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

[Michael Loomis]

I have tentatively put March 16th at 7:00pm down on my calendar.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 22:58, JUDI GALARDI <judigalardi at verizon.net> wrote:

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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
>
> 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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