der.hans wrote:

> moin, moin,
> 
> We need something like http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/InstallFest/ rather than
> the mongo URLs that Post Nuke provides.
 >
> Maybe we can just setup a tinyURL type of service for ourselves, or do a
> little mod_rewrite work, or use whatever www.PHP.net uses, or ...
> 
> I'd like for /InstallFest/ to stay /InstallFest/, though.

Agreed.  What happened to plugpresents.com?  Do we still have that 
domain and can we still use it?

> I'd like for us to agree on one desktop to use for all installs. I'm sure
> we'll never get that agreement, but I'd like it if we could :). I think it
> should be between KDE and GNOME. Maybe we could agree to fall back to flux
> or whatever it is that Derek uses for underpowered machines.

Why?  Free Software is about choice, why should we remove it?  Granted, 
a newbie is not going to know what to choose.  So, the PLUGger that is 
helping the install will choose for them based on the PLUGger's 
preference.  I would suggest that the preferred desktop of the distro 
that is installed should be the desktop chosen.  Installing Red Hat, use 
GNOME.  Installing SuSE, use KDE.  I prefer KDE on Red Hat but I'm just 
wierd.  If I help install Red Hat for someone, I will leave it on GNOME 
because they probably will get better support from the Red Hat community 
that way.

To phrase my question another way:  What benefit do we, the InstallFest 
operators, get by installing only one desktop?  I don't see one, myself.

> The web site needs to have easy to find and easy to follow directions for
> what to bring. The press release can't cover that well enough, so we doubly
> need to rely on having expanded info on the web site.
> 
> We need to remind them not to forget printers or any other external devices
> they might need to work with the new install.

Yes.  It will need that.  Content for this can be lifted from other 
sites and howtos that are readily available.

> We need to tell them that we need space to install GNU/Linux. We need to
> have them defrag m$ filesystems if they want a dual-boot system. We need to
> remind them to make backups before bringing the box in.

VERY IMPORTANT!  A defrag can turn a less than 1 hour install into a 3+ 
hour adventure in boredom.

> We need to cover what to do about ntfs. We need to figure out what to do
> about ntfs...

I don't know about this one.  I think mandrake and suse have tools to 
handle this but I have not used them.  :^\

> We need to decide if we want to install Free Software on non-free systems.
> If we're gonna do that we need to talk to groups for those non-free systems
> and see if they'll help us out.

Good thought.  Should be on the list of voluteers and things to do that 
George is maintaining.  And we need a voluteer to do it.

Alan