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

[Peter Belew]

That sounds like a really good plan!

- Peter

On 3/20/07, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> 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
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