Meeting updates...

[James Knott]

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

>>>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.


So, why is the reworking of Centennial's network a concern???
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