InstallFest

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Contents 1 Howto Improve 1.1 What you liked 1.2 What you thought needed some work 1.3 Notes for next time 1.4 Info about the event 1.5 Installers (feel free to sign up below): 1.6 Localizers 1.7 In collaboration with: 1.8 Preperation: 1.9 Special Thanks:

Howto Improve

What you liked

• Plenty of support
• Great turn-out

What you thought needed some work

• Not enough space!!
• Maybe some nametags for the installers

Notes for next time

• Find more lab space
• Have reference sheets on hand/hard copies of install guides

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The Oregon State University Linux User Group will be hosting an install fest, offering free help installing GNU/Linux on desktops and Laptops.

Info about the event

• Who: Anybody interested in installing Linux.
• What: OSLUG InstallFest
• Where: Dearborn Hall room #206.
• When: Friday, October 15th. 4-6pm
• Why: If you need help or would like to help.

Please BACKUP ALL DATA on your drives before bringing them to the install fest; in the rare event of data corruption. Thank you. Note: Please see the OSLUG Disclaimer

Installers (feel free to sign up below):

• BrandonPhilips (Debian)
• AlexPolvi (Gentoo, Debian, ppc ,x86, amd64)
• MichaelMarineau (Gentoo, Debian)
• JoseCedeno (Fedora, Debian)
• MichaelClay (Gentoo)
• EricBetts (Knoppix)
• BethGordon (Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, Macaroni and Cheese?)
• JasonSiefken (Gentoo, Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE)
• DavidKnight (Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware) -- 5 to 6 p.m.
• RoganCreswick (Debian and others, XFree hacking)
• DonnieBerkholz (Gentoo, Fedora, X) -- about 4:30-6 p.m.

Localizers

(People who only want to help get 'installees' productive on Linux)

• MichaelClay (Gentoo)

In collaboration with:

• OSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• OSU Open Source Lab

Preperation:

• DONE Patch cables? (there will be plenty of those in the room)
• DONE Need to clean up room (clean up time?)
• 3pm Tomorrow setup a couple of computers in the room for browsing/researching/demos (A good use for the CommunityFair demo boxes)
• Recent burns of popular distros
• 3pm Tomorrow Copies of tools for ResizingNTFS
• People
• Advertising
  • Large Poster
  • [Small (4 up) http://lug.oregonstate.edu/files/installfest-small.pdf]
• Swag
• O'Reilly Book Coupons
• Contact 100/200 Level CS Profs
• Contact the EECS person for eecs-pre and eecs-pro mailing lists
• Strange hardware that is trouble installing Linux on (AlexPolvi is bringing in a SGI box)
• Macaroni and cheese ingredients

Special Thanks:

Thanks to the magical Jalal Haddad of the CS dept we have a space and conductivity. Thank you for the help/time/space/resources and overall support. Jalal, you rock!