[SlugLUG] new sluglug site goes live and more on installfests

[Rohan Sheth]

sluglug.ucsc.edu now html refresh's users to the new site.

Anyone can register and those who shoot me an email after registering
will be included into the "lug users" access group which allows them to
modify all content of the site.  This way even when I'm behind someone
else can update things.

As per the installfest that has been up and down for a while.  I would
absolutely love to have an installfest.  However, out of the
installfests that I have personally been to...users usually swap back
to their other os (usually windows) very quickly because they have
little idea of how to use their newfound toy and become irritated
rapidly (*points at a few people he knows who live in his very own
apartment*).  I would rather have a scheduled teach-session and then a
specific installfest.  

So like one week we choose a day and have a "teach ubuntu" day.  Where
a few of us (or more!) show the basics of using ubuntu and the little
quirks people would need to know along the way...and then a following
day we allow people to bring in machines and we'll strap them up with
ubuntu.  This way the customer stays 'happy' because they know what
just transpired besides the fact that someone just pushed a whole bunch
of buttons on their keyboard and now there is this brown colored thing
called gnome taking over their precious computer.

So as to these instructional meetings which precede the actual
installfest for a particular distro we should probably cover the
following:

1) Their new web-browsing friend: firefox
2) Installing mp3-playback and playing mp3s (people gotta have their
music.)
3) playing video/dvds
4) Getting wireless to work (tricky but possible!)
5) how to keep their system up to date
6) common problems (such as sound, etc.)

After a quick tutorial session like this for interested people they
would benefit more from the installfest simply because they would
understand more about the new penguin-powered operating system they
have on their machine.

What do you all think?

--Rohan