[ale] DragonCon: InstallFest?, Crypto Party?
Kyle Brieden
kyle at txmoose.com
Wed Mar 29 21:49:28 EDT 2017
If we have enough prep time, it should be *relatively* easy to pull down
mirrors of the major distro repos and just host them on a server on the
switch. We don't have to pull down exhaustive repos, just the main,
security, etc... repos. We can serve up a PXE environment, then have a
local repos and that should do just fine.
---
Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden
On 29-03-2017 18:12, Scott M. Jones wrote:
> 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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