[Cialug] MythTV installfest?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Nice.  Thanks.

Do I have any budget if free is not an option?
How many people are interested?
Does the afternoon Geek movie thing have any appeal?
I was thinking that we should train the trainers before we take it public.
But if we had it some place like a library (Ankeny library also has space I
just remembered) we may have to allow the public.

How many people are interested?

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:35 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] MythTV installfest?



Nathan, since you're the instigator on this, can we put you in charge of 
researching some locations?

Might be a good thing to promote to the general public - a free PVR 
solution might be of interest to a lot of people.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I wonder if a public library like WDM would meet those criteria.  
> Anybody have any other ideas?
> 
> Maybe we could rent a hotel conference room -type place  for an 
> afternoon and show geek movies with a projector while we have an 
> installfest.  Kind of like a MythTV LAN party.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:55 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] MythTV installfest?
> 
> 
> 
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
>>Maybe we could have a Cialug MythTV installfest?  It seems several
>>people are interested in getting MythTV working on their machines and 
>>we have several people familiar with it.
>>
>>BTW, magicITX
>>(http://www.magicitx.com/modules.php?name=catalog&file=index&cPath=25)
>>has the OEM WinTV PVR-250 MCE for $80.  I'll let you know how they 
>>work soon
>>;-)  They are just the card, no software, no remote, no wires, no IR
>>receiver.  In fact, they even lack the leads for the IR receiver.
>>
>>Some people associated with the EFF are really pushing people to get
>>HDTV tuner cards before the broadcast flag goes into effect.  Does 
>>Anybody have/use HDTV?  Is it really visibly better quality than DVD?
> 
> 
> Great idea. Anyone have a proposal for a location? Would be nice if we
> could do it somewhere with cable tv available, high speed internet, and 
> plenty of space for people to spread out and work.
> 
> -dc


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