Installfest menu - last chance to review

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:38, der.hans wrote:
> Am 07. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bart Garst so:
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> > > Do we want to make these seperate sheets, so there can be no tracking=
of
> > > data to the person? Australian InstallFest :).
> >
> > I think we need as much information about what we did associated with w=
ho we
> > did it for. Remember, a waiver is to protect *us*.
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> I think we're OK if we have the waiver. Maybe put an ID number on each fo=
rm
> that could be matched up if we had to. I'm probably the only person who
> cares about the privacy, though...

Ok, 2 forms. 1 is the waiver (which we keep), the other is the menu (the
user keeps). This means I'll only be able to have 100ea printed.

...snip...

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> > I'll add checkboxes for: Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror, & Lynx.
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> 'links' rather than 'lynx', I think. Actually, I think we should install =
the
> text-based utils by default. They don't require much space and then we kn=
ow
> we have a base set of tools if we're helping someone remotely.
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Both, actually. Apt-cache found both, RedHat 8.0 disks only had lynx.
How about this just goes down as 'Text Based Internet'?

> ncftp or another client that can do re-gets for ftp.
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I think ncftp should be a must.

> > With the growing pains gaim has had recently, I recommend a tutorial be
> > written (and posted at PLUGs website) on how to install software. A lin=
k to
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> I agree with the tutorials regardless of gaim's issues. I mentioned gaim
> because it seems ( from what I've read ) to handle the most protocols.
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> We should probably point everyone at jabber as that seems to be the
> consensus on the list. Maybe we should setup the jabber clients to go to =
a
> particular server and room?

The protocols were the issue. The newest has them fixed, but it needs to
be downloaded (Do I write the tutorial for this or not?).

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> Maybe setup gaim to irc to Hawke's server.
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...snip...
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> > Programming languages: C, C++, Fortran, Perl, Python, ?, ?...
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> PHP. Let's not make them suffer Fortran :).
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> Ruby? Java?

Fortran is out, Ruby & Java are in.

I'll post the urls for both the waiver and the menu later this after
noon.
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Bart