Fall Installfest (was Re: [TriLUG] Eat and geek followup - Part 1)

[John Franklin]

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:55:29AM -0700, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Saturday, May 11 2002, John Franklin said:
> > On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 08:50 PM, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney 
> > wrote:
> > > It was standing room only, and after this one, I think we need to do
> > > installfests more than once a quarter!
> > 
> > Well, that would put the next one sometime in August..... which is about 
> > the time school starts.  How many Freshmen (or upperclassmen, for that 
> > matter) at State, UNC, and the billion other odd schools around here 
> > could use a fresh Linux install just before classes start?
> 
> The installfests of the LUG at NCSU at the beginnings of semesters are
> usually pretty packed just for this reason.  Based on anecdotal
> evidence, it's best to wait until a couple of weeks into the semester so
> that people have some idea of what they need for classes and the like as
> well.  Of course, coordinating so that the LUG at NCSU and trilug
> installfests aren't at the same time is probably a good thing too :-)

If it's as full as you say, it may be worth while to have a joint
installfest with more hardware, OS options and activities, or have two
installfests at two locations, jointly advertised so people can go to
the location closest to them.

I'm assuming there's a UNC LUG and that if we did this, they'd want to
be part of it as well.  Not to mention Duke's LUG.  Are there any others
in the area?  Is there an inter-LUG umbrella organization or mailing
list?

jf
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