We can certainly use more than one room at Watkins. We'll have gigabit wired Internet access available, as well as open 802.11ac WiFi. In the past several members who are bandwidth starved at home have used the day to download current distros and such.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:51 AM, NLUG.org <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 10:55:07 AM UTC-5, Michael L wrote: > > > Whichever date you decide to go with will work for me. I'll bring > camcorder just in case we find a use for it. > > It'll probably be Dec 3rd; in fact, no one on Meetup has voted for Dec > 10th. > > And no one on the NLUG list has expressed a preference at all; is there no > interest here in an installfest? I understand that most folks subscribed to > the list probably don't need help installing Linux, but the installfest is > primarily a recruiting tool for new users, as well as a helpdesk for those > who are having problems they can't resolve themselves. So are we going to > have any volunteers from the NLUG list & Vandy meetings helping out? Assume > a Dec 3rd date at Watkins. > > Also, I'd appreciate it if NLUG members who are also involved with other > local/regional tech groups (ie - VMUG, NashMicro, Make Nashville, etc.) > would contact me & help spread the word to their groups. Suggestions for > other ways of publicizing the installfest (ie - http://cal.nashvl.org/ ) > would also be appreciated. > > Finally, we have the space, I believe, to do a bit more than just an > installfest. Curt showed me two rooms we could use at Watkins. If there's > interest and we have enough people show up to justify it, I believe we can > use one room for the installfest/helpdesk, and the other for talks, > advanced topics, workshop(s), a Network King of the Hill (ie - a > hack/defend LAN), _your_suggestion_here_, etc. I'll confirm with Curt that > this is an option. > > ~~Dru > > PS - I extended the Meetup poll 48hrs since they were having issues mass > mailing members via the web interface (sending the message & poll info via > standard email worked fine). I'll post the results here and on the Meetup > group late Sunday night/Monday morning. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
