[ale] DragonCon: InstallFest?, Crypto Party?

[Scott M. Jones]

Once I can commit to an event, date, and time, I would be asking for a
room with round tables and power strips to each table.  The down side is
I can't guarantee Internet availability other than wifi already
available in the hotel.  I think that may be the biggest problem.  The
other problem is probably not a lot of people bringing their laptops to
DragonCon (maybe I'm wrong about this though).

I have already scheduled NetKotH for Sunday afternoon but this does not
require outside Internet access though it can be helpful for doing research.

As far as the Install Fest I'm brainstorming but the possible lack of
Internet may be the biggest problem.  Even if it's available it may be
too slow for distro downloads due to high GDF (Geek Density Factor, i.e.
70,000 geeks in six square blocks).

-Scott

On 3/29/17 5:46 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Scott, 
> 
> I will reach out to my colleuge at South East Linux Fest, Jeremy Sands,
> we do a PGP signing. He might have a few other items that you can add.
> 
> Are you going to have space to sit down and do installs? Because I have
> equipment ( 3 x 48 Port 1 Gig Switches, a box with about 100 Cables )
> that I been willing  to help you out. Are you going to have internet
> drop because a lot of install you need the internet to pull files.i  
> 
> DJ-Pfulio install fest was at a Game Store that let us use their drop it
> was awesome. The other thing I would recommend. I can ask openSUSE to
> give media and some swag. I know Mark Ulmer is with Ubuntu, I got
> friends from Fedora that do SELF every year that probably be happy to
> help and bring stuff as well. Because if you can get media, then you are
> going to want to get either PXE server, or a bunch of thumb drives. 
> 
> I have Pi Box that setup with a basic menu that let people pick a distro
> and writes to a thumb drive. 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:30 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not a dragonCon guy, but ...
> 
>     Happy to pass on all the stuff (mainly info and info gathering
>     worksheets and
>     tools) from prior InstallFests (2015 was the last one) to anyone who
>     wants it.
>     A live demo area is on http://if.jdpfu.com/  I use TT to generate
>     the static
>     site. Didn't want any dependencies on the Internet or javascript.
> 
>     There are typos in there.
> 
>     Nothing secret about it, just not ready for "public consumption" -
>     i.e. no
>     how-to guide. ;)   Expect a tgz file and a video chat to get you
>     started. The
>     "build-site" script is extremely dependent on my network, though I
>     was working
>     to remove that dependency.
> 
>     Of course, at the Sunday ALE meetup, we are happy to help anyone get
>     installed.
>     Just need some advanced warning, a heads up about what you want and
>     the system
>     specs.
> 
> 
>     On 03/29/2017 02:05 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
>     > I have no idea what would be good for the event, but I'll be there all 4 days.
>     > I'd be happy to help out how I can, too.  (Also just wanted to bump this,
>     > because the list has been quiet for a couple days :P )
>     >
>     > ---
>     > Very respectfully,
>     > Kyle Brieden
>     >
>     > On 28-03-2017 23:46, Scott M. Jones wrote:
>     >> I'm scheduling topics for DragonCon now and I'd like to know if ALE
>     >> would like to do an Install Fest, Crypto Party, or other activity away
>     >> from my main room, but probably in the Hilton somewhere.  I would be
>     >> asking for a smaller room with round tables and power strips.
>     >> Unfortunately I can't guarantee quality or availability of Internet
>     >> access so ALE would need to bring distro's on prepared storage media.
>     >> Also unfortunately I will not be able to supply badges for organizers so
>     >> I'm looking for people who know they're coming to DragonCon anyway.
>     >>
>     >> Is there any interest?  If not, I'll just let this one go.
>     >>
>     >> DragonCon is Sept. 1 - 4 this year FYI.
>     >>
> 
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