Daniel Lawson wrote:
As Bruce has unfortunately precipitated this discussion away from wlug-committee and onto the main mailing list, I may as well clarify this issue for anyone who is interested.
My apologies; however I'm no longer on the committee and so can't post to the committee list. But if we're going to do an installfest, we do want the whole lug getting involved.
We initially thought April would be a good time, but we basically have run out of time to organise it. Well, as Bruce points out below, if we just do it, we will organise it in time, *however* at this stage we have no idea of who is actually interested. We don't particularly want to put effort into organising something in a rush now, which could work a lot a better if we delay it temporarily.
I'll accept a delay. I know several people who would be keen already (and now I'll have to tell them it's -not- going to be on the 24th); I'm sure we can find enough people to make it worthwhile.
Do you need help installing linux? Want to give it a try, but not comfortable with the technical side of it?
Do you have linux installed, but have problems with some bits of hardware not working? EG, digital camera, usb key stick, cdwriter, dvd drive, so on.
That sounds like copy for a poster :)
Do you know other people in this situation who might want to come along.
We'll probably advocate installing Fedora Core 1, as its a recent distribution and looks fairly easy to use. If you've already got linux installed, we'll try and help you fix your chosen distribution, or we can help you upgrade to FC1 if you prefer. Fedora Core 2 comes out in mid-may, so we might use this as an install candidate instead.
I can see a distro war brewing over this; I've started leaning towards Debian, and a lot of people are recommending Mandrake as a good first-time distro..