[Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

[David Champion]

Yep, that's what we've done in the past - have a few of each on hand, 
and burn more on demand.

Another thing that may be handy, if the distro supports it, is to have 
local update mirrors. These days the post-install updates might be a 
couple hundred megs of downloads.

-dc

Matt Stanton wrote:
> It would make sense to have a few cds, but not very many.  What would be 
> useful would be for someone to bring a computer with a dvd burner and a 
> stack of cds and dvds to burn.  We could assign people who are committed 
> to showing up early the task of downloading a few distro ISOs to bring 
> in on thumbdrives or whatnot.  It would also be radically handy to have 
> the 'burner computer' set up with usb-creator-gtk or any similar USB 
> startup disk formatter for those who want to speed up their netbook over 
> XP home with ubuntu netbook remix or something.  I'm sure many of you 
> probably work in environments where netbooks are popular, so some 
> workplace bulletin board posts would be in order.
>
> I would imagine that we could have pretty good success with netbook 
> linux installs, since a netbook isn't the sort of thing you would use 
> for gaming or any other tasks that keep people glued to windows (even I 
> have a Vista Ultimate on my home desktop because I'm hopelessly addicted 
> to Left 4 Dead 2 and various other Valve games).
>
> We could also have a person designated for adding people who show up at 
> the event to the cialug mailing list so that they can get any support 
> they need for their new linux install later.
>   
>> I wouldn't get too gung-ho about obtaining / burning large quantities of 
>> CD's... historically we always end up with lots of leftovers. Not trying 
>> to rain on your parade...
>>
>> If we did do some promotion, we might have better attendance. Just takes 
>> a few people with some enthusiasm and a little creativity.
>>
>> -dc
>>     
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