Meeting updates...

[Colin McGregor]

"James Knott" <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:51 PM

> Colin McGregor wrote:
> > This is in follow-up to the Executive Working meeting last evening...
> >
> > One of the points that was emphasised at the meeting was (for legal
reasons
> > (i.e. avoid conflict with the Toledo Linux User Group)) that we away
from
> > TLUG to GTALUG (i.e. Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group).
> >
> > Spoke to the folks at Centennial College about doing an install fest at
> > Centennial and they are VERY interested. The idea being that we would
> > announce a place/time where you could bring your PC and get help with
doing
> > a Linux install. I was asked if we wanted to do this in say September
since
> > things are fairly quiet right now, and my answer was that I would like
to do
> > an install fest at a quiet time so we could see where problems crop up,
this
> > way come September we would be much better prepared to deal with issues
with
> > a large group. In other words I was suggesting two Centennial install
fests.
> > I was told they are reworking their network and so will not be able to
this
> > before about the end of May. Still, Centennial is on board for GTALUG
> > install fests starting in June.
>
> Are you planning on going to the internet for the install?  If not, how
> much network do you need?

There is a joke about how one of the fastest data transfer systems is a
person on a bicycle with a knapsack filled with tapes, the only catch being
that latency is a @#$%. My take on this would be to have:

- A server with a CD-ROM burner and ISO images of several popular
distributions (i.e. Fedora, Debbie, Suse, Slackware, etc., etc.). This way
we can do a local network install and/or burn CD(s) on the spot as required.

- Just a stack of CD-ROMs with copies of several different distributions
(and multiple copies of some of the most popular distributions).

Regardless, we do NOT want several folks sucking down the full distributions
over the net. We do want the option of people being able to apply the latest
security patch(es) to their box(es) via the net... Likewise we want the
option of being able to look up information about how to deal with bizarre
hardware over the net.

Colin.

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