[BLU/Officers] [Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LI Saturday March 1, 2014

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

FYI, last night, after asking about parking for the Stata Center, I
reviewed the various Directions pages and then cleaned up the instructions
for getting to E51.

Most of the non-E51 pages direct drivers to park at the non-existent East
Garage, and then instruct them how to walk from the East Garage to the
building and room. Updating those is not a high priority unless and until
we need to meet at those locations in the future, but it would be nice to
identify current best parking options for them.

I had written them all as a set of nested php include files, so updating
the instructions will be a lot less work than revising every single page.



On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> Boston Linux Installfest LI
> When:  Saturday March 1, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
> Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
>        2 Amherst St, Cambridge
>        Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
>         http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm
>
> Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
> Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.
>
> What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
> Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
> In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
> expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
> distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
> Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
> creators.
>
> COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
> welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.
>
> Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system.  While
> Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
> hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
> pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
> distros, our volunteers will normally have
>
>       Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>       Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
>         Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.
>
> Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
> Ubuntu distributions:
>       * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
>       * Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
>       * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)
>
>
> We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
> USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
> bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
> distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
> require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
> prepared.
>
> We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
> wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".
>
>
> In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
> machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
> Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
> machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
> (http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
> 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
> some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.
>
>
> Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
> information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
> the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
> your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.
>
> Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
> Bluefin Technical Services.
> --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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