[Lancaster] Install Fest (was: Software Freedom Day)

[Kristof Van Laerhoven]

Hi Ken, all,

Good point(s):

- if everyone brings the installation discs of distros they have 
experience with (anyone covering Gentoo?) we should be fine,
- we have the middle section of the building reserved for the entire 
afternoon, from 12 onwards, but the plan is to start around 1pm.
- I'll make sure to supply you with a decent map soon, but you can 
already explore it by using google maps and searching for "LA1 4WA", and 
as Martyn said, you cannot miss it..
- there is plenty of parking space in front of the building and we'll 
make sure that you get a visitor's ticket to place in your car.

cheers,
    Kristof.

Ken Hough wrote:

> Kristof,
>
> I intend bringing along my laptop (IBM Thinkpad, 800MHz PIII), running 
> SuSE Linux v9.1.
>
> I could also bring an Athlon XP1600+/512MB based PC which can run as a 
> headless server holding a few Linux distros. Given sets of boot 
> floppies (and ethernet cards if needed), we could install via 
> ethernet/FTP from this PC, thus avoiding (or reducing) the need for 
> lots of installation CDs/DVDs.
>
> If this is any use, have you any suggestions as to distros to load, or 
> for other possibilities? I currently have installation DVDs for SuSE 
> v9.1/v9.2, Fedora Core 4, Mandriva 10.1 and UBUNTU v5.04. Also have 
> Debian Sarg, but don't intend to include this for beginners.
>
> I have Open Office and GIMP for MS Windows for those who aren't quite 
> ready to go for Linux.
>
> What times do you anticipate starting/finishing the event? I need to 
> plan a few things to make sure that I can be there.
>
> BTW, I'm not familier with Lancaster Uni'. Can you give me directions 
> and if possible car parking info'.
>
> Ken Hough
>
> Kristof Van Laerhoven wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's official now: we're organising an install fest! <yippie>
>>
>> The venue is booked for the afternoon of Saturday, 10th of September 
>> (which is software freedom day: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/),
>>
>> at Infolab21, Lancaster University (http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/)
>>
>>
>> The few people that are involved so far cannot do this on their own 
>> though, so any help would be more than welcome:
>>
>> - does anyone have suggestions? Ken has already mailed several great 
>> ones, additional ideas are well appreciated
>>
>> - anyone of you that has installed a Linux distro has the expertise 
>> to help out at the event itself (which probably is 99.99% of this 
>> list): please let us know if you can make it, the more the merrier!
>>
>> - and finally publicity: we will soon (this week) produce posters and 
>> hang them around strategic places in Lancaster, including the campus 
>> here; if you own a window, shop, or pub (hmm..) in town where we 
>> could hang one, send us an email
>>
>> - if there are any other contributions that you can make: again 
>> please don't hesitate to mail us
>>
>>
>> best,
>>     kristof.
>

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