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OxLUG InstallFest 26/05/02 post mortem

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In general things went well. We helped about 10-15 people, at a rough guess. We even covered our costs (thanks mainly to Alasdair!).

The biggest problem I think was the power cut and the related worries over it happening again. I'm not sure what we can do about this short of moving to a different venue and/or possibly having an ammeter(s) somewhere convenient.

Better record keeping might have been nice, especially for planning future publicity.

It would probably have been useful to have had some leaflets at the door for people to pick up, explaining what was going on, with some blurb about OxLUG and the series of talks following on. Also information for helpers (possibly on a separate leaflet) might have been good.

New versions of KDE etc are just too bloated for old slow computers. We need to pick an older version of something for that kind of thing.

Having some blank 3.5" disks might have been useful.

-- Ganesh

I did intend that for older machines something like debian potato could be installed -- it was certainly available, so this points mostly towards having some guidelines for helpers on what's available

-- Dom