Am 26. Jun, 2002 schwätzte Robert Bushman so: > The InstallFest Post Mortem this evening was a > lot of fun, and can be briefly summarized as, > "InstallFest was great! Let's do it again!" > > With that in mind the list of volunteers for the > West Side InstallFest has begun: Woohoo! > Flyer: Michelle Lowman > Press: Lee Einer > Site: Steve (foodog) (pending GCC approval) > Web Site: Jim Farli > Chairman: Bob Bushman > > Sponsor Wrangler: Available > Installers: Anyone here ever installed Linux before? > > Other: How would you like to help? > > It was mentioned that der.hans provided quite > a bit of invaluable wiring and power gear, that My gear can be made available again. > Alan has an appreciable network of sponsor > contacts (and Jim may be able to bend the ear > of someone at O'Reilly), and that William > Lindley might have some organizational advice. > Of course, your help is appreciated in any > area you can support. > > As a tentative date, I'd like to suggest Saturday, > September 28. Jim suggested this would give > students time to settle into the fall semester > and start looking for weekend distractions. > > On potential improvements, some things that caught > my attention at the post mortem were: > > 1. More stations to allow more simultaneous installs. > 2. Preliminary survey to identify users who want > specialized installs. > 3. Trans/Post-liminary survey to record the gear > being used, OS being replaced, FAQs, etc. > 4. Pre-arrange for 802.11 stuff. Get a press release ready before the end of July and hit it again at the end of Aug. Set aside a place for demos and mark it clearly. Do the presentations. We got good traffic out of those. Have promo materials for the meetings and a workstation where people can sign up for the mailing list ( they'll still need to reply when they check their email ). Homemade cheesecake goes over really well :). ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ # C'est la Net - der.hans