Brisbane Installation Festival

[Jared Norris]

On 31 October 2011 18:04, Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

It seems to suggest you can do it for free if you're a community
organisation and not charging money for the event. Unless I'm reading
it wrong. Either way, the whole day costs less than an hour at The
Edge so I'd be willing to stump up the lot if need be.

>
> 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.
>

Good to hear! I'm hoping if we can lock in a date and time it will
help others decide if they can be there or not as well.

> 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've also been working on keeping a full ubuntu repository sitting on
my USB hard drive. It should make needing internet not required for
99% of the installations. I also have a Telstra home network gateway
(that is essentially a 4 port wireless broadband switch) for any weird
ones that pop up.

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

IRC, wiki, mailing list. Anything sounds good to me. I would
definitely like a mock run through a week or two prior (even if it's
my place) to reduce technical issues on the day.

>
> Chris
>

Lets see if we can't make this happen.

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
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