Brisbane Installation Festival

[Chris Robinson]

A category 1 meeting room would seem to fit the bill nicely, and the costs are quite reasonable - we could cover that with just a chook raffle (just kidding).  I note that it says laptop connectivity, but it doesn't actually say internet connection.


Regarding planning and funding: Plan the cart you would like to push out to start with, then see if any horses come along.  As far as manpower is concerned, there's no problem here - I will be there.  


I've got a script that I just wrote to make updating a new installation a little more painless.  You do the new  install from the "try ubuntu" boot and with no internet connection (so the install only takes about 15 minutes) and when you run the script it puts all the current .deb files into the correct directory on the target.  When the system is then logged in and updated it only has to download the software lists and update the cache - all the updates are already there.  If the target directory has not been created by ubiquity the script waits until it is.  As an extra benefit it works with any release, based on the major kernel version, you just need to have the .deb files for any release that you want to update. (and of course I have a creation tool for the archives as well.)


I'm happy to have some meetings regarding this, is an IRC meeting suitable?



Chris



________________________________
From: Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Monday, 31 October 2011 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Brisbane Installation Festival

On 20 October 2011 07:13, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Well we've been postulating the idea of an installfest for Brisbane
> for quite some time now. I think it's time to start planning it for
> real. I've emailed The Edge to see availability again and I'm starting
> to put the feelers out for some one to help cover the costs of the
> day. I've started a wiki page [0] to start planning and I think we
> need to discuss the possibility of having some extra meetings or get
> togethers to organise this. Let me know what you think.
>
> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/LocalMeetings/BrisbaneInstallfest
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>

I've begun to realise there is a bit of a horse and cart problem here.
No one wants to fund us until they see it all planned out, but it
appears people aren't really willing to start planning if they aren't
sure it's going to happen. A suggestion brought up on IRC the other
night by James (bejames) was to hold it at just a normal Brisbane City
Council library instead of at The Edge. According to their website [0]
it would appear they offer conference rooms for free for community
groups.

There are downsides to this as well as positives so I wanted to run
the idea past the team before committing one way or another. Anyone
have any thoughts one way or the other?

[0] http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/libraries/hiring-library-meeting-rooms/index.htm#2



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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris

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