[Lancaster] Software Freedom Day

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is this something we should be very interested in? :-)
> 
> http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
> 
> Martyn

Yes! I would like to help if possible.

 From what you were saying last PM, I assume that this is likely to be 
at the Uni. and could take the form of an 'install fest'. I could be 
available from mid morning to late afternoon.

What should the programme be? What distros/software are to be offered 
and how? I guess that in most cases CD/DVD installation will be used, so 
  we would need to provide enough CDs/DVDs to cover, bearing in mind 
that on low/medium spec PCs, installation takes some time. Could also do 
network installs. Have done this several times using SuSE -- just need a 
set of boot floppies to start things off.

Maybe we should also reckon on providing things like 'Open Office' and 
other stuff for people who are not yet brave enough to dump MS Windows. 
We could help these guys on their way by handing out copies of 'Knoppix'.

One more point: Are we going to get involved with dual booting?

The usual default options can introduce a lot of problems when the 
inevitable re-installation of MS Windows is done. Also, I understand 
that there can be problems with NTFS partitions (ie Windows XP).

Ken Hough

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