• InstallFest200601
• Planning

Shamelessly taken from InstallFest200502

Planning for potential InstallFest for Trimester 1 2006.

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

Needful things to be coordinated

• Date, time, location
  • Saturday, 18th March, 10am-5pm in CO341.
• Booking of room

  • Booking confirmed for Saturday 18th March, 9am to 6pm (giving an hour for setting up / packing up). Booking email has been forwarded to the organisation list (DavidHall)

• 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/or Use the one in mine(JoelWPauling)

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 CDs for Ubuntu and Kubuntu 5.10, and Debian netinst (Sarge & an old Etch). Will we have access to ftp.nz.debian.org or another Debian mirror? Last InstallFest, someone (Donald?) set up a local Debian mirror.

  • I (PatrickQuinnGraham) have a mirror of various linuxes at VUW, see http://co-125-707-m.staff.vuw.ac.nz/ from on campus.

    • CentOS

    • Debian (all 14 cds of 3.1r0, plus one of 3.1r0a, plus the netinst of 3.1r0a)
    • Demudi
    • Fedora Core 4
    • Mandrake LE 2005
    • Puppy

    • Ubuntu (& Kubuntu) 5.04

    • YellowDog 4.0.1

• Installation helpers who can be at location on date at time
  • Some idea of what distros helpers can support
    • Debian
    • Gentoo (only a Stage 3 install!)
    • Ubuntu
    • Kubuntu
    • Fedora
    • Mandriva
    • Suse
    • Mepis
  • Is anyone interested in installing anything (Net/Free/OpenBSD/Solaris) other than GNU/Linux? Are we likely to have anyone wanting such operating systems installed?

    • I can do OpenBSD and bring ISOs (JoelWPauling)

• 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 recognise 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
  • These could be stuck on doors to computer rooms, and possibly an A5 version placed on keyboards.

  • I have updated the poster from last InstallFest with the new date and made a few other minor changes. This is available at http://user.interface.org.nz/~andrew/files/interface_installfest_2006_1.svg.

• Announcements in lectures

  • See the AdvertisingInLectures page

• Leaflets handed out in the Quad or in lectures (volunteers needed)
  • possibly too much work?

• Notice in Salient

  • Someone needs to organise this fairly soon; last time we didn't get a notice in in time for publication.
• Chalk notices on paths (volunteers needed) - I have Chalk(JoelWPauling)