Some new things have been added. Enjoy ------------------------------- The remaining orphans need TLC from a loving parent (champion) Anywhere you see "___" might be a place for your name!!! ------------------------------- ___________________ Demo: ___Blender ___FetchMail (FetchMail can be found at http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ ) ___Firewalling Free Software Development: (in .az.us) ___(Your Sugestions Go Here) ___Familiar ___GDB ___GNOME ___GNUe ___KDE ___Kernel ___Sodi-Podi ___GNOME ___GNUe: (We have 20 qualified, any volunteers?) ___Knoppix ___Knoppix for Kids/Debian Jr. ___Konq ___Links (Text based Browser) (links is also a text-based browser, but far more capable than lynx and generally better. Last I used it for testing web devel it had probs with caching. Otherwise it rocks over lynx. per: Der Hans) (Links can be found at http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ ) ___Lynx (Text based Browser) (Can be found at http://lynx.browser.org/ ) ___MailScanner (It works with SpamAssassin and virus scans. It is an incredible tool!) ___MySQL ___Nautilus ___NcFTP (NcFTP can be found at http://www.ncftpd.com/ ) ___OpenOffice.org (Demo on GNU/Linux and M$) ___Photo Albums ___PostGresSQL ___Ripping CDs ___Ruby - Programmers' Best Friend (Ruby can be found at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ ) ___Sodi Podi ___Viewing FAX(s) ___________________ Giveaways: ___CD Lables, Professional Looking (Anyone have a talent to create "Professional Looking" CD labels?) CDs to give away: ___GNUwinII ___Mozilla 1.0 ___PLUG Business Cards: (Who did these last time?) ___________________ HandOuts: ___How to find out what is installed ___Putting the box on line at home (A guide to putting the box on the air at home - cable/dsl/phone setup, etc.) ___Where to find Help ___________________ Install CD's for Install (Burn) ___JAVA (JRE & JSDK) (3 sets) ___GNUwinII ___________________ Materials: (The start of a list. Let me know which you can bring off-list. We will cc the plug list daily.) General ___Banner Ad, Web Site (We need a banner ad for the InstallFest. We want to put it up on the web site. See the space next to the PLUG logo for canvas size. Per Hans.) ___Easel, Whiteboard, Dry Markers ___Markers, Paper, Tape (for signs) ___PLUG Banner. (Who has this???) ___Pens, Pencils ___Preprinted Signs ("Install Fest This Way" [left, right, straight]) Good Stuff (Parts) ___Extra Floppy Drives, CDROM Drives (for folks with recalcitrant hardware?) ___Extra Vedio and Sound Cards (for folks with recalcitrant hardware) ___IDE, Floppy Cables ___Network Cards (PCI, ISA) ___Power Strips / Surge Protectors (Several Folks Please Bring) ___Screwdrivers ___Spare Keyboards ___Spare Mice ___Various Converter Plugs, Screws, etc. ___________________ Other Thoughts to Consider ___Brief Descriptions of "Essential" Commands ___Desk Top Icon to Counterparts to Familiar MS (What the counterparts are to the Windows apps they are used to.) ___Desktop Icon to Distro OnLine Documentation PLUG Icon of Desktop Research Desktop Link Address to Doc Page (A link on the desktop pointing to an html tour of their system.) ___Debian Distro Docs Link Address ___Mandrake Distro Docs Link Address ___Open Office Docs Link Address ___Red Hat Distro Docs Link Address ___Slackware Distro Docs Link Address ___WTYB Page (what ever that is) (The WTYB page could also point out documents and maybe have a tour of the new system. Per der hans) ___Welcome to Your Box Intro at Log In (What we need is a good "Welcome to your box" intro that automagically pops up when they log in. Per der hans) ___________________ Security Updates: (This should also be covered in the 'What Now'. ) ___________________ Support Hardware: ___LTSP Clients up to 4 more (LTSP clients Need no Hard Drive. 32 meg of memory is sufficient. A NIC card supported by ROM-A-MATIC or with an Etherboot (TFTP) NIC. I should be able to come up with a couple more Linksys NIC's (if someone has boxes) with boot floppies (or onboard etherboot chips) but they require 200MHz of better.) ___________________ Working Computers: (Let me know if we have missed any catagories here.) ___Firewall Distro ___FreeSCO ___One With Your Favorite Software Goes Here ___With GNOME ------------------------------- The Clerical Stuff: ------------------------------- Please reply off-list with additions or corrections. When replying off-list to volunteer, please let me know how you want your name presented, full name, first name and last initial, just first name or even just their email address or nickname. If you provide no instructions I will use the name provided in the email header (i.e. ggambill@compu.....) Thanks, George Gambill -------------------------------