[Discuss] BLU InstallFests at UMass/Boston

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

After discussion at Wednesday evening's BLU meeting, we learned of a
conflict on April 12, and we decided to move the InstallFest to Saturday,
May 3.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 8:59?PM Randall Rose <rrose at pobox.com> wrote:

> I would definitely attend.  Reboot (the group in Rhode Island that just
> started) had a kind of mini-installfest earlier this month, just with
> Ubuntu 24.04.1, so I'm not sure Reboot people will come to BLU's.  But if
> BLU holds an installfest I will tell Reboot people about it.
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, at 11:15 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> > A professor at UMass/Boston offered to arrange access for us to hold our
> > InstallFests there. UMass/Boston is easily accessible from the Red Line
> via
> > a shuttle bus, and also by car.
> >
> > We're thinking of holding the next InstallFest on Saturday, April 12,
> from
> > 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. I'd like to gauge how much interest there is before
> > making the request.
> >
> > Our previous InstallFest was on December 7, 2019. We originally had one
> > scheduled for March 14, 2020, until MIT canceled our room reservation due
> > to the COVID lockdown.
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
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