Installathon

[Steven Isaacson <spisaacs@xxxxxxx>]

All,

This is what we outlined at the meeting on Thursday regarding the
Installathon that we will be having next fall. We need to keep busy on
this over the summer to make the whole process flow smoothly.

Installathon

K-Day
  - Advertise (targeting)
  - Live CD (again ~100 cds) - Morphix
    - Gnome 2.6
1 or 2 weeks after K-Day
Presentations/Discussion
Adopt a N00b (Andy)
  - Mentor Program
  - Install @ Installathon
  - Distro of Mentor's choice
    - Find people who want to install a distro and pair mentor w/ n00b
External Backup
  - Storage
    - At Least 200 GB (GZfserv - Dan)
    - CD Burners
Live CD
  - Labels
  - Slimline Cases
    - Keep eyes open for $0 deals
    - Save reciepts
  - Homepage set to lug.mtu.edu
  - IRC to LUG
  - Engineering Software?

Distro's
 Debian
 Gentoo
 Fedora(Core 2)
 Slackware
 Mandrake--
 Suse--
 Open BSD
 Free BSD
 -- <-- not to many people running these atm

Targeting
 Why Linux?
 Computer Science
 Engineering
 Community
 Free 
 Stability
 Virus
   - No resnet disconnection
   - Little adware or spyware
 Security
 Upgrade and maintenace paths
 Remote access
 Tux
 Customizable

-steve
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