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The TCLUG Linux Installfest is your chance to get the award winning, powerful, free, and stable Linux operating system installed on your computer for no charge. Simply bring in your computer, and we will put Linux on it for you, or help you install it yourself, and tailor it as much as possible to your desires. You do not have to give up your existing operating system to install Linux. That is, if you already have Windows on your computer, you can have Linux installed, too, and then decide at boot time which one you want to use.
When:
Date: Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Info:
If you plan on attending, please register here:
http://www.mn-linux.org/installfest/registration.php
Where:
Heritage Christian Academy
15655 Bass Lake Road
Maple Grove, MN 55311
West corner of Bass Lake Road & Vicksburg Lane N. (Yahoo and google maps incorrectly place HCA on the South corner, but it is actually on the West corner.)
Note that Bass Lake Road to the East is under construction. There are several locations where the road turns sharply or narrows unexpectedly. Please follow the posted speed limit for your (and your computer's) own safety.
Park in the West lot and use the West entrance. The West parking lot is behind the building as viewed from Vicksburg or Bass Lake Road. There is a traffic loop by the entrance that you can use for unloading. The rooms will be just 20' down the hall from the entrance. We'll try to have carts available.
Dave Christian is going to talk about some cool products from rPath around noon.
Arrival times:
9:00 Doug Coats & Wayne Johnson
9:30 Other volunteers who want to set up or have installfest infrastructure equipment
9:55 Gurus, Wizards, Magi, Noviate, and others interested in helping installees (if you can't make it at 9:55, show up when you can).
10:00 The public
Equipment:
The following people have volunteered to bring equipment:
Install distros portable 250Gb HD (USB, firewire ATA-6 if needed) - Wayne Johnson
Install-server with 120 GB disk and a DVD-burner - Florin
24 port network switch - Florin
3 16 port 10/100 switches - Doug Coats (HCA)
Video Projector - Doug Coats (HCA)
Name tags & Registration supplies - Wayne Johnson
Long power cords - Wayne Johnson (anyone else have some?)
HCA is short on CAT5 cables, so bring your own and some to share, as well as power strips and extension cords.
If you have other equipment you'd like to bring, feel free. We can never have too few toys. Redundancy is good.
Roles:
coordinator - Contact for all other participants
Wayne Johnson (wdtj at yahoo dot com) -
host - Has the connection to the location
Doug Coats (dcoats at heritagemail dot org)
sponsor - Represents an organization that provides the location, equipment, network, materials, food, beverages, etc. to the installfest
Heritage Christian Academy (HCA) (www.heritageweb.org).
receptionist - greets people as they come in, gives them a name tag and has them sign a waiver
Committee:
Wayne Johnson
Doug Coats
Additional Volunteers
Other stuff from the installfest FAQ...
Setup -
We'll have 8 10' tables (not terribly strong, but they should suffice). We'll arrange them in 2 U shaped clusters. Each cluster will have a network switch and a main power strip. We will also have a smaller table for registration and one for food.
We also have the room across the hall for demo's etc. David Christian [dbc@rpath.com] will be demoing.
Internet access -
Connection (or 2) to HCA backbone with Cable Modem access. HCA will set up a subnet just for the installfest, with DHCP. DNS server is via ISP, DHCP will suggest DNS IP address. (HCA does not have a DNS cache... yet).
Telephone connection -
We can set up a phone line on request.
Power -
We have at least 2 20 amp circuits. That should be good for 15 PCs. Additional power can be run from other rooms as necessary.
Lunch -
We'll order pizza from Angino's at 11:30. People wanting pizza can join the pizza pool at registration (donation requested).
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