[wplug-board] Tonight's planning call with HackPittsburgh

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> From: Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com>
>To: wplug-board at wplug.org 
>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:36 PM
>Subject: [wplug-board] Tonight's planning call with HackPittsburgh
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>The conference call with HackPittsburgh took place tonight.  Particpants 
>were:
>
>WPLUG:  Me
>HackPittsburgh:  Doug Philips
>
>The purpose of the call was to discuss a potential joint event - a 
>"mini-installfest" - to be held in HackPittsburgh's space, in 
>conjunction with one of their regularly scheduled public meetings.  This 
>would be an "out-of-cycle" special event for us, outside of our usual 
>meeting schedule, and might help us reach people who wouldn't normally 
>attend our meetings or have much awareness of us or our activities.
>
>HackPittsburgh's public events are normally held on Friday evenings at 
>7:00pm.  In looking at their schedule (and being pretty sure that 
>WPLUG's schedule for Friday evenings was pretty clear), we thought that 
>Friday, March 16th would be a reasonable date to do this.  Doug is going 
>to float that date to their membership to see if there's any objection, 
>and of course I said that I'd run the date by you all to see if it was a 
>problem.  I know this is a little soon on the heels of our installfest 
>this past Saturday, but it reaches a different audience, so I think 
>that's OK.
>
>Our thought is that we can do this with minimal infrastructure - they 
>have network access and power at their shop, and installs can be done 
>from either CD/DVD or USB stick (i.e., no PXE server).  From their 
>(HackPittsburgh membership) perspective, their members have primarily 
>expressed interest in Ubuntu (which I have on CD, both 32-bit and 
>64-bit).  So, I would bring my "Linux install media kit" that I had on 
>Saturday - Ubuntu 11.10 (and 10.04 LTS), Fedora 16, Fedora 15 (for 
>anyone that wants Fedora but doesn't have the 768 meg of RAM that Fedora 
>16 requires), Debian 6.0.4, and CentOS 6.2.  32-bit and 64-bit versions 
>of all (except for 10.04 LTS, I only have as 32-bit).
>
>There was some concern expressed at the GUM/Installfest on Saturday, 
>about power availability in HackPittsburgh's shop.  Doug assures me that 
>there are two main workbenches with a total of at least 30 outlets 
>between them, so we should be good on power.
>
>I think we can do this with only a few volunteers.  And (unlike this 
>past Saturday - when, for better or worse, it was not a problem...) I 
>will make sure to bring blank WPLUG membership forms and maybe some 
>other kinds of promotional stuff if we can come up with something (for 
>people who are interested, but don't want to commit to joining WPLUG on 
>the spot).
>
>Does this seem like a reasonable plan?
>
>--Pat.
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