On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:19, Douglas Royds wrote: > Roughly what is involved in organising the fix-up session? Nothing much, we just put out the call a few days before the event. At this particular venue we have 3 trestle tables available an also a billard table with a wooden cover. We can accommodate 8 victims without too much difficulty.
> We can put out a call for volunteers and victims a bit closer to the time. yes > People should BYO extension leads and multiboxes. yes > Do we need an additional hub/switch and network leads? yes > What about tables & chairs? no, there are sufficient at the hall. > If someone wants to do a first-time install, can we have Suse disks > available (only by pre-order)? I, personally, do have any. You will have to organise that for yourself. > There are a few of the installer disks > (with qtParted) floating around from the Installfest (I have one). Indeed. > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:02, Rik Tindall wrote: > >>Chris, how have you gotten on with the St Albans booking? > >>If you go for the last week of October or the first week in November, > >>that would place it cleanly between the next two Sydenham meetings. > > > > We now have a booking for the St. Albans Community Centre on:- > > > > Wednesday 27th October 2004 at 7:30 > > > > The current plan is to have an AGM type meeting to decide whether we wish > > to move to St. Albans for our meetings, and to elect a bunch of > > suckers^H^H^H^H a group of esteemed members to be your committee. > > > > As there are two rooms, and group politics are not always to everybody's > > taste, we could have a concurrent fix-ups session. There are two members > > who have indicated to me that want to continue working with their Gentoo > > setups. There is also an ordinary POTS line so modems could be > > configured. > > > >>Looking forward to some highspeed access.. > > > > Don't get too over enthusiastic, it's only Jetstart at 128 KBits. > > Hopefully we will be able to re-jig the router to give full speed to > > linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz ( Anybody know how to do this? ) [ idiotic addendum elided ] -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
