Revision of Preparation from Tue, 24/02/2009 - 10:36pm

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

• Someone who has a laptop and enough space for the ISO's, and can use the application that does this.

ISO library

• linuxawy will contribute a 80GB disk. We need someone to download the ISO's.

Custom Ubnutu CD

Remaster an ubuntu ISO with something like:

• EGLug logo somewhere
• Firefox with flash and java and goes to eglug.org.
• xchat preconfigured to access #eglug@freenode.net
• EGLug wallpaper.
• Music/movies codecs.
• Fonts.
• Some cool apps.
• Updates
• Compiz configuration settings manager
• vlc
• ubuntu restricted extras
• cheese (webcam viewer)
• guification ( a visual notification plugin for pidgen )
• chm viewer ( very useful to view books compiled in the chm format )
• adding the .rar support
• KGRUB
• Any program that supports nokia mobiles
• Gamed : Gweled , Billard-GL
• Java and Flash plugins
• Azureus (Vuze ) torrent client
• Real Player
• 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.