Sunday 3 August 2003 there will be an Install Fest and Talk at Three Jewels Refuge and Free Internet Cafe 211 East 5th Street east of Third Avenue Island of the Manahattoes 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 East Side-Second Avenue-Houston Street on the F, V lines Note that some of these lines may not be running right this weekend. The Fest will start at 3:00 pm and run until 9:00 pm. At 7:00 pm there will a short talk followed by discussion. The title of the talk is Five Lines in Three Files. This meeting is free and open to the public. There are certain rules which will be strictly observed: 1. No meat eating inside the Refuge. 2. No personal abuse. 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 bring no hardware. Likely we will have enough electric power strips and cables, but bring extras if you wish. CDs, DVDs, tapes, wax cylinders, quipus, memorable stanzas, black cubes, etc. of your favorite operating systems and software are welcome. See below about management of stuff you bring with you. Please read the appended standard blurb about Install Fests before you come down, if you hope to get stuff installed. Jonas Arnaldo and Kevin Mark and Jay Sulzberger will be available to answer any questions we may. In the next month we will likely have special meetings dealing with: 1. Lisp and RoboCup, http://www.lispnyc.org 2. Introduction to network security, special emphasis on time series analysis and key management 3. How to buy parts and assemble a computer well suited to run a Free *n*x We thank the Three Jewels, LXNY, and GNUbies for their generous help in making this Fest possible, and we thank the Three Jewels for hosting this Workshop, and Sunday Workshops to come, Sundays of Free Software in New York City. Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote what="standard Install Fest blurb"> Here is general information about Install Fests: Hardware: Bring the boxes on which you wish to run a Free OS. Software: Bring whatever distribution CDs, boot and rescue disks, boot managers, tiny distributions, manuals, and anything else you want. 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.netcom.com/~casandra/mirror-of-luny-site/installfest/guidelines.h... http://linuxmafia.com/bale/linuxprep.html http://www.luv.asn.au/if/preparation.php3 The LDP hardware HOW-TO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html Linux pre-install checklist: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Pre-Installation-Checklist/index.html Linux post-install mini-checklist: http://algolog.tripod.com/postlnx.htm http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Post-Installation-Checklist/index.html http://www.lxny.org http://www.gnubies.org http://www.nylug.org http://www.sixgirls.org http://www.fsf.org http://www.debian.org http://www.multicians.org http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net http://www.nsa.gov/selinux 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 http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~esb/prof/proj/hello http://www.daemonnews.org http://slashdot.org http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems http://www2.tunes.org/Review/OSes.html </blockquote> ----- End forwarded message -----