Hi, I wanted to keep everybody up to date on how progress with planning for the InstallFest is going. Keep an eye on www.wlug.org.nz/InstallFest for the latest details. We have confirmed the date (8 May) and venue Crawshaw School. The InstallFest will run from 11am to 4pm. Advertising is well underway but the most effective form of advertising we can get is word of mouth, tell all your friends and then bring them along on the day. Please register first so we know how many people are likely to be there! While we are calling the event an InstallFest we really want it to be much more than that, we want it to be a social event for the lug, even if you already have linux installed and do not plan to install anything on the day feel free to come along. You don't even need to be a paid member of WLUG to participate. What happens on the day will really be determined by who is there, obviously our first priority will be installing Linux for new people who attend, but if time allows and there are interested people there it is feasible that we could also have some other activities based around various applications etc. I've got no idea what form that sort of thing would take, if we would have time, or if people are interested in that sort of thing. The InstallFest is not just for new linux users (although that is the primary focus). One idea that I think would be quite cool if time permitted would be to have a bug finding / squashing or documentation party where pick a peice of software and as a group work towards making this better. The benefit of this is that there are lots of different tasks that can be done, if you're not a programmer you can test and look for bugs, if you are a programmer you can hack around in the code etc. Anyway, I'm starting to ramble and I'm really just throwing out ideas rather than describing existing plans - the point is we want everyone who is involved in the LUG to come and be at the InstallFest, given enough people we could easily have a group doing new installs while other people are doing something else. So consider this a challenge, we've never done an InstallFest before, it's new and interesting, get in and support your LUG by being involved! -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM : 021 611 544
We have confirmed the date (8 May) and venue Crawshaw School. The InstallFest will run from 11am to 4pm. Advertising is well underway but the most effective form of advertising we can get is word of mouth, tell all your friends and then bring them along on the day. Please register first so we know how many people are likely to be there!
If you're keen on coming along (for whatever reason) please sign up on the registration form: http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/installfest/registration.php This is so we know who will be there and what issues we should be prepared for. And, as mattb said, if you want to come along to just chat, or help out we're really keen on that too. So, Sign up!
* Matt Brown <matt(a)mattb.net.nz> [2004-04-22 04:27]:
if time allows and there are interested people there it is feasible that we could also have some other activities based around various applications etc. I've got no idea what form that sort of thing would take, if we would have time, or if people are interested in that sort of thing.
An obvious idea, which is what we did here, is to have a few people give talks. In our case it was in parallel with the installfest, and there were about a half dozen talks, the topics were things like the Debian project, basics of security, an overview of end user apps (incl. lesser known ones), etc. We also organized sponsoring by IBM, O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley and another German publisher, and they supplied us with donations in kind we handed out to interested folks. We had asked the sponsors beforehand, and IBM also sent a speaker to talk about Linux on big iron, which was actually pretty cool (not really any advertising at all). -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
* Philip Murray <me(a)philth.net.nz> [2004-04-22 13:58]:
How many people did you have at your InstallFest?
About 110 guests, of which roughly half brought a PC.
And part of your LUG?
'scuse me? -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
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A. Pagaltzis -
Matt Brown -
Perry Lorier -
Philip Murray