Sorry folks for not getting this up earlier. Yesterday was very long, and I had to do a ton of yard work and shopping today. Anyway, the Central PA LUG Installfest/New User meeting was great! I distributed (with the help of Eric Andreychek and others) about 25 copies of the 32bit disks and 10 of the 64 bit.
The turnout was very good, we had at least 40 people while I was there and more I'm sure in times that I wasn't.
Below is an enthusiastic email that went out to the CPLUG mailing list today from Robert Cline. This pretty much speaks to the feeling of everyone who was there.
"Wow! What a day!
I'd like to recognized and thank Eric Andreychek and everyone else
responsible for the successful CPLUG's Spring '07 InstallFest & New
User Meeting.
Many Thanks to the good people at ITT, who graciously opened their
facilities and bought pizza for everyone in attendance.
We had a huge turnout and fun was had by all!...with people traveling
from all over Central Pennsylvania, and some enthusiast traveling from
Maryland to come and check out our group. I hope you enjoyed your
afternoon.
We had a number of presentations including: Ubuntu, and it's many
flavors, Building a Linux FireWall with IPCop, MythTV, and Linux as a
Server. One of our speaker went to the wrong room and spoke for a group
that wasn't part of our group. " What's Up With That?" Sorry if I didn't
mention your presentation.
I saw people loading OpenSUSE 10.2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and MythTV
around the venue. We had people configuring servers for their home
networks. Todd was working on a Network PXE Install Server to make
future InstallFests better.
To sum it all up, We basically took over the ITT facilities.
Again Thanks to Eric and Friends...."
Good stuff. I helped about 4 people with Ubuntu, and answered some questions. Thanks to Chris Moates for his HUGE amount of technical expertise and help with the Ubuntu talk, and for showing the ease of setting up an Ubuntu server.
I hope that this meeting generated some more interest in the LoCo team and to help spread the Ubuntu brand.
Here's a link to the pictures I took (they were taken after a lot of people had gone).
http://picasaweb.google.com/freelancer317
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