InstallFest -- Status 2002-06-10

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Author: William Lindley
Date:  
Subject: InstallFest -- Status 2002-06-10
Status as of Monday morning. Added volunteers, and tentative presentation
times.


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What: InstallFest
When: 22 June 2002, 10am-4pm
Where: Turquoise Room, Scottsdale Community College, Hwy. 101 & Pima Rd.

See also: http://www.plugpresents.com/installfest

Here's who has the pumpkins... i.e., who is handling what.

Please reply off-list if you can fill any of these slots, see anything
overlooked, or with any additions or corrections.

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SCC Contact: G.D.Thurman <>
Publicity: Jim Wejroch <>
Press Release: Dennis Kibbe <>
Flyer: Susan Henson <>

Newbie classes (hope to have schedule before Fest): ______
Vendors: Alan Dayley <>

Installations:  (Prefer to have several names for each)
  RedHat:    ______
          Robert Ambrose <>
          Alan <>
          Robert A.Klahn <>
  Mandrake:    ______
          KevinO <>
          Virgil Silhanek <>
          W.Lindley <>
  Debian:    ______
          ______
          Robert A.Klahn <>
  Slackware:    ______
          Bruce Pettycrew <>
  BSD:        Justin Zeigler and Harry McGregor of www.OSEF.org (Tucson)
          J.Francois<>
  General Assistance:
          _____
          _____
          Matt Alexander <>
          Kirby <>
          Susan Henson <>

    
Presentations:  per Thurman, we will have a room with video projector.
  - TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
    10:30 am Linux/Open Source
        Jim Wejroch <>
      11:30 am Linux Terminal Server Project
          Matt Alexander <>
      12:30 pm Open Source On the Educational Desktop
          Harry McGregor of www.OSEF.org
      1:30 pm KDE
          ______ or Jim Wejroch <>
      2:30 pm Linux/Open Source
          der.hans <>
    (Should have several folks to speak briefly).
  - Videotape, Stallman visit October 2001:  Thurman
  - Other presentations:  ________:  ______
    (Your chance to speak!)


Food: per Thurman:
- SCC to provide food stand. Outside food, non-alc. drink OK.
- Food and drink are allowed in the Turquoise Room and Foyer area.

Giveaways:
  - (see also Vendor above)
  - PLUG handouts:  ______
      ______
  - PLUG business cards: Jim <>
  - Tux the Penguin, case badges, to all successful installs.
    Dennis Kibbe <>
  - SCC is going to give away the following books:
    + Just For Fun (The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary)
    + The Cathedral and Bazaar (Musings on the Linux and Open Source
    by an Accidental Revolutionary)
    + Open Sources (Voices from the Open Source Revolution)
    + Free as in Freedom (Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software)
  - Vendors:
    + Terra Soft: 10 packaged copies of Yellow Dog Linux 2.1. (Power PC)
    + TurboLinux: books & "goodies"


CDROMs to give away
  - Mandrake 8.2   ______
  - Debian         ______
  - RedHat 7.3     10 copies, Matt Alexander <>
  - ___________    ______    <- Your favorite distro here!
  - Open Office, Mozilla 1.0.  10 copies, Matt Alexander <>


Working computers for people to see.
  - Apple G3, der.hans    (closed box)
  - ____________     <- KDE?
  - ____________     <- Gnome?
  - ____________     <-- need at least one with CD burner
  + Firewall Distro demos
    - __________
    - __________
    - FreeSCO: <> has one ready to go


----- MATERIALS LIST -----

Start of a list. Let me know which you can bring. Reply to me (not to
all) with any additions / changes. Then we'll cc the pluglist. Ideally
we'd have several folks with a "reserve" of items in their cars' trunks...

GENERAL.
- Markers, paper, tape -- for signs
- Pens, pencils
- Preprinted signs ("Install fest This Way" [left, right, up])
- Easel, whiteboard, drymarkers
- PLUG banner. Jim Wejroch <>

HANDOUTS.
- PLUG business cards Jim Wejroch <>
- Flyers. Susan Henson, in progress. Current: Revision 6, 2002-06-08
- Other. We still need various handouts: Suggestions?
- Vendor materials
- Supply of blank CDRs, and access to ISOs of several distributions
on an operable computer with a CD burner.
- Hardware Inventory / Waiver forms -- see http://www.vlug.org/ifht/

COMPUTERS. (for people to gawk at and play with)
- Operable PC running Red Hat.
- Operable PC running Mandrake.
- Operable PC running Debian.
- Operable Apple, IPAQ, PC running other distros, etc etc.

PARTS.
- power strips / surge protectors  (several folks pls bring)
- network switch/hub & cables (Hans?)
- extra network switch/hub & cables for Firewall demos
- spare keyboards
    William Lindley <>
- spare mice
    William Lindley <>
- various converter plugs, screws, etc.
- screwdrivers
- network cards (PCI, ISA)
- extra floppy drives, cdrom drives, video and sound cards
  (for folks with recalcitrant hardware?)
- IDE, floppy cables


FOOD.
- _______
- _______
- _______ <--- sponsors?

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