Re: [outreach] planning events for newcomers at the Boston Summit

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

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> From: "Andreas Nilsson" <andreas andreasn se>
> To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:12:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [outreach] planning events for newcomers at the Boston Summit
> 
> On 09/25/2012 05:07 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
> > 3) We need to prepare a CD or USB with GNOME that we will help
> > participants install. We also need to have detailed instructions
> > available ahead of time for what state should people’s computers
> > be in to be ready to have GNOME installed as a first or second OS
> > on the computer (e.g. backed up, can we do dual-boot with Macs?).
> > Also, we need to have detailed instructions about what
> > distributions have recent enough GNOME for people to be able to
> > just build the development version on their existing system and
> > how people get the GNOME 3 experience with their distributions.
> How many of these do we need? I could prepare, say 10 of these (and
> maybe someone else could make 10 as well).

I will be asking people to RSVP, but I expect 30 would definitely be enough. Could you also add the information to the event page about what system we will help people install, how they can get started installing it on their own if they want to do it ahead of time, and about common systems with which people can already get the GNOME 3 experience? I think the more of this information we have written up, the easier it will be for us to do a similar event in other places.

> - Andreas
> 

Thanks!
Marina