[Ubuntu PA] [Project] Girls Inc date shifted to June 9th

[Alex Launi]

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Kevin Valentine wrote:
> Kevin Valentine wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback Lyz.
>>
>> I'll get more info on the following:
>>  * age ranges of the girls
>>  * PC specs (greg didn't have them when I talked with him yesterday)
>>  * possibility of installing ubu at install-fest
>>  * are there newspaper contacts
> I just got more info...
> Good news!  About 5 girls are supposed to show up.
> Age ranges of the girls: 12 to 15 years old.
> This should help us decide what software to install.

Are they coming to the install fest or the june 9th thing? What exactly
are we doing on June 9th, just writing a pre-fabricated image to each
harddisk from a preconfigured system?

> Attached is a PDF I got from Terri that contains a lot of detailed info
> on the PC hardware.  To summarize:
>   * 1.7GHz P4
>   * 256MB RAM
>   * 20GB HD
>   * NVidia Vanta display adapter (can this support compiz / beryl?)

I'm pretty sure the vanta chipset is no longer supported by the legacy
driver package, so I would be surprised if it would. We can give it a
shot and see if the restricted drivers manager picks it up, I'm putting
my money on no probably not and with only 256 of ram I don't know if we
want to bog them down that heavily. Beryl/compiz don't take a whole lot,
but they need some breathing room.

> Windows 2K is installed with an NTFS partition.  Looks like we can split
> the drive down the middle and use straight Ubuntu for the other half. 
> The memory is a bit low.  Perhaps we can scrape together an extra 256MB
> for each PC.  We'll see what type of mem it uses on Saturday.

Memory should be fine for a alternate install cd, it should run fine,
but we'll need to give them a decent swap partition size. 512 should do
it. How much data is on the ntfs partition? We may be better off giving
like a 5gb / and a 5gb /shared (fat32) so that they can share files
between windoze and Ubuntu.

> One of these ten PCs will be brought to the install-fest on Saturday. 
> I'm still not clear on who is bringing it.  It may be me.  I'll find out
> tomorrow when I speak with Terri again.
> 
> Don't know about the newspaper contacts yet.  I think Greg is sorting
> that out.

That would be nice to get some press!

> -kevin
> 

- --Alex Launi
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