Yes, the InstallFest is confirmed for Saturday, May 3, 9:00am-5:00pm. The room is confirmed, it's on the 3rd floor of UMB's McCormick Building, but we still need written directions from the various elevators to the actual room.
Glenn will be posting directional signs along the way on the day of the event. On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM Randall Rose <rr...@pobox.com> wrote: > Just want to make sure the InstallFest is still on for Sat May 3 9-5pm -- > it isn't on the blu.org website yet. > > Do we have specifics about the exact location at UMass? > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, at 2:18 AM, John Abreau wrote: > > After discussion at Wednesday evening's BLU meeting, we learned of a > > conflict on April 12, and we decided to move the InstallFest to Saturday, > > May 3. > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM Randall Rose <rr...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > >> I would definitely attend. Reboot (the group in Rhode Island that just > >> started) had a kind of mini-installfest earlier this month, just with > >> Ubuntu 24.04.1, so I'm not sure Reboot people will come to BLU's. But > if > >> BLU holds an installfest I will tell Reboot people about it. > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, at 11:15 PM, John Abreau wrote: > >> > A professor at UMass/Boston offered to arrange access for us to hold > our > >> > InstallFests there. UMass/Boston is easily accessible from the Red > Line > >> via > >> > a shuttle bus, and also by car. > >> > > >> > We're thinking of holding the next InstallFest on Saturday, April 12, > >> from > >> > 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. I'd like to gauge how much interest there is > before > >> > making the request. > >> > > >> > Our previous InstallFest was on December 7, 2019. We originally had > one > >> > scheduled for March 14, 2020, until MIT canceled our room reservation > due > >> > to the COVID lockdown. > >> > > >> > What do you all think? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > >> > Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID > >> 0x920063C6 > >> > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Discuss mailing list > >> > Discuss@lists.blu.org > >> > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> > > > > > > -- > > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > > Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.blu.org > > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
