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

[Rohan Sheth]

I suppose we'll start with Ubuntu.  Does anyone have a spare laptop
they don't mind us overwriting with an ubuntu install...or otherwise
installing a bunch of random stuff on?  And who is able to present on
usability with ubuntu?  I imagine the most basic things to cover will
include setting up alternative repositories in order to get things like
win32codecs and libdvdcss.

I have given up on trying to get jack's lounge...advising never replies
to me and the facilities people keep telling me to ask other people.

Instead since one of my friends is the chair-person-whatever @
Merrill...I'm just going to reserve the merrill (baobob) lounge and
setup our meeting there.

I'll get a more 'final' looking date/time after spring break when I
reserve with the merill people.  Does anyone have specific preferences
towards a particular day of the week or time? I was thinking a friday
evening.

--Rohan

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:06:43 -0700
"Peter Belew" <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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