It was certainly a great atmosphere, and for the first time round, it went really well I thought... Bruce took some photos and they are posted here... http://www.wired.net.nz/gallery/installfest2004 Also I'm waiting Phil Murray's photos that he took with that cool camera from www.open2view.com I think we all endured some highlights (and lowlights). 7 years ago, it would have been beyond my wildest dreams to be able to borrow two Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switches connected together by Gigabit over fibre with more than enough 10/100 ports to go around from my employer with no strings attached apart from my employers concern of the box falling on someone's toe and that he wants me to clear the configuration before and after and also clear the flash and re-image it on return. An overkill perhaps, but it was a great novelty. So in seven years time, we may have a Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch in the middle :) As for one of the 2926's, well I'm looking forward to hearing Fraser Parkinson's (my CAM from Cisco) reaction when he sees a picture of the Cisco 2926 with the 3Com Baseline switches on top working, while that is just sitting there unplugged :). We also encountered quite a few rouge DHCP servers along the way, and PCI-NIC being turned into a mini-PIC NIC :) It would be good to have more of this and also try different venues. -----Original Message----- From: A. Pagaltzis [mailto:pagaltzis(a)gmx.de] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2004 2:18 p.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Installfest roundup * zcat <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> [2004-05-08 08:47]:
I think that went pretty well for our first installfest; I've already had a thank-you email from someone for getting their winmodem working :)
Did anyone take photos? Is anyone going to do a short writeup? How the idea came up, turn of events during organization, how the day went, the atmosphere, difficulties encoutered, noteworthy moments, things learned -- stuff like that. We have two of those, for the two fests the LUG has done (I wasn't on boat for the 2001 one): http://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/linux/nachlese_2001.html http://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/linux/bericht_2003.html Of course they're in German only, I'm afraid. :) -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough." _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug