At the meeting we did have a great discussion.
Everyone did agree to follow the Installfest HOWTO as a guide, but perhaps not religiously. This a great guide. We did all agree to abide by these guidelines.
Majority agreed to be responsible and let people know that there opt in data collection spyware is in Ubuntu - for attendees wanting Ubuntu. Opt out instructions should be available at the installfest.
Everyone agreed to use "vanilla" versions of distros (No not RH Vanilla hehe - that did come up!)
Many agreed to consider other media.
The camera will not be streaming participants and installers.
An outstanding document was presented with information about how to improve the installfests.
I am glad to have been a part of your conversations, discussions and decisions. This has been an enlightening experience every step of the way and will prove useful for other installfests, I believe.
Another thing that was mentioned is each person would take a Distro as a responsibility. I was handed CentOS by Walter.
Side note: Walter, you really have no clue who I am! (I don't expect you to). The last time I used RH was 2003, before CentOS (or Ubuntu for that matter) existed. I had a job writing CBT curricula used by ASU and other universities worldwide (Linux Essentials) in cooperation with CompTia's Linux + program. They wanted RH and vi. Although those were simply used to for documentation. The real work was done using Debian and emacs.
:)
-marcia