We've just finished tidying up after the installfest.
I think we had about 30 registrants, but I'm sure more than that came
throughout the day. I'm pretty sure we got linux onto a few peoples
computers, and we solved a good number of problems. Let's hope we didn't
create more than we solved :).
Out of interest, I checked the usage graphs for the Internet link, and
we peaked at 170 KB/sec at one point during the day. Next time I'd like
to enforce use of a proxy server, as I'm sure most of that traffic was
duplicated a few times.
While I remember, I'd like to fire off a few points:
* I think it was a great success. We had many new people turn up - some
from as far away as Waihi at least - and it was a really great atmosphere.
* Thanks to everyone who helped. The entire committee, Bruce, Alastair,
Matthias, Lindsay, Alan, Shay, Shane and all the rest who helped people
out during the day. Big ups :).
* Thanks to Lindsay / University of Waikato ITS for supplying the Cisco
Catalyst 5000 and 2926 switches.
* Thanks to Phil / Open 2 View for providing the server. Thanks Carich
for going into receivership and allowing Open 2 View to buy lots of your
old computing equipment .
* Thanks to Crawshaw School for the use of the Hall and facilities, and
the use of the Internet connection. Thanks also to Satlan, Crawshaw's
Internet provider.
* Thanks to DSE for giving us some Mandrake 9.2 cds. We still have a
handful of these left, so if anyone would like a copy of this, yell out,
you can pick it up at the next meeting.
* Thanks to IT Partners for providing "CD Duplication Facilities".
And thanks again to everyone who turned up. We've learned a bit about
running these, so hopefully next time things will run a bit smoother -
we should have enough tables at least!
Daniel
