A MythTV building workshop?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:17 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:36:29AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>> FreeGeek is a group that collects up old corporate computers
>> refurbishes them and redeploys them. Last evening I was out at the
>> FreeGeek warehouse space near Keele St. and Dundas St. W. doing an
>> introductory talk on Ubuntu (basically a re-hash of some of my other
>> talks). At the end of the talk I wondered aloud what to do in future
>> and I asked if there was any interest in doing a MythTV building
>> workshop... A few of the folks at FreeGeek expressed an interest, and
>> I gather that getting the classroom space at FreeGeek is not an issue
>> on Thursday evenings...
>>
>> So, would there be an interest in doing a MythTV building workshop
>> some Thursday evening at some point in the next few weeks among GTALug
>> folks and/or the GTA MythTV list folks? If so, what Thursday? Things I
>> could easily bring to the event:
>>
>> - MythTV compatible analog TV card(s)
>> - Rabbit ear TV antenna (ie: a TV signal source good enough for demo purposes)
>> - Mythbuntu 10.4 install disk(s)
>>
>> Things that are available at FreeGeek that we could almost certainly borrow:
>>
>> - Internet connection
>> - Video projector
>> - old PC(s) (P4 2.4 MHz)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'd interested.  How's the parking?

Very good. There is a (free) gravel covered parking lot beside the
FreeGeek warehouse. Because of the way the entrance is set-up, you
could have trouble getting in with an 18 wheel truck, but cars /
mini-vans / pick-up trucks shouldn't have any problems...

Colin.

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