On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:13 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > On 4/5/06, Craige McWhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been > > a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think > > about. > > November 2004, admittantly. We found that the last few Installfests we > ran were attracting fewer and fewer people.
I think the attendances at the last couple were more a result of slipshod planning and publicity than a paradigm shift in Linux installation. I'm allowed to say that, because I ran them. :-P I think you'll still find that a well-run, and very well publicised event will get a huge turnout. I see two main groups of attendees. - People who've already tried, and for one reason or another are having trouble with their install. This is usually some obscure bit of hardware, or a cantankerous laptop install. - People who've never actually done an install before. They don't yet know how much of a no-brainer it is to get up and running. > We're looking at holding another Installfest this year combined with a > Deckfest, so it'll give people an install and information about the > apps on their desktop. Attempts to combine the two in the past have always fallen slightly short for resourcing reasons. We've never really had the space and/or enough volunteers and/or a properly organised strategy for dealing with the "hey, look what you can do with your computer now" aspect. Again, some concrete decisions about what talks will be given, and what will be demoed would work wonders here, as well as having enough of the community backing it. And, finally, am I the only one who doesn't really like the 'deckfest' name? It doesn't really *mean* anything. You immediately have a rough idea about what's going to happen at an installfest. deckfest always has a paragraph appended explaining what it actually is. I'm not sure if I have a better suggestion, though. If the -fest suffix is mandatory, then maybe just a Linuxfest? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
