NYC LOCAL: Sunday 27 July 2003 Three Jewels Free Software ..

Sunday 27 July 2003 there will be an Install Fest at

Three Jewels Refuge and Free Internet Cafe
211 East 5th Street
east of Third Avenue
Island of the Manahattoes

Subway: Eighth Street stop on the N, R, sometimes W, lines; Astor Place
on the 6 line

The Fest will start at 3:00 pm and run until 9:00 pm.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

There are certain rules which will be strictly observed:

1. No meat eating inside the Refuge.

2. No personal abuse.

Note that every member of every free software org, tribe, drinking club,
and family, is invited, without prejudice, without fear, and without favor.

Newcomers are particularly invited. Come down and join us, even if you
bring no hardware.


Likely we will have enough electric power strips and cables, but bring
extras if you wish. CDs, DVDs, tapes, wax cylinders, quipus, memorable
stanzas, black cubes, etc. of your favorite operating systems and software
are welcome. See below about management of stuff you bring with you.

Please read the appended standard blurb about Install Fests before you come
down, if you hope to get stuff installed.


Jonas Arnaldo and Jay Sulzberger will be available to answer any questions we may.


We thank the Three Jewels, LXNY, and GNUbies for their generous help in
making this Fest possible, and we thank the Three Jewels for hosting this
Workshop, and Sunday Workshops to come, Sundays of Free Software in
New York City.

Jay Sulzberger
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org


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Here is general information about Install Fests:

Hardware: Bring the boxes on which you wish to run a Free OS.

Software: Bring whatever distribution CDs, boot and rescue disks, boot
managers, tiny distributions, manuals, and anything else you
want.

Important: Everything done to/with any computer at any Install Fest,
and in particular, at this Install Fest, is done at the
specific request of the owner of the computer. As with
all human endeavor, there is some risk of catastrophe.
Back up all your data, before coming to the Fest! In addition,
make a list of all hardware and media you bring to the Fest,
and check that you have all your hardware and media when you
leave the Fest.


Useful reading:
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/mirror-of-luny-site/installfest/guidelines.html
http://linuxmafia.com/bale/linuxprep.html
http://www.luv.asn.au/if/preparation.php3

The LDP hardware HOW-TO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html

Linux pre-install checklist:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Pre-Installation-Checklist/index.html

Linux post-install mini-checklist:
http://algolog.tripod.com/postlnx.htm
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Post-Installation-Checklist/index.html


http://www.lxny.org
http://www.gnubies.org
http://www.nylug.org
http://www.sixgirls.org
http://www.fsf.org
http://www.debian.org
http://www.multicians.org
http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu
http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux
http://www.linux.org
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd
http://www.squeak.org
http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org
http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~esb/prof/proj/hello
http://www.daemonnews.org
http://slashdot.org
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems
http://www2.tunes.org/Review/OSes.html

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