-------- Original Message --------
Subject:
Gnubies revival +  Saturday 24 September 2005 LXNY:
Early
Afternoon Install Fest in Manhattan (fwd)
From:
lo+gnubies-announcement-at-eskimo.com
Date: Sat, September 24, 2005
10:12 am
To: lo+gnubies-announcement-at-eskimo.com

Please let us
know if you want Gnubies meetings to resume and continue. Do
you have
any preferences for future meeting times? (i.e. is the
second
Wednesday of the month still best for most people?.
 Above all, please let
us know if you can help in any way.
 Thanks

Today there will be an installfest that should be
of interest to Gnubies
(sorry for the lateness of the announcement)
- there will most likely be
someone from Gnubies there helping out
too.  The following is the
forwarded annoiuncement for the
Installfest.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date:
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Sulzberger
<jays-at-panix.com>
To: lo+gnubies-at-eskimo.com
Cc: Jay
Sulzberger <jays-at-panix.com>
Subject: Saturday 24 September
2005 LXNY: Early Afternoon Install Fest in
 
 Manhattan

 Reply-To:
secretary-at-lxny.org
 Subject: Saturday 24 September 2005 LXNY:
Early Afternoon Install Fest in Manhattan

 LXNY will throw
a short sweet Install Fest on Saturday 24 September 2005
at
 The Downtown Office of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions on
the Island of the
 Manahattoes.  See below for exact
address, directions, and times.

 Members of CFSG and of
GNUbies will be present to give as much help as we
 all
can.

 This Install Fest is free and open to
all.

 Every member of every free software org, tribe,
drinking club, and family,
 is invited, without prejudice,
without fear, and without favor.

 Newcomers are
particularly invited.  Come down and join us, even if you
are
 just starting to learn about free
software.


 This Install Fest is made possible through
the work and kind generosity of
 the organizers and all the
volunteers.  We especially thank Paul Kontonis
 of Kaplan
Test Prep and Admissions, and Dolly Nielsen of Silicon
Alley
 Station for making this event possible.  We thank
Kaplan Test Prep and
 Admissions for the generous gift of
venue.

 http://www.kaptest.com
 http://www.siliconalley.net


 All
free software welcome!  We do not discriminate among free kernels
based
 upon the first letter of their names.  We shall
install both Linux kerneled
 and free *BSD kerneled systems,
and we will make an attempt at any other
 free OS.
 Because this Fest is of short duration, and because the
expertise
 of our scheduled helpers lies in Debian based
GNU/Linux systems, we
 particularly invite those who want to
install this kind of Home Free Unix
 to this
Fest.

 All experienced installers are invited to come and
help.  If your favorite
 Free OS is not a Debian let us
know as soon as possible, and we will
 advertise the style of
OS you offer to help with.

 All students of economics, of
the history of engineering, and of the art
 of propaganda are
invited.


 Date: Saturday 24 September
2005

 Time: Starts at 11:00 am
     
 Runs to 4:00 pm
       Likely best to
arrive before noon.

 Location: Kaplan Test Prep and
Admissions
           Manhattan
Village
           16 Cooper
Square
           New York, NY
10003

           Room number will
be posted at door.

         
 Subway: Eighth Street stop on the N, R, sometimes W,
lines;
           Astor Place on the 6
line; Third Avenue on the crosstown L line;
     
     Lower EastSide-Second Avenue-Houston Street on the
F, V lines
           Note that some
of these lines may not be running right this
weekend.

 Hardware: Bring the boxes on which you wish to
run a Free OS.
           Though it is
safest to bring your monitor, keyboard, and mouse,
   
       you need not.  We will have such
available onsite.
           Internet
connections via ethernet will be provided.

 Software: Bring
whatever distribution CDs, boot and rescue disks, boot
   
       managers, tiny distributions, manuals, and
anything else you
           want.
 Again, you need not bring any of these things, since
 
         they will be available onsite.
 Extra copies of Knoppix are
         
 always welcome.

 Important: Everything done to/with
any computer at any Install Fest,
         
  and in particular, at this Install Fest, is done at the
 
          specific request of the owner of the
computer.  As with
           
all human endeavor, there is some risk of catastrophe.
   
        Back up all your data, before coming to the
Fest!  In addition,
           
make a list of all hardware and media you bring to the Fest,
 
          and check that you have all your
hardware and media when you
         
  leave the Fest.


 Useful
reading:

 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html
 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html
 http://www.knoppix.net
 http://www.cfsg.org
 http://www.gnubies.org
 http://www.lxny.org
 http://www.nylug.org
 http://www.sixgirls.org
 http://www.fsf.org
 http://www.debian.org
 http://www.linux.org
 http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd
 http://www.squeak.org
 http://www.freebsd.org
 http://www.netbsd.org
 http://www.openbsd.org


 Jay
Sulzberger <secretary at lxny.org>
 Corresponding
Secretary LXNY
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing
Organization.
 http://www.lxny.org