Installfest Success :D
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Chris Warburton
Aside from some inevitable technical
and organisational issues (valuable experience) it went really well. We
had enough people turning up to keep us busy for 3 hours, which is the
only thing I was worrying about. I don’t know how many laptops we got
Ubuntu installed onto, I know at least one (but we had no time to test
it, so I just added a Windows entry to GRUB to make sure Vista booted
properly and left it for now) and maybe a couple more. Some people have
got OpenOffice and things installed on Windows, a couple of people came
in after Windows help, so I gave them ClamAV and Spybot Search and
Destroy (I know it’s not Free Software, and explained that, but
sometimes it is better to be friendly and helpful rather than arrogant
and alienating) along with a copy of Ubuntu (which they were impressed
with on my laptop (Compiz Fusion does it again :P ) I kept saying how I
haven’t dealt with viruses in years because I’m on Linux but that’s what
it sounds like). We got through quite a few of Arthur’s Gutsy CDs (my CD
writer fails :( ). Avatar had a complete mirror of Ubuntu’s repositories
set up, which was VERY helpful, since running it through a gigabit
ethernet switch was much nicer than upgrading a system from Ubuntu
Breezy to Ubuntu Gutsy via a 60Kb/s Wifi connection. We got through a
load of biscuits and Guru3 and Avatar had a few networked games running
whilst I rushed around between computers. Sarah and Jo popped in for a
bit too and made up some signs to direct people, thanks guys :*,
although Sarah you should have got your laptop out and we’d see if we
could get your wireless going (I even brought along my PCMCIA wireless
card with Windows drivers :P )
Anyway, yes it was good. I’m going to sort out a room for a couple
of week’s time when we can have another go (this time with at least one
Ubuntu alternate CD ;) )
MASSIVE thanks to everyone who came