End of 10 Fort Collins Linux Install Party Event

[Sean Reifschneider]

One thing I don't see mentioned is waivers, ISTR that in the past we had
waivers, we definitely want people to sign off that the installfest won't
be responsible for lost data on the machine that is being installed.

Might also want some sort of scheduling, especially if this is planned for
hundreds of installs, so that there isn't clumps of people arriving and
having to wait.

Sean

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM alfredocisnerosromero via NCLUG <
nclug at nclug.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I hope you are doing well. First and foremost, I'd like to introduce
> myself first. My name is Alfredo Cisneros Romero, and I am a young
> 17-year-old high school student who has made and presented a draft
> proposal for the Poudre School District's Information Technology Department
> to implement Free and Open Source Software.  I have been using Linux ever
> since I was 8 years old, and I started using it as my main operating system
> when I was 12 years old. As someone with a proud passion for Linux, I love
> to encourage people to use Linux (and Free and Open Source Software in
> general), and that is why I am joining this group.
>
> A couple of days ago, I reached out to a local business in Fort Collins
> which plans to host a Linux installation event, as part of the End of 10
> <https://endof10.org/> campaign led by KDE. I thought it was an excellent
> idea; however, since the business owner is the one making the main
> decisions for his event (long story short, the business owner wasn't
> particularly too keen to have one of my close friends who has extensive
> experience with Linux distributions join the planning team), I (and another
> person who was also participating in the meeting) decided to not continue
> with his plans, especially since I believe that it should be an
> installation event for the community, by the community. Because of that, I
> would like to see if we as a community of Linux users could collaborate
> with each other and make a local community-led Linux installation event in
> Fort Collins/Northern Colorado, as part of the End of 10 efforts (for the
> record, the business owner still left his doors open, so to speak, and he
> is glad to help me with the idea of a local community-run Linux
> installation event).
>
> Tomorrow, I will be meeting with the Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
> from 6-9 PM (their meeting location is on their website), and I will
> present my idea and my vision to the group. I was thinking that we could
> maybe use the ideas that the business owner wrote on his Google Doc
> planning sheet that he used for his event (I downloaded an offline copy of
> it that is attached to this email), and many of the same things that I
> wrote with him will also apply for this hypothetical event, but I want them
> to be applied in a community-led way, where every person who is involved
> with the event mutually agrees with major decisions (e.g. inviting people,
> how the event should be organized, logistics, etc.). *If any of you are
> interested in any way with helping, please let me know in tomorrow's
> meeting.* The business owner also said that he would go to the meeting
> tomorrow, so we can discuss the possibility of something.
>
> Just want people to be aware of it so it's on the radar for tomorrow's
> meeting. See you then!
>
> Kind regards,
> Alfredo Cisneros Romero.
>
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>
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