Re: Installfest

[j0seph sheedy <ftjls@uaf.edu>]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Seth Burr de_l'Isle wrote:

> Writing from Cancun. . .
> Slow connection. . .

  Writing from McMurdo station, antarctica. . .
  oh wait, super-phat 15kB/s line!

> Why don't we start thinking about an installfest in the middle of next
> month.
> ASUAF got networking for their voting in the middle of wood
> center.  Anyone want to work on that?

The middle of February sounds great.   I'll be glad to take a look into
getting a network drop at the tables, when i get back at the tail end of
january.  Are we all agreed that Wood Center is still the best place to
hold an installfest?  I like it.

Now that we have a fair bit of demo-ing experience under our collective
belts and garters (2 installfests, TechnoExpo, Macintosh user's group
demo...), we've got what it takes to make this one a good one.  I think
with better advertising, particularly outside of the UAF community, and a
better effort at slinging together a good demo machine (Thanks to Dave in
the past for providing his super slick box!).  For instance, we could have
a bunch of the 'killer appz' running on virtual desktops, all the time, so
we can demo them at will.   (I'm talking about Wordperfect, the GIMP,
Netscape, and such, not the _real_ killers, like LyX and gcc {and grep,
and vim, .....} )

> slow connection /spannish keyboard too much for me.  Take Care!

  slow connection /Windows95 too much for me.  

happy linuxing!,		j0seph