Installfest!
Details
Focus will be on installing and configuring CentOS7 in advance of our summer study sessions for the Linux+/LPIC-1/CentOS7 certifications.
We will of course assist with other flavors of Linux, as well as the various BSDs and other unix-like operating systems. If you have requests for other free and open source software, let us know in advance and we will attempt to accommodate you.
CentOS links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS
https://www.centos.org/
Further organization and planning will take place here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nlug-talk
"What is an installfest?":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group#Installfests
Linux Installfest HOWTO: 2012.01.01, rev 1.6
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html
Linux Installfest HOWTO: 2014.08.03, update/addition
http://www.faqlinux.com/?p=230
ALE 2014
http://ale.org/?p=552
ALE 2015
http://if.jdpfu.com/index.html
Start time note:
We'll be onsite at 10:00am to load in and set up; volunteers and assistants are welcome (the official "open to the public" start time is still 11:00am). If you want to learn how to host an installfest for your own group, organization, school, meetup, etc., this is a great opportunity.
We'd love to have a large pool of installfest-savvy folks to pull from going forward; this would allow us to have installfests every three to four months without having to ask the same people to organize and run them each time.
Larger organization and volunteer pools would also allow us to add events to future installfests, like "Capture the Flag / Network King of the Hill," CryptoParties and key signings, ham radio exams and classes, swapmeets, etc., and teach those interested how to host and run these events as well.
Further information & potential additions to future installfests:
CTF/NetKotH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame_%28hacking%29
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~krwatson/ctf.html
CryptoParties and key signings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoParty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
Linux + hamradio
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kb1oiq-andysham/
https://www.n0nb.us/ham-linux/index.html
(still to do: provide additional details and links, incorporate Q&A, reformat, promote)