On 4/6/06, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:13 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > > > 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 this is exactly what I was planning. :-) Combining the two is going to be difficult, but I think that if we put enough time and effort into it it'll take off. I'd like to hold it within the next 3 months, around the weekend of 10-11/6. I think that'll give us ample time to plan and source the people/talks we need. A decent venue will have to be picked too. Does anyone have any venue suggestions? Preferably one near public transport. > > 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? I threw the name out there to see what people thought of it. I personally don't like it that much either. Any name suggestions are heartily welcomed - right now Linuxfest has it. :-) If people would like to volunteer to help out at the event, either through giving talks or helping people install Linux on their machines, could they please send a reply to activities? Cheers, Lindsay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
