Meeting updates...

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/4/05, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?

I think it would be unwise to assume the availability of a large
"pipe" to the Internet.  While it may be possible to get access, it
cannot be assumed.

The alternative is to have an "installfest kit", consisting of:
 - A hub/switch with ~8 ports
 - 10BaseT/10Base100 cabling for, say, 8
 - A PC on which is installed copies some reasonable assortment of
distribution CDs
    thereby allowing access on the LAN via NFS/ftp/HTTP

If you have that, you don't need to go to the Internet.
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