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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
I think it would have been useful to have the "infrastructure" information more clearly to hand for the helpers as well. Something like "You can connect to the wireless network on 192.168.0.x, gateway 192.168.0.1, etc." It would have saved a bit of shuttling to and fro and bugging other helpers. Perhaps other resources could be included as well, such as spare temporary disk space over the network. I suppose this could all be put onto the leaflet Ganesh talked about, or could be put up around the wall.
-- Peter (D)