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

[Peter Belew]

I am always busy Friday evening, and I suspect a lot of people are.
And there tend to be a lot of things going on on Friday evenings that
preempt facilities. Weekend daytime is in general best for non-UCSC
people that work. Merrill is probably good; is there wired net
connection there that would work for an open installfest?

I wonder if anyone bothered to reserve Jack's in the past - they probably
did, but I had nothing to do with that aspect. Perhaps some former
SlugLUG people can respond on that issue.

Peter

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