[NBLUG/Announce] InstallFest; July 24th

Please note that this InstallFest is at O'Reilly; the same place as our general meetings. Please see below for information on the exact location and directions. Our usual InstallFest location (Sonoma State University) was not available due to summer hours. WHEN: Saturday, July 24th - 10:30AM - 4:30PM PDT WHERE: O'Reilly; http://nblug.org/genloc WHO: Anyone wanting help in installing Linux onto their computer URL: http://nblug.org/installfest/ WHAT DO I DO: Go to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to sign up!!!! Instead of putting all of the usual "what is an InstallFest" info in this and future announcements, we have a link up on our website as to what a NBLUG InstallFest entails and how to participate. If you point your browser of choice to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/, you'll be presented with all the info you ever wanted to know about what goes on at an InstallFest, and how you can get the most out of attending one. Anyone is more than welcome to attend. If you need help or just want to hang out and talk, you are more than welcome to show up. They are always totally free; you might want to bring a few dollars for pizza, however. We will again be taking signups for this InstallFest, so please be sure to visit that URL if you plan on attending. People, who signup and reserve a time slot, are first in line. We've found that by taking signups, we can help more people in a timely fashion. We can also make sure that enough helpers are available for those wanting help. If you need help at the last minute, you can still just show up and we'll probably be able to help you, but it really helps us if you register first, preferably a week or more in advance so we have a chance to beg for more helpers if we need them. If you're interested in helping out, please contact installfest(a)nblug.org; if you've successfully installed Fedora (or RedHat or Mandrake or SuSE or Debian or FreeBSD or OpenBSD or YellowDog or ???) before, you can probably help out. We can even use a bit of help from somebody helping people bring their heavy equipment in. Besides, it's fun to come hang out with all the geeks. ;) For helpers, the schedule is a little different: 8:00AM - Breakfast (optional) at an undecided location. 10:00AM - Room open to helpers for setup 10:30AM - Installs begin (event start) 4:00PM - Installs should be done by now. 4:30PM - Installs must be done by now. 5:00PM - Room closed; alarms go off, doors lock, police show up. We always need helpers, and we can usually use more helpers than we get. It's a good way to "give back" to NBLUG and it's a geeky good time. (If you're interested in helping out but can't do an InstallFest, please consider giving a presentation, contact speakers(a)nblug.org Since we don't have our usual location, bandwidth and space are at more of a premium than usual. Please sign up early and be understanding if we need to move your timeslot around a little. Also, we're trying out a different version of the installfest registration, so for those of you that have been through this before, don't be shocked by the changes. http://nblug.org/genloc Our meeting room at O'Reilly is located at 1005 Gravenstein Highway North in Sebastopol. http://nblug.org/genloc has links to a map. For those who may not know, Gravenstein Highway is also called Hwy 116. For those who know Sebastopol, O'Reilly's new building is just past Long's Drugs and Mary's Pizza Shack heading North on 116 Once you find the building, you will need to locate the room: If you look at O'Reilly's new campus from Hwy 116, you'll see three buildings. The one on the far left is their warehouse, and not where we will be. The other two buildings include offices and our meeting room. We will be in a conference room that is located behind the building on the far right. If you walk between the two office buildings, the sidewalk splits and a path leads to the right or left - you'll want to go to the right and walk about 15 feet. The conference room door should be in view to your left and you may see fellow NBLUG-ers wandering around installing Linux... -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder, Director-At-Large, and Interim InstallFest Coordinator The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit@freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244