<div dir="ltr">Bill raises some interesting scenarios for a virtual installfest. I rmember the way some companies tried to do remote installs and tech support in the early days. Wasn't CMGI into that? Linuxcare, maybe? <div><br><div>If you did that, the single day install opportunity would diminish in importance, and the necessity of a help line would increase. </div><div><br></div><div>You probably have a couple months to assess the in-person decision. If things are going well for the Commonwealth, we will be in Phase 4 of the reopening plan and a traditional event would be permissible. I doubt they would let us do it at MIT though...</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:12 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Our charges when we held InstallFests at MIT were always voluntary donations. I don't see why online InstallFests should be any different in that respect. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In principle I like the idea of continuing to hold InstallFests for as long as they are a useful service to our community. As I see it, the two most critical issues are volunteer interest and attendee interest. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What are your ideas regarding how we could pull this off? <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:04 PM Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Chris Allen asked me if we were planning an online installfest. I have some ideas how we could pull it off. We would have to charge and set some preconditions. Please your thoughts <br><br><div>--<br>Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org" target="_blank">http://www.blu.org</a><br>PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7<br>PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6<br>B B6E7</div></div>
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