installation 'meeting' ?

[Ed Lawson]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:09:39 -0500
Thomas J Fogal <tfogal at pascal.unh.edu> wrote:

> Hey all, UNH has ACM meetings every once in a while that I attend for
> excessive nerdery and free pizza. At this last one it was mentioned
> that there was some interest in helping new users install Fedora...
> 
> My immediate thought is that it sounds like an 'InstallFest How-To'
> 

Seems that it has been a long time since any NHLUG group did an
install fest.  I suspect many now think it really is no big deal to
install Linux so they are no longer needed.  Not quite true for those
who assume it is sailing off the edge of the world as it might well be
from their perspective.

Maybe time to do it again
and relearn the trials and tribulations of trying to install Linux on
hardware you have never seen before?

Maybe a good opportunity to develop some skills in using Knoppix to
scope out hardware, etc.?

Maybe a good opportunity to develop skills showing off applications in
addition to installing Linux?

Maybe a good opportunity to develop a presentation on maintaining a
Linux system?

So what time frame is involved, what time of day, what facilities
available at the location as in LCD projector, broadband connection?

Ed Lawson