Nick Rout wrote: <snip>
1. Date Some time in June or July 2004.
I think that sometime around the 17 July might be good as it is one week into the second semester. But it is still early days
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.
Will start hunting around (see my earlier post)
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.
Yes, some planning here would be good as we blew a fuse last time.
4. Advertising Update the web site. How much money do we want to spend on advertising? Where do we want to advertise?
We do have money in the kitty... maybe we need a meeting.
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.
t-shirts are cool and are a good momento of the day.
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.
Everthing I've heard about Debian says it takes too long for installfests but the others sound sensible.
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.
Interesting idea.
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.
I can too.
count me in7. Installers We obviously need some volunteers to do the installations. We also need specialists in setting up peripherals like modems, scanners, cameras, etc. >
I be in too.
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.
Same as last time. Some discussion of it needs to be done tweaks and stuff. We will need somewhere to host it. Hopefully Chris H. can help again.
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 :-)
No worries (says a programmer ;-)
As we already have the code for the DB itself then adding the report stuff shouldn't be too hard. We already have some code to produce a csv file for import into a spreadsheet etc but I think we need to have a page per entry.
yes, as previously9. 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.
All sounds good.
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)
That linuxnut.co.nz one would be good.
-- 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
