IF02.2 Status

[Robert Bushman]

Apologies for the long delay, have been (and continue to
be) up to my eyeballs in the day job.  This is a little
rough, please correct me on errors and ommissions.


Install Fest II - 09-05 Status
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Tasks:

- Preliminary Survey - User Needs?
- Feedback Survey - How to Improve?


News:


Lots of great work by everyone!  Thank you to everyone
for putting in so much effort on this!


Important Note:
All flyers have to be stamped by GCC.  I am getting
more details on this and hope to have details and
stamped copies as necessary available.


Date and time:
28 September - 10:00 - 16:00


Location:
Glendale Community College Student Union
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/index/campus.cfm


Jim Farli has provided the liability disclaimer.


Fred Wright, a frequent attendee at the West Side meetings,
has offered to post flyers at the following:
  EMCC
  Sun Cities
  Pebble Creek


Steve has offered to continue his tireless efforts by
posting flyers at GCC.


Michelle Lowman has been working hard and has finished the flyer:
http://clarityeditorial.com/if2flyer2.pdf

And has offered to handle flyering at Phoenix College and DeVry.


Kyle Faber and Lee Einer will be tag-teaming PVCC.


Lee is also working hard on the press releases.


David Uhlman of 50km Inc. has continued his fine graphic art
contributions with an offer of an alternative header graphic:

format. http://www.50km.com/duhlman/plug/header.png


Charlie Bullen would like to help contacting area schools and
has found a link to contact information for many of them:
http://www.ade.state.az.us/sch_cntct_dir.asp


Suggestions:

+ More Install Stations
+ Press Releases on 31 July and 31 Aug
+ School (K-12) Oriented Press Release(s)
+ School (College) Oriented Press Release(s)
+ School (K-12,College) Direct Invitations
+ Mailing List Registration - Current Lists
+ May We Contact You? - Attendees
+ May We Contact You? - Install Customers
+ Demo Zone With Demonstrators
+ Presentations
+ PLUG Promotional Materials (PLUG Flyer)
+ Homemade Cheesecake
+ 802.11


Sponsor Status:
- UnityWave - Will be there!
- AZOTO - Will be there!
- RedHat - Will be there!
- Sun - Will be there!
- OSEF - Will be there!
- Debian - Will be there!
- O'Reilly - Goodies have arrived!
- Sam's Publishing - Jim has them in process!
- GNUe - Will be there!


Volunteers:

Flyer:          Michelle Lowman
Press:          Lee Einer
Site:           Steve (foodog) (pending GCC approval)
Web Site:       Jim Farli
School Contact: Anthony (tickticker) & Tom Emerson
Chef:           Raymond Cantwell
Chairman:       Bob Bushman
802.11:         Justin Zeigler & Harry McGregor
DVR:            Justin Zeigler & Harry McGregor
Surveys:        Derek Neighbors


Installers:
  Technomage (pending location): RedHat, Mandrake
  Justin Zeigler: Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, SuSE
  Harry McGregor: Debian
  Derek Neighbors: Debian


Demonstrators:
  Jonathon Claxton: Video Games
  Justin Zeigler: Educational Software
  Harry McGregor: Educational Software


Presenters:
  Justin Zeigler: Educational Software
  Harry McGregor: Educational Software
  Bill Lindley: BSA
  Michelle Lowman: Free Software Licenses
  Derek Neighbors: GNUe Enterprise Software
  Bob Bushman: Information Rights


Open Volunteer Slots (verified):

- Sponsor Wrangler
  Contact companies regarding sponsorship.
  Alan has been mentioned as a good resource
  for contacts.

- Installers
  Be on hand day of show to do installs.
  Typically oriented by distro, and would
  be nice to have some specialists (multi-boot,
  firewall, etc).

- Demonstrators
  Be on hand day of show to demo Linux's
  mind-bending power. Please make sure that
  a computer with the proper gear will be on
  hand (bring your own may be the best call).

- Contact Registration
  Arrange electronic and paper registration
  for mailing lists and "May We Contact You"s.

- Demo Zone
  Arrange demonstrators and coordinate efforts
  to provide appropriate systems.

- Presentations
  Arrange presenters and coordinate access to
  a projector and OpenOffice presentation
  software.

- Legal
  Make sure our collective butt is covered.
  In particular consider the data loss indemnification
  from last time, and the cost/benefit/permission of
  selling T-shirts, StarOffice, and/or cheesecake.


Open Volunteer Slots (proposed):

- T-Shirts
  Arrange printing of PLUG T-Shirts for sale
  and/or doorprizes at Install Fest. Probably
  requires harvesting of donations and/or
  investment in return on sales.