Installfests
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Unless we can find a kind person to host future GoLug installfests we will be unable to have future installfests. If you can host an installfest or know someone who can please post on mailing list.
About Installfests
Installfests occur on Saturdays, typically the third Saturday of the month, lasting typically from 9am to 3pm. Check the next installfest link for exact date, time and other info. The purpose is to install Linux and otherwise get down and dirty with Linux/free software experimentation, including programming, admin, and hardware.
- New: During all InstallFests there will be someone who will help Linux first timers install Linux. There isn't a guarantee that the help will be successful as that depends mostly on the hardware and the volunteers experience. But we at GOLUG do promise to try. Please join the mailing list and let us know you are coming if you need installation help. We might ask questions about your hardware and give recommendations on what distributions best fits your needs.
Installfests can include presentations if there are willing presenters. Such presentations typically occur in a corner so that those wanting to view the presentation can do so, while those wanting to continue their own experimentation can do so.
When attending installfests, please bring a keyboard, mouse, monitor, power cords and eithernet cables for each computer you bring. SCC can't let us use their monitors, keyboards and mice. However, you can plug your ethernet cable into their subnet, which has a very high speed connection to the Internet.
Next Installfest
VIRTUAL Installfest from 9am to 5pm, in the GoLUG IRC chat room. Here are the driving directions:
Use xchat or your favorite chat client. Use these parameters:
Server: irc.freenode.net/6667 Channel: #golug
Installfest Topics
Topic for the April meeting needed! Check the list for the thread about suggestions...
Current future topic list:
- Rolling your own LiveCD. During a future InstallFest we will be rolling our own mini LiveCD. If you would like to participate, you will need a computer with a blank harddrive. A small 1 or 2 gig harddirve will be fine if you have an old one of those laying around. Larger that that should be fine also but it must be blank.
Location and Directions
Seminole Community College Building V, room V106 Closest parking is in parking lot 5 Campus map at http://www.scc-fl.edu/pdf/sanford-lakemary_map_0104.pdf.
From UCF, surface roads
- 434 north, then west in seminole county, to 17/92
- 17/92 northwest to Weldon. North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road, West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
From UCF, toll roads
- University Blvd east to the 417 (Sanford tollway), then north to exit 49 (Lake Mary Blvd).
- West about 1 mile on Lake Mary Blvd to 17/92.
- South about a half mile on 17/92 to Weldon.
- North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road.
- West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
From downtown Orlando via I4
- I4 north to Exit 98 (Lake Mary Blvd). [Note: from downtown get on I4 East, which really goes North]
- West about 5 miles on Lake Mary Blvd.
- South about a half mile on 17/92 to Weldon.
- North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road.
- West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
From Altamonte
- North on Palm Springs Road to 434.
- East on 434 to 427.
- North on 427 to 17/92.
- Left on 17/92, go about a block, and left on Weldon.
- North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road.
- West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
From Wekiva
- North and then east on 434 to 427.
- North on 427 to 17/92.
- Left on 17/92, go about a block, and left on Weldon.
- North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road.
- West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
From Apopka
- East on 436 to 434.
- North and then east on 434 to 427.
- North on 427 to 17/92.
- Left on 17/92, go about a block, and left on Weldon.
- North a couple blocks on Weldon to Main Road.
- West on Main Road to parking lot 5.
