The IinstallFest in SF was a great success! Effusive thanks to organizer Elizabeth Krumbach and her partner MJ, his colleague Michael, and Leif Ryge. Their brilliance and tenacity were dazzling. I had struggled and failed for 18 mos. to get Ubuntu running on a custom desktop system I purchased specifically to run dual boot system. It took four hours of brilliant engineering on Sunday to get Lucid Lynx installed, and another two hours to pinpoint the hardware problem. I was blown away by the intellectual power and unrelenting determination. Not only did these guys open up the computer in order to install Ubuntu, they carried the equipment on a hot sunny day through the Carnivale Parade on Mission Street! Words cannot express how grateful I am.<br>
<br>Anet<br><br><br> I schlepped my custom desktop rig to SF<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Grant Bowman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com">grantbow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Here's an event announcement that may be of interest.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Grant Bowman<br>
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam</a><br>
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From: Elizabeth Krumbach <<a href="mailto:lyz@princessleia.com">lyz@princessleia.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM<br>
Subject: Ubuntu 10.04 Installfest at Noisebridge, Sunday May 30th, 11-5<br>
To: SF-LUG <<a href="mailto:sf-lug@linuxmafia.com">sf-lug@linuxmafia.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:balug-talk@lists.balug.org">balug-talk@lists.balug.org</a><br>
Cc: Leif Ryge <<a href="mailto:leif@synthesize.us">leif@synthesize.us</a>>, Grant Bowman<br>
<<a href="mailto:grantbow@ubuntu.com">grantbow@ubuntu.com</a>>, Mark Terranova <<a href="mailto:mark@tuxwings.org">mark@tuxwings.org</a>><br>
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Hey folks,<br>
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Just wanted to drop the list a quick note in case the word hadn't been<br>
passed along at a meeting yet, the Ubuntu California team and the<br>
Noisebridge hackerspace in the Mission have teamed up to host an<br>
installfest for Ubuntu 10.04 this weekend over at Noisebridge, two<br>
blocks South of 16th & Mission BART:<br>
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Date: Sunday May 30th<br>
Time: 11AM-5PM<br>
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, San Francisco (there is a<br>
doorbell near the door)<br>
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Details: Have a machine you want to install Ubuntu on? Have some<br>
problems with a current Ubuntu install you want to help fixing? Have<br>
general questions about Ubuntu and Linux you wish to have answered?<br>
Just want to bring along a system you've been meaning to upgrade to<br>
10.04 and want some company while you do the upgrade? Want to<br>
volunteer to help, or just hang out? Join us!<br>
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<a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest</a><br>
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Please bring all cables (and a monitor, if applicable) required to get<br>
your machine running, Noisebridge probably will have some equipment<br>
laying around but we don't want to depend upon using it.<br>
<br>
Cheers.<br>
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--<br>
Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2<br>
<a href="http://www.princessleia.com" target="_blank">http://www.princessleia.com</a><br>
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