[NCLUG] Planning for Install Fest and Demo Day, Saturday November 3rd

paul hansen hansenp at CS.ColoState.EDU
Thu Oct 25 14:55:01 MDT 2001 

Well, it's really not that serious at all. As a club you can ask ASCSU for
funds. It is a fairly formal process. Last year we did it very early in
the semester and we got results in time for the Fest. They gave us a
couple of hundred dollars to cover the cost of renting a large ballroom
and the activation charge for the port.  We could have written up another
application this year. However, the two rooms we have are small enough
that we get them for free; by the time we reserved the rooms it was
getting very close to the Fest day; and I didn't have time to try to get
to campus to figure out who to contact about the application, etc (since
I'm no longer a student and it is very much out of my way to go to CSU).
Basically, NCLUG and the LUG of CSU have about 50 members, so it seemed
just as easy to ask a few "relaxed" members if they would not mind
contributing $1 each.

If it is that big of a deal, I'll pay the $25 myself.  It certainly isn't
worth it for me to spend half a day at CSU filling out forms to get that
amount from the student organization -- it would cost me more for the
child care for my son that I would have to spend to cover my time at CSU.

Please note that before we starting using the CSU LUG to get space to hold
the Fest we had to rent space at the Holiday Inn.

We are getting a very good deal from CSU -- I was thrilled that the rooms
we are getting are free for any student organization.

  --Paul


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, shaggydan wrote:

> So, lemme get this streight: We all go to the university, we pay our
> tuition and our student fees, we're an official club of CSU yet we have to
> pay $25 for one lousey internet port?
> 
> I'm not opposed to contributing money for it if necessary but I really
> think it's bad form for the University not to simply give us what costs
> them next to nothing for one afternoon.
> 
> I spent a year in Greely at UNC and we had a president at that Univerity
> called Hank Brown. Hank should never have had anything to do with
> education because he tried to streamline the school and turn it into a
> profit-making organization. However, the student council fought him and
> they've now got him backed into such a corner that he can't even lift his
> finger without wide spread student approval.
> 
> Anybody ever wondered what the ASCSU does for us? We certainly pay a few
> fees for it but so far I've not seen the benifit and I think they should
> be out there protecting us from this sort of (admitedly small-scale)
> reeming. I think it's time we started going to those meetings because
> student council can do a LOT to make the school more accountable and make
> them treat the students better.
> 
> _____________________________________
> Most men do not sing, most men cannot sing, most men will not stay where
> others are singing if it be continued more than two hours. Note that.
> 						--Mark Twain
> 
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, paul hansen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'll take care of getting CSU covered -- flyers, notices to professors,
> > informing the CIS department (flyers and profs).
> > 
> > A quick note, the network is costing us $25. Would it be cool if we all
> > contributed $1 to cover this?
> > 
> > I will also help in setting up and work one of the install stations. I'm
> > going to talk to some other guys about helping with installs. I will
> > update on this in the next couple of days.
> > 
> > I'm downloading Redhat 7.2 right now, so I can provide those ISOs. Is
> > someone going to be able to burn cds on request, or should we bring some
> > burned cds?
> > 
> > We are going to have a special LUG of CSU meeting this week, so hopefully
> > I can enlist a lot more help -- I should have news on Friday about this.
> > 
> >    --Paul
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Matt Taggart writes...
> > > 
> > > > Hi LUGgers,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks to Paul Hansen we have Rooms 205 and 203 of the Lory Student Center 
> > > > reserved on Saturday November 3, 2001. The event will be from noon-4pm with 
> > > > setup starting at 10am. We need to finalize what were doing, here are some 
> > > > notes. Things without names need volunteers and some things could use more 
> > > > than one volunteer especially help with installs.
> > > 
> > > Unless a few more people sign up to help we're not going to be able to pull 
> > > this event off. If you can help at all, please reply and sign up for some 
> > > things.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Matt Taggart
> > > matt at lackof.org
> > > 
> > > > - Advertising
> > > >    - Design flyers
> > > >    - CSU
> > > >      - hang flyers
> > > >        - CS
> > > >        - Student Center
> > > >        - Clark
> > > >      - Professors tell their classes
> > > >      - Collegian Ad
> > > >      - chalk in the plaza the week before
> > > >    - HP (taggart)
> > > >    - Tell your cow orkers
> > > > - Greeting table
> > > >     - staffing
> > > >       - noon-1pm
> > > >       - 1pm-2pm
> > > >       - 2pm-3pm
> > > >       - 3pm-4pm
> > > >     - banner (taggart)
> > > >     - install signup sheet
> > > >     - 150 raffle tickets(assuming we have a one, otherwise
> > > >           some way to count people)
> > > >     - 150 general info flyers with lug URLs, email, meeting times
> > > > - Network
> > > >     - Lory Student Center will provide one network drop/IP.
> > > >     - Firewall/masq/dhcp/squid box (Kennan? maybe tummy)
> > > >     - Network switches (taggart)
> > > >     - Network cable (taggart)
> > > >     - wireless access point (taggart)
> > > > - Demos
> > > >     - mail cluster (jafo)
> > > >     - DVDs on Linux (alstone)
> > > >     - hppa-linux (willy)
> > > >     - ia64-linux (aw)
> > > >     - alpha-linux
> > > >     - ppc-linux (powerbook guy?)
> > > >     - Linux robot? (Daniel H.)
> > > >     - OpenOffice
> > > >     - Quicken Type apps
> > > >     - Other things?
> > > > - Install stuff
> > > >     - staffing
> > > >       - noon-1pm () () ()
> > > >       - 1pm-2pm  () () ()
> > > >       - 2pm-3pm  () () ()
> > > >       - 3pm-4pm  () () ()
> > > >     - copies of all the latest ISOs to hand out
> > > >     - power strips and extension cables (taggart)
> > > >     - "install stations" monitors, keyboards, mice
> > > > - Handouts (in addition to the flyer at the door)
> > > >     - Try to get stuff from
> > > >       - Ximian (taggart)
> > > >       - RedHat
> > > >       - SuSE
> > > >       - OSDL
> > > >       - Loki (Ed)
> > > >       - IBM (Ed)
> > > >       - etc.
> > > >     - tummy?
> > > >     - lwn? (yes I know)
> > > > - Other
> > > >     - soda
> > > >     - popcorn/pretzels/etc
> > > >     - breakfast for those setting up (taggart)
> > > 
> > > 
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