Installfest

[Martin Owens]

> 1. Maybe I missed this or something, but why have the installfest 5 days
> before the Gutsy release? Wouldn't it make more sense to wait a week and
> load everyone up with the latest and greatest?

There are a couple of great answers to this question: 1) we've been
trying to organise the installfest for some time and it got pushed
back to this date and it's my own fault for not checking the release
dates; the second is that I wouldn't feel comfortable installing gutsy
for at least 2 months after release, maybe on my own machine but not
on random peoples machines who we won't have a chance to fix things if
something goes horribly wrong.

> 2. I was just reading Blog of Helios, and he had written about getting his
> local public libraries to start carrying Linux disks in their inventory.
> Have we tried to get anything like that going with any of our local
> libraries? If not, we might want to look into it.
> http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/318-So-This-Penguin-Walks-Into-The-Library....html

Gret you've got the job of contacting all the local libraries and
offering them CDs, congratulations. Let us know how it goes and what
your experiences are.

I must remind everyone at this point that as a volunteer group we
really do relley quite a lot on people pulling their weight and taking
charge for the small projects they want to see accomplished; there is
a select few who are heavily involved and then lots of people coming
up with ideas but not wanting to carry them forwards. So I put this
plea out to all on the mailing list: if you have a good idea, discuss
it here with the intention that your willing to do something about it
please. We can then get a hell of a lot more done while those working
on existing projects can focus on them.



Best Regards, Martin Owens