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Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've arranged to get another pitch at the Exeter Hospital Radio Fun Day > this year. Learning from last year, I thought this year it would be > good to have some machines up and running with internet access so > visitors to the Fun Day can come along and browse the internet and in > the process have a play with Linux. > > For this we're ideally going to need a few things which I'm hoping we > could raise some funds for. > > The things we will need at the moment are... > > - A Gazebo with side panels (so if it rains the computers and visitors > will be kept dry, if it's sunny it'll keep the sun off the screens). I > had a look at the Argos web site and they have gazebo's starting at > about £10, with side panels costing an about additional £25. I did > think about a floor sheet too but I'm not sure if we'd really need > something like that or not (guess it depends on if the weather is good > or not). If anyone already has a Gazebo which has 3 metre sides (so > it's a square shape) which we could borrow that would be great. > > - A Devon & Cornwall GNU/Linux User Group banner. I thought this would > be more professional looking than last year which was some pictures of > Tux printed in colour on an A3 sheet and put on a cardboard background. > The banners are about £50 ish but they are about 3 metres by about 1 > metre and made out of some sort of material so they can be re-used for > other events. > > - Tables and chairs of some description. I think one table will be > provided, but I think we might do with another table and a couple of > chairs. Asda do some canvas chairs for £4 each (under their Asda > Outdoor Living Range - Green Quad Chairs). I can bring two of these > along. Not sure about tables, anyone do regular car boot sales who > could bring one along or suggest something? > > Assuming Tom Brough is happy for us to use his mobile LTSP installation, > we will have a couple of laptops and an LTSP server running over > wireless. The internet access is provided by a Three Mobile 3G > Broadband modem. I can get a generator from Gemini FM which should be > beefy enough to power the machines for a couple of hours (maybe a petrol > can of fuel might be useful too). > > If anyone is able to lend a hand, maybe help people out and discuss > Linux on the day, that would be good. I also thought we could give away > copies of The Open Disc and maybe a live Linux distro such as an Ubuntu > disc (might be worth ordering a whole load now thinking about it). > > Can't think of anything else off the top of my head. > > The actual fun day will be on 16th August 2008 at Heavitree Hospital > (next to the Police station). I think it runs from 10am to 4pm although > we could do with being their much earlier, probably about 8am to setup. > > If anyone can help out that would be great. > > Ta, > > Rob > > When is it ? Ah, 16th August I may be out with the Paignton vets team, not sure yet. Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html