A couple of guys from Tauranga want to introduce the local community to a project call instant infrastructure <http://ii.code.org.nz>. We are presenting at SFD in Tauranga Sunday! We want to enable non-technical people to install operating systems and applications (in possibly complex and interdependent configurations) to computers that have blank or format-able hard drives. The computers may be configured to be centrally managed over the network for ongoing support and maintenance. This could happen from a smart phone or usb stick... On the technical side I've be trying to get Virtualbox booting the infrastructure from Ubuntu and after that it won't be long until it's selfhosted starting from Windows, OSX, or Linux. This would allow people from many different experience levels and backgrounds to participate in sharing solutions. This process starts by using most computers ability to run programs from the network <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment>, even if they don't have anything on the hard drive. It's possible to target raw hardware in addition to cross platform virtualization <http://www.virtualbox.org/> which we can script/automate via ruby <http://mitchellh.github.com/virtualbox/>. We can automatically provision<http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/chef_solo.html> them via chef-solo <http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Solo> with vagrant<http://vagrantup.com/> . We want to test the hardware and virtually deployed systems using test cookbooks <http://junglist.gen.nz/blog/2011/08/13/minitest-0-0-5-released/>. This is the ticket <https://github.com/passionengine/ii/issues/2> I'm working on today, take a peek if your interested. We'd love to present at Software Freedom Day in Hamilton and gain feedback from the community on how to incorporate more people into the process and make it a tool everyone can use. I tried to add us to the presenters<http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/pages/view/252/presenters>page, but I was only able to add a comment. I see three time-slots remaining, could we have one? Cheers, -chris +1 806 543-2100 (voip line at my office) +64 (0)22 077 5899 (cell, that sometimes works at the office) http://mcclimans.net http://hippiehacker.org