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• Location: Barak Shrine Temple, Monroe, LA
  April 25th: Setup Day From 1 to 7 pm
  April 26th: Hamfest From 8am until midafternoon
  

We have requested tables 1, 2, and 14 of section C. The floor plan can be viewed here. Admission for our team members will cover our booth fees. We have received a LoCo Conference Pack (pack B for non-approved teams) from Canonical. We received 300 fliers and 250 case badges from System76, and we expect to receive a demo laptop on loan from them as well.

Currently, our plan is to have 2 laptops on each table. One laptop will be showing a presentation, and the other will have either the liveCD up and running or be booted into a full Ubuntu install.

Amateur radio license testing will be offered at 9am for those interested. A testing fee of $14 applies. Since some of the LoCo members have shown interest in this, RobDeHart has put together this site to help people study.

Available Volunteers

Available Machines

Progress

1. Make a list of supplies we need
   1. Container for donation/tip jar
   2. Tickets for raffle if we decide on raffling the computers
   3. Surge protectors
   4. Sign-up sheets (name, email of people who take a cd)
   5. Network cables
   6. Mice for laptops
2. Create/find suitable materials
   1. CD-ROMs
      • Hardy is scheduled to release 2 days before the event. We have plans to burn 400 CDs of the new release in the window of oppotunity.
3. Create and rehearse presentation
4. Find information on HAM specific software --IN PROGRESS

Completed

1. Register for the booth, find out cost and ask about possible discount since we won't be selling anything
2. 300 fliers received from System76
   1. 50 each have been sent to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, and Shreveport
   2. 25 were sent to Ruston
   3. 75 were kept in Monroe/West Monroe

Ideas

1. Looping videos/screen-casts
   1. DVD-Movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, BBS Documentary?

   2. Elephant's Dream Made entirely with open source software with all materials freely available.

   3. Application demos in screen cast (FIND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES)

   4. Ubuntu Screencasts these are being updated with subtitles also. This would help with the need for having speakers/headphones with each laptop.

      1. Installing Ubuntu Part 1

      2. Installing Ubuntu Part 2

      3. Tour of the Ubuntu Desktop

      4. Tour of the Ubuntu Applications

      5. Getting Help

2. Pre-installed Ubuntu PC Give-Away

   • Monroe member johndoc has volunteered to head this project. Items can be sent to Heath Carter(johndoc). Please e-mail him <byonichero AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com> to get the mailing information. The table below will be updated as items are donated so the table can stay organized; please let Heath edit it as he receives parts. Thanks in advance for any contribution.

     • Parts Needed	Actual Part Provided	Member Who Provided	Tested	Result
       Case
       Motherboard
       CPU
       RAM
       HDD
       Optical Drive
       Monitor
       Keyboard and Mouse

3. CD of OSS Ham software for *nix and/or Windows(tm) (We don't want to leave people out and it still promotes OSS)
   • Would this possibly fit on the normal Ubuntu cd? How much free space is there?
   • Considering the ISOs for Ubuntu are right at 700MB, not much; and I think it would be best for there to be separate disks, for people who already use other distros. We want to promote not only Ubuntu, but Linux in general as well.
4. dzportwood - Have verizon ev-do card, PCMCIA mobile router with wifi (runs smoothwall linux), and 5 port small factor switch, can setup mobile internet access, spare cables might be a good idea, 2 laptops with wifi working, and accelerated gfx out of box. (MBP, Dell D630) also have 60 Ubuntu CDs all Gutsy (Desktop 32/64bit, small amount of Server 32/64bit).