Meeting updates...

[Franco Saliola]

Hey, the new Debian should be out in time for the installfest!

Franco

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On 5/4/05, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> "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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