Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas - Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:29:28 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:29:28 -0500

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Alexander Ray wrote:
> Time to start talkin about what we're doing this semester. Here's my
> thoughts on it
>
> Realm Linux - Dr. Warren Jasper. This needs to be later in the semester so
> Dr. Jasper can reserve a room in CoT (they need adequate warning). This is
> where its been tested and developed and means no demo failure! come out and
> see the future of ncsu-flavored linux.
>
> Not a presentation but related:
> FOSS Fair - Dunno if Jack Neely's doing this again this year, but we should
> *probably* show up and do something to support it this year. Personally I'd
> be all for volunteering/helping if it got me outta class for the day (which
> means i can see *all* the talks i want to, instead of the ones i could make
> like last year).

Gah! Time has gotten away from me. I have permission to do so but I
need to schedule and work with the CSC folks and get their buy-in. You
guys have permission to pester me.

I need a sponsor to provide lunch. That was really the one thing about
last year's event. I'm leaning toward doing this as a full out barcamp
on a Saturday. (I did it during classes last year to be a little more
visible.) Thoughts?

>
> Possibly related to the above:
> ANTI-E115/ Linux101/ whatever: Freshmen enter the college of engineering
> forced to learn a kludgy, text-based interface to old legacy infrastructure
> that generally leaves the impression that Linux is for the intensely
> masochistic. while this may or may not be the case, we could at the very
> least put some kind of presentation/demo/learning experience together to
> show people what Linux *really* is. This could be in conjunction with a
> talk, with an installfest, with the FOSS Fair, or completely standalone.
> Regardless of how it's done, my vote is that we need this, at the very
> least to get more exposure to the broader campus.
>

Oh gosh yes. ;-)

Also, I'm still working forward to getting to the place where it becomes
much more easier to have multiple distributions in the Realm Linux
handbag. Hopefully in the next couple months some tools or testing
items will begin to appear.

Jack

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