[Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

[joshstrobl at hush.ai]

that still sounds great, whatever we try to do to get people to 
migrate over to Linux seems fine by me. 

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:11:54 -0600 David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> 
wrote:
>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-----
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>> 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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