<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Good points. <div dir="auto">A scheduled installfest probably would not be very useful. Maybe a sign up where 1 person would sign up and 1 or 2 volunteers would help. Or office hours. Some people, like Dan Moylan just need some help with some weirdness. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" 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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 3:17 PM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><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" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" 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></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I <u><b>want</b></u> to have thoughts on your "<b>have to charge</b>" and "<b>preconditions</b>". <br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Pray elucidate on those and "<b>some ideas</b>". </div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(I understand why we might want a little income to defray expenses. <br>But not why an online event "would have to charge.")</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I can see having regular declared weekend / evening JITSI <b>office-hours </b>for looking at problems either phone-cam-aimed-at-console ("no no not in mirror mode, flip it back so i can read the console please") or share-screen if the Linux patient is running enough that JITSI can run in the browser. But I can't see charging for that.<br>(Evening office hours could be the question period before monthly Meeting.)<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">We'd obviously need to have a rota for coverage for weekend office hours, and evening if declared anytime other than 3d Weds.<br></div><br></div>
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