Preparation

Day agenda

We need to decide:

  • What are the sessions that we will give?
  • Who will give each session?
  • Are there any specific requirements for the sessions?

Location

  • How will the volunteers be distributed ?
  • How will the stations be distributed?
  • Sessions and lecture rooms assignments.
  • The visitors tour..
  • Help desks.

Installation

  • Installation team.
  • Installation questionnaire.
  • Installation management(some way to connect the visitor to his/her machine).
    • Stickers.
  • Hardware issues resources.

Gaming box

For this we need:

  • A High end workstation. We need plenty of ram and cpu.
  • Good monitor.
  • A Gaming Video Card, should be known to work with linux.
  • Few games we can try, it would be great if someone can provide some original games.
  • Some one who knows about games and can demo them

GNU/Linux on a flash disk

ISO library

  • linuxawy will contribute a 80GB disk. We need someone to download the ISO's. ( I have all ISO's "Mohamed Zaian" )

Custom Ubnutu CD

Remaster an ubuntu ISO with something like:

  • EGLug wallpapers, EGLug logo somewhere
  • Updates
  • Open Office 3
  • Firefox with some useful addons , goes to eglug.org.
  • xchat preconfigured to access #eglug@freenode.net
  • ubuntu restricted extras (flashplugin for browsers, gstreamers non-free plugins, MS Fonts, Java & icedtea plugin, unrar)
  • medibuntu repo provides multimedia codecs for Video & Audio formats (realplayer, w32codecs, adobe acrobat reader, google earth, Gizmo)
  • Music & VideoPlayers : ( songbird, amarok, exaile, audacious, mplayer, vlc, xvidcap)
  • IM Clients (emesene, pidgin with plugin pack & themes, skype, empathy)
  • Email clients & News : (Mozilla Thunderbird, liferea)
  • Internet : (Azureus (Vuze) torrent client, gFTP, xchat)
  • Themes : (ubuntume-themes - Ubuntu Muslim Edition themes, metacity-themes, gnome-themes-extras, industrialtango-theme)
  • System Tools & utilities : (Gparted, nmap, ntfsprogs, kgrubeditor, htop, samba, cpufreqd)
  • Graphics : (cheese (webcam viewer), gimp)
  • Programing : Geany
  • Compiz configuration settings manager (Compiz ready-made customized profile)ahmad zakaria
  • chm viewer ( very useful to view books compiled in the chm format )
  • Any program that supports nokia mobiles (GnokiiSync)
  • Games : (Gweled , Billard-GL)
  • Formula Package in open office (it's not installed by default in my version)
  • VirtualBox ( at least law 3amlna session 3annoh )
  • Please post any other applications you thing you would like to see.! A server install

Install GNU/Linux as a server.

  • Destro's that most people like to install as a server.
  • Someone with some experience in this.

ITI will be providing the local infrastructure. We have the iso's on a disk. I am not sure about the mirror. Should we relay on the connection ?

Prepare hardware troubleshooting cheat sheet.

We _will_ have hardware issues, especially with laptops. The installation team must be prepared for this. I recommend we do some research on this and get the required resources before the fest.

Rescue CD's

  • Linux rescue cd.
  • gparted cd.
  • Windows cd's(yes, I know, but just in case).

VMware/Vbox disk images ready with GNU/Linux.

Any one would volunteer for this ?

Kbuntu/Xbuntu CD's for installation.

  • The CD's.
  • Someone who knows his way around this.