Installfest

[John McGregor]

I have been reading the various responses about the installfest and I
think that there is a real desire in the group to put the cart before
the horse. The purposes of the installfest should be:

- to promote the use of Linux
- to promote membership in GTALug
- to make the conversion from Microsoft as seamless as possible

To these ends, there are some issues that have to be considered:

-are questions from newbies really welcome on the mailing list -- if not
then maybe a newbie list should be started and populated first

- to determine what distros should be offered at the 'fest, a poll
should be conducted to find out which flavours are the most popular
amongst the existing membership. The top five should be looked at and
the distros that offer the best community support (number of forums,
specific mailing lists, ease of configuration) should be picked

- we should be selling memberships to GTALug, rather than the "high tech
guns for hire" approach that some of the members seem to prefer. It may
well turn out that some of us do garner support contracts out of the
experience, but that shouldn't be a primary goal. One of the main
detractions of Microsoft is their money grubbing reputation and we
should go out of our way not to emulate that.


My $0.02

John

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