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

[Terence J. Golightly]

On 02/13/2012 09:36 PM, Pat Barron wrote:
> 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.

My March 16th is currently available.

> 
> 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).
> 

So you need a 64 bit CD of 10.04. I'll see what I have here.

> 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).

We need to make a soft cell on that aspect of our visit. But and
excellent idea.



> 
> Does this seem like a reasonable plan?
> 
> --Pat.
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