeting might also be a "Good Thing"(tm) > > > David Kirk 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? > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer > Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, > University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha > Private Bag 4800, > Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
