[SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:22:52PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: Ashley Maher organised a CodeFest and had an installfest. Unfortunately the Installfest didn't get the numbers for success at UOW but the point is he tried! Just to clarify here -- there have been three installfests at UoW that Ashley has organised. The first was incredibly successful, and got a lot of people up and running with Linux. The second installfest was effectively stillborn -- a total of one attendee (due to various unfortunate circumstances). The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently a raging success as well (I wasn't able to attend and help out at that event). - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:06 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:22:52PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: Ashley Maher organised a CodeFest and had an installfest. Unfortunately the Installfest didn't get the numbers for success at UOW but the point is he tried! Just to clarify here -- there have been three installfests at UoW that Ashley has organised. The first was incredibly successful, and got a lot of people up and running with Linux. The second installfest was effectively stillborn -- a total of one attendee (due to various unfortunate circumstances). The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently a raging success as well (I wasn't able to attend and help out at that event). - Matt I can vouch for the second and third installfests. The most recent one was well attended and had few issues that couldn't be fixed. Well done to Ashley and the others who came and helped out. As to the second installfest. Let's just say, the student who turned up had Ashley, Tuppa, Matt and myself at his disposal. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://localfoss.org - LA Update Podcast, LUG Roundup and more Skype: purserj1977 SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:06 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: The first was incredibly successful The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently a raging success as well I was at one and three. Both were great. The third one, held a few weekends ago, was the best install fest I've ever been part of. Ashley and SCLUG [1] are doing great things down there. While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think about. -- We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans -- John Howard, telling fibs on September 27th, 2002 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:06 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: The first was incredibly successful The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently a raging success as well I was at one and three. Both were great. The third one, held a few weekends ago, was the best install fest I've ever been part of. Ashley and SCLUG [1] are doing great things down there. NULL pointer dereferencing footnote. Core dumped. While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think about. The thing about the SCLUG installfests is that they are very, very targeted -- everybody gets the same installation (no hey, what random distribution do you want on your machine?) for a specific purpose (providing a lab-equivalent install). Quite interesting to examine the different purpose and hence the different outcomes that seem to result. -- We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans -- John Howard, telling fibs on September 27th, 2002 He wasn't telling fibs -- he doesn't click his heels. - Matt -- All I care about [a linux distro] is it detect my hardware (non-Debian strengths), and teach me to fish instead of just giving me a smelly old fish (most people 'xcept Debian), and I guess don't just give me a fish biology textbook (gentoo). -- Tom (in d-devel) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
On 4/5/06, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think about. November 2004, admittantly. We found that the last few Installfests we ran were attracting fewer and fewer people. We're looking at holding another Installfest this year combined with a Deckfest, so it'll give people an install and information about the apps on their desktop. Lindsay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report
Craige McWhirter wrote: While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think about. At the AGM last month, it was brought up the idea of not having installfests as such, but instead 'deckfests' [1], where people's computers are decked out with great open source software (or operating system if they need it) seeming how Linux is really becoming easy to install these days. It was Lindsay's idea, so I imagine he has more of an idea on the exact running. [1] Well, it was either Deck or Desk. Either or sounds good ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
