On Tuesday 04 May 2004 02:17 am, Alexander Henry wrote:
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> cities in America hold installfests at least monthly.  We need to hold
> monthly installfests.  I'd like to pick up the torch for organizing and
> marketing these monthly installfests.

Woohoo!  Thanks, Alexander.  I have wanted to see regular installfests happen 
for some time.  Your volunteering is very much appreciated by me!

> I picked the last Saturday of the month, as it's a convenient day for most
> to attend an all-day event, it distributes well among the county's other
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> Charles Braffett about reserving the University of Advancing Technology
> area.  He said we are very welcome to come!

Great!

> Volunteers:  I think we all know what is needed for installfests on the
> technical side, and last time we had overwhelming support, so I'm not
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> coffee can somewhere, and at 13:00 take whatever is in there and have a
> food run.  Other than that, whatever happens happens!

Good plan.

> We also had great support for demos and tons of ideas about what to 'do'
> at the installfest.  Bring them on.  However, be careful what you ask for,
> you might get it!  :-)  I'm going to deliberately reply to this list to
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> demos need to happen as well!  Bring on those ideas.  I'm not saying I
> won't accept them, just be forwarned I'm going to act like I'm hard to
> please :-)

Also good plan.  The purpose of a regularly scheduled installfest is installs.  
If someone wants stuff beyond that, they can do it.  However, resources may 
get scarce some months so the concentration of effort should be on the 
installs.

> I want to stress, again, to listen to the needs of the n00bs, and find
> opportunities to provide.  Those opportunities will not be in short
> supply, and it's a lot easier to satisfy those needs next month rather
> than anticipate them all beforehand.  For now, we will just be available
> as volunteers to do one-on-one work.  But while you're working, look for
> common threads, and the next installfest we'll refine it.

Excellent attitude.  A "Free Software" kind of plan.

> Okay, let's have ourselves an installfest!

Are we going to do the first regular one this month, May 29th?

Alan
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