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

[Peter Belew]

Ok, that's good - MAC-based.

The 2 installfests Alicia Bell and Adam Thompson (and others)
(http://ucsc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6704738) put on last year
under the auspices of cgirs.ucsc.edu were in the Nameste lounge and a
lounge at Stevenson, and I think they set up servers or routers
connected to the wired net. They concentrated on Ubuntu.

The earlier SlugLUG installfests were always on Saturday (maybe Sunday
too), and attendees were about half to 2/3 UCSC people, with the
remainder being people from SMAUG or Cabrillo or the Santa Cruz ham
radio club, or a combination of those groups and other UCSC groups.
There didn't seem to be a lot of trouble getting use of Jack's Lounge
on weekends in the daytime, and Nacho's (Ignacio Solis') lab was in
the building, so he knew who to talk to to get ethernet ports opened
up, etc. People were using every known Linux distro, it seemed. These
were generally all-day affairs.

Peter

On 3/20/07, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> It is MAC-based.
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:43:15 -0700
> "Peter Belew" <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok ...
> >
> > On 3/20/07, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > Merrill lounge does indeed have ethernet jacks as well as cruznet
> > > access.  I am uncertain about whether the ethernet jacks are through
> > > resnet (thus requiring auth) or if they are simply
> > > straight-internet. Even if it is resnet we can use a wifi router to
> > > have one person auth and then the router will hold the auth and all
> > > further computers connected will not require auth.
> >
> >  Yeah I figured that *should* work. A bunch of hubs and switches will
> > be necessary so people can install via ethernet. A bit of testing
> > beforehand is a good idea though, depending on how the authorization
> > works - does it depend on a MAC address (like of the port connected to
> > the wall jack), or on the end-point IP(s) - which would be of the
> > individual systems being installed to?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > >
> > > --Rohan
> > >
> > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:42:36 -0700
> > > "Peter Belew" <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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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