City of Largo Hack Fest

[Jorge E. Gomez]

Just saw this on Dave Richard's City of Largo Work Blog, and thought
it might be interesting to the list, since Dave works mostly with thin
clients:


Largo Hack Fest Wiki Page

Stormy has been so kind as to drop me a few lines concerning having a
Largo Hack Fest. There are issues related to enterprise and thin
client use of GNOME and Linux that I think would be interesting to all
of you developers. I'm envisioning that we set up a network, and let
you connect your laptops and software and then test them over remote
display to thin clients and see how they work. Lot's of cool things
happening with gnome-shell, but unfortunately I haven't had a free
second to try and build it and test it remotely. I was also thinking
that we could converse with neighboring City and County governments
and have them directly describe issues they are having in thinking
about moving to open source software. Lastly, we have around 800
'regular users' that can be used for focus group testing and bouncing
ideas. Things that make sense only to technical people assure us of a
nice 1% desktop share. :) We have to take strides to go after regular
users, and enterprise usage. That's where the numbers will increase.

I know the Boston Summit is coming up soon, so we have to think about
a time to hold the event. I have created a very basic Wiki page[1]
with my current ideas. You are very welcome to begin adding your own
notes and ideas and let's try and get some dates locked in. It would
be my pleasure to meet more of you face to face!

[1] http://live.gnome.org/HackFest/Largo2009