[lug] BLUG 99 CU Linux Installfest

[Brian Ketelsen]

Glenn,
I finished my Yellowdog installation Friday night.  If you don't have
anyone else to demo a PPC machine, give me a call.  I might be
persuaded to bring in my G4.  I can't really answer any questions
about it yet, but if you have other gurus nearby we might be able to
wing it.

Brian Ketelsen

--- Glenn Ashton <gfa at idiom.com> wrote:
> 
> Date: November 20, 1999 9:30am-4:00pm (Setup at 8:00am)
> Place: UMC Rooms 158a-b,159a-b
> Sponsors: The Buffalo Chip and Boulder Linux User's Group
> 
> We had a brief and productive meeting last night.  Those attending
> were:
> Gary Masters, Chuck Morrison, Mike Pedersen and Glenn Ashton.
> 
> We have great support from CU's Buffalo Chip and they have
> contacted
> Redhat and Metrowerks, whose products they vend for marketing
> support.
> The Buffalo Chip has offered to burn cd's and they will be keeping
> the
> store open for people who want to buy boxed Redhat.  They are also
> having
> the ethernet ports activated for us in the two rooms that we will
> be
> using.
> 
> Here's what we came up with at the meeting:
> 
> We will have a "demo theater" - using the Buffalo Chip's projector
> and on
> a 2.5 hour rolling schedule, we will install Linux and demonstrate
> the
> Gimp, StarOffice, Lyx, and Quake III.  Chuck 
> Morrison<cmorrison at info2000.net> and Mike 
> Pedersen<PederMJ at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM> are coordinating
> this area and I'm sure other input would be great!  The
> "mini-theater" is
> part of one of the rooms we have, with the accordian doors closed
> and will
> seat approximately 15 people.
> 
> Help Desk and Installations:
> 
> We have another room devoted to help desk and installations.  Chuck
> volunteered to put together some paper handouts on various
> important URL's
> to the Linux Community.  I think it would be great to have as much
> info as
> possible that we can hand out.
> 
> Gary Masters is heading up the Installation/Help Desk area for now,
> and we
> hope lots of people would make themselves available to help those
> who need
> help getting installs going.
> 
> I thought that if Sean was amenable, he could also provide his
> expertise
> in the help desk area.
> 
> Exhibits in the Mini-Expo Area:
> 
> We have room for about 10 machines to "demo" various cool things
> about
> Linux.  We need the following:
> 
> 1)  Yellowdog demo-  someone to show off Linux on Mac hardware
> 
> 2)  Civilization Call to Power or another cool game- (it's campus)
> 
> 3)  Apache/Netscape- 
> 
> 4)  Integrated Development Environment(s)/ Compilers
> 
> 5)  Secure Shell
> 
> We also need power strips.
> 
> We have:
> 
> 1) Demo of Redhat Linux on Alpha (Glenn's alpha)
> 
> 2) Samba - Gary Masters and Mike Pedersen
> 
> 3) Dual Boot, Dual Processor Pentium- Bill <winrip at diac.com>
> 
> 4) Gary said that he could have a friend install and we could show
> my
> SparcStation IPX running Linux, possibly as an X terminal to the
> Alpha.
> 
> The following people have expressed a desire to help with this
> event:
> 
> Sean Reifschneider
> Bill (winrip at diac.com)
> Wayde Allen
> Chuck Morrison
> Jason Crosswhite
> Kyle Moore
> Ian Hall-Beyer
> Jeff Howell
> John Edwards
> PC Drew
> Calvin Dodge
> Ferdinand P. Schmid
> David Emile Lamy
> Jim Delmonico
> Sebastian Sobelewski
> Gary Masters
> T LaWall
> Michael Pedersen
> Chuck Fisher- Buffalo Chip
> Chuck Johnson- Buffalo Chip
> 
> We'll need every one to commit and let us know the area they want
> to help
> in.
> 
> Questions?  Let me know.  I am planning to be at the meeting
> Thursday.
> 
> -Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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