• InstallFest2005

It has been proposed that Interface host an InstallFest] in the second part of Trimester 1 2005, on Saturday the 30th April.

http://installfest.org/ has some useful information.

Needful things to be coordinated

• Date, time, location
  • 30-4-2005, from 10:00 am, CO341/2
• Booking of room
• Live network port in location
  • Access to Citylink or other Debian mirrors.
• phone access to check modems
  • Alex has offered the use of the phone line in his office

Needful things

• Keyboards, mice, monitors, power cables
  • If people can bring their entire PC, it helps enormously; otherwise setting up X can be a pain
• Power strips
• Extension cables
• Linux, BSD etc. CDs
  • A CD writer, ISOs and a stack of CD-Rs can work quite well for this
    • 100 CD-Rs are to be bought. Who is bringing a CD writer?
    • Someone needs to bring originals / images.

  • I (AndrewWalbran) have install CDs for Fedora Core 3, Ubuntu 4.10 (not quite the latest version) for i386 and PowerPC, and CD1 for Debian Sarge as of last November. Will we have access to ftp.nz.debian.org or another Debian mirror?

• Installation helpers who can be at location on date at time
  • Some idea of what distros helpers can support
    • Debian
    • Mandriva
    • Suse
    • Mempis
• Ethernet cables and switches
• Server for network installations
• Disclaimer form

  • How about this one? from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/legalprotection.html

{{{ Linux InstallFest Waiver

• }}}

I, _ acknowledge that I am participating in the "Linux Install Festival" entirely at my own risk. I assume responsibility for the integrity of the data on my computer system, have backed up all important data, and I will hold the volunteer helpers blameless for any damage to my computer system, to my data, or any other damages or liability that may result through my participation in this event. I further agree to be responsible for any licensing fees, shareware registrations, or other licensing requirements that may apply to the software I will receive. The purpose of this event is to distribute software packages that are Open Source, legally distributable with no charge to the user.

Every reasonable effort will be made to ensure that my system operates correctly before and after the installation, but I recognize that, because the software installed at this event is licensed free of charge, the copyright holder(s) and volunteer helpers and/or other parties provide this material "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this software, and the accuracy of its associated documentation, is with me. Should this software or its associated documentation prove defective, I assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction.

Signature: Date: _

Advertising ideas

• Posters

  • here's a poster idea http://users.actrix.co.nz/jessicac/Got-Linux-poster.xcf

    • That looks good, but perhaps add something like 'bring your own keyboard/mouse/monitor if possible' in small text at the bottom, as noted above. (done)

    • 'possible' is misspelt on the poster.
    • * corrected (Yay for the GIMP!)
  • These could be stuck on doors to computer rooms, and possibly an A5 version placed on keyboards.
• Announcements in lectures
  • these are easy
• Leaflets handed out in the Quad or in lectures
  • possibly too much work?

• Notice in Salient

• Chalk notices on paths.