[Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

[Randle Boyd]

 How about a CIALUG booth at the 80/35 music festival?
  -------------- Original message from David Champion <dave at dchamp.net>: --------------


> The answer is: Yes, you just volunteered to organize it. :)
> 
> We've done several of them in the past... the attendance has been really 
> poor for the last few events, possibly due to a lack of advertising. 
> Back in the "good old days", when Linux was harder to install and 
> configure, an Installfest was a good way to help new people out. Now 
> Linux is really easy to install, run off a live CD, or a VM image, so an 
> Installfest has limited appeal.
> 
> I think having people do demos and training on Linux and F/OSS apps may 
> be more popular?
> 
> -dc
> 
> Matt Breitbach wrote:
> > I would love to see something like that - I can get most things up and
> > running, but having hands-on people to talk to while running into issues
> > would be great!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
> > Of joshstrobl at hush.ai
> > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:10 PM
> > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > Subject: [Cialug] InstallFest 2010?
> >
> > Hey guys, so far I've gotten all my friends at school to switch to 
> > Ubuntu and I was wondering if we are going to be having an 
> > InstallFest 2010 here in Des Moines? 
> >
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