[Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

[joshstrobl at hush.ai]

Alrighty, my laptop isn't much, but it can burn disks rather 
quickly (and accurately) and I figure since I got the isos for UNR, 
Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and Ubuntu 9.10 , openSUSE, Linux Mint, Mandriva, 
kUbuntu and soon I'm going to have a Google Chrome OS machine(I'll 
tell you how that goes) and the iso for it already on my laptop, 
there is no need for people to really bring in more .isos, now, if 
you guys wanna bring in .isos for and smaller distros I could care 
less, just hand it to me, 

I'll throw it on my hard drive and hand it back to ya. I'll grab as 
many .isos as I can :)

You can sooo count me in on this.
By the way, Fedora never crossed my mind, but I'll be downloading 
Fedora 11 and 12 also.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:06:57 -0600 David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> 
wrote:
>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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