moin, moin,

the InstallFest was very well organized. Kudos to George and those who
helped him set it up.

I think the host table at the front really went well. It definitely lended
to our credibility and worked as a reassuring welcome for the installees.

Speaking of the installees, we had 17, according to the paperwork I have. We
only had problems on a couple of boxen. Can't do much if the hardware
doesn't work, but I think those installees saw that we really went out of
our way to try to help them, though.

Normally I don't comment on individual installees, but this time we had
someone in from Spain. Pretty long trip to install GNU/Linux. He's gonna
stick around for a year and be an exchange student, though, so I guess it
works out :). He plans on making ASULUG's InstallFest and is really looking
forward to their CrackFest.

Thanks to all those who helped prepare for the InstallFest and thanks to
those who were there yesterday to help with installs and to do
presentations/demos.

I want to thank Betty for bringing in snacks for everybody and for bringing
hardware to donate to other PLUGgers.

Thanks to David and Steve for shipping in from DeLUG to help. They should
have their first meeting in Nov. I'd like to propose that the PLUG west side
meeting be moved to their first meeting to help them kick off their LUG.
DeLUG is intersted in working with the west side group to improve Free
Software awareness in the west valley.

Thanks to Austin and Monika from ASULUG for stopping in to help. They've got
an InstallFest coming up in 2 weeks. http://ASULUG.asu.edu/

Thanks to eldric and UAT for hosting the event.

Thanks also to Austin for all the work he's been doing on making the
PLUG-branded Knoppix CDs.

We're getting good at this and we're making a difference for some people.

ciao,

der.hans
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