MJR wrote:

A UK Linux Day has been suggested for Sunday 29 April. The main backer so far is LinuxCare, who will act as co-ordinator and take out advertising to support the event, and other tentative support includes IBM and RedHat (although I'm trying to get some latitude on that, as I don't recall there being many ALUG RH experts/fans)

I'm sure there are quite a few of us using RH or RH based distros.

The main event would be an installfest, with appropriate disclaimers and support materials. Our contribution would be our time and the payoff should be increased membership numbers. Hopefully by that point, we should have awoken from hibernation anyway and things can get going for 2001.

Are we up for this? Any comments to feed back to lug.org.uk and LinuxCare? Shall I start trying to get one of the main venues at UEA (Hive or LCR)? Would we want to be based at UEA again, somewhere else, or at multiple centres?

I think a single venue would be better because of confusion, apathy, and other aggovations. Far better to pool all our resources and get maximum attendance numbers. UEA is central enough for most in the region and it has the best facilities of any of our previous venues.

Do you think we should/could organise a meet before this, Syleham maybe?

Cheers, BJ (aka BigJohn)

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:09:18PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:

A UK Linux Day has been suggested for Sunday 29 April. The main backer so far is LinuxCare, who will act as co-ordinator and take out advertising to support the event, and other tentative support includes IBM and RedHat (although I'm trying to get some latitude on that, as I don't recall there being many ALUG RH experts/fans).

I know nothing of LinuxCare.

IIRC IBM are porting their DB2 database to Linux, have ported and made available a Java Development Kit and have some other software available for free on their web site.

My preferred distribution is Debian but I have nothing against RedHat. AFAIK RedHat employ Alan Cox who works on kernel drivers particularly for multi-media things, and they also got Lucent to release a driver for their WinModem chipset (although as a binary module only).

The main event would be an installfest, with appropriate disclaimers and support materials.

Not having been to an installfest before, what do we disclaim? Responsibility for any data loss or damage to hardware we install on?

Our contribution would be our time and the payoff should be increased membership numbers. Hopefully by that point, we should have awoken from hibernation anyway and things can get going for 2001.

My diary is free at the moment, though it may not stay that way.

Are we up for this? Any comments to feed back to lug.org.uk and LinuxCare? Shall I start trying to get one of the main venues at UEA (Hive or LCR)? Would we want to be based at UEA again, somewhere else, or at multiple centres?

UEA would be fine with me, though I could do with intructions on where to go once having got to the gate - from what I remenber UEA is a large site.

Multiple venues would have the advantage that the "customers" need not travel so far in some cases, but we would have to be sure not spread too thinly, and network connectivity between the sites would probably be an advantage whether that is via the internet or otherwise.

Steve.