RLUG Installfest HOWTO

Outline

• Semester before
• Month before
• 2 weeks – 10 days before
• Week of
• Day before
• Day of
• Before next meeting
• At next meeting

• Choose installfest coordinator

  Optionally, also a technical coordinator.

• Set date. Generally:

  End of September for Fall

  Beginning of February for Spring

• Reserve room

  Commonly, Duncan Hall 3092

  For Duncan Hall, see Duncan Hall Room Calendar

• Decide on budget
• Make subsidy requests

• Begin deciding which distribution to install. Generally one of:
  • vote by e-mail
  • hand ballot
• Begin advertising
  • Riceinfo calendar:
  Submit event
  • comp.os.linux.announce: cola@stump.algebra.com

  Template

  • RPC calendar: karenf@rice.edu
• Update RLUG installfest website (http://linux.rice.edu/installfest/, at /var/www/installfest/)

• Finalize which distribution to install.
• More publicity
  • Start putting up flyers in colleges, academic buildings

    RLUG Installfest flyers archive

  • Departmental calendars
  • Thresher, thresher@rice.edu

    Template

  • Rice News, ricenews@rice.edu

    Template

  • Alldepts listserv, alldepts@listserv.rice.edu

    Template

  • SA listserv, sa@listserv.rice.edu

    Template

  • Geeks-l listserv, geeks-l@listserv.rice.edu

    Template

  • Newsgroups: rice.majors.cs, rice.comp.general, rice.owlnews.general, rlug-announce, college newsgroups

    Template

  • Arrange for announcements during college meals
  • Rice.edu Homepage, webeditor@rice.edu

    Template

• Arrange for people to start burning distribution CDs
• Start arranging technical infrastructure:
  • Hubs
  • Carts
  • Network port
• Get people to sign up for showing up the day of installfest and helping do installs

• Set up room (9am)
• Installation checklist.
• Clean up room (7pm)