then you have to bear in mind that if you do ever decide to push it (I percieve the installfest as a 'push' from WLUG) then you have to accept the fact that a large amount of otherwise potential interested parties are going to be apathetic...
It could be considered a push. It could also be considered as a way of suggesting an alternative.
At any rate, the primary focus of it seems to be to install Fedora core, and get a windows clone. As I've mentioned, people won't care much about windows clones when they have a perfectly good copy of windows bundled with their PC.
The "Windows Clone" bit comes from GNOME. Or KDE. It's not specific to Fedora Core. Fedora Core is, however, a nice, recent, "stable", frequently updated, modern desktop distribution. It'll have packages for the recent versions of everything people might want to run. I wouldn't use Debian for an installfest at this point because we'll be stuck with two year old versions of a lot of software. You definitely won't get your mythical killer app in there.
Perhaps an idea would be to introduce users to this idea, and show them how to set up a basic server for things like mp3 sharing and gallery, etc? This way you can also stress the fact that linux is much more flexible than windows and will run on any old pentium 100 you can pick up, and the fact that it's more secure (as soon as you mention the word 'server' people care about security, but otherwise they don't seem to). Could show them the cool things about such servers - SSHing into it to resume a screened IRC session for example, or perhaps install CPanel or something like that...
That's what the LUG does (or tries to do) with its monthly meetings. It's a completely different sort of event to this. Maybe we could do a server installfest.
As the primary audience will be university students, probably from the compsci department who will end up flatting - you may find there is more interest for
If recent numbers are anything to go by, the above speculation is completely unfounded :). I'm willing to be pleasantly suprised however.
cool) they may be interested to go further.
Anyway, Just my 2c.
Good points. Perhaps doing a few "home server" meetings would be worthwhile.