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Berkeley In Munich's BSD Berkeley Unix Install-athon

BIM People,

    (Antworten in Deutsch veilleicht am besten fuer dieses Subject ? )

I spoke to the owner of Pele's Computer Bookshop, Schiller Str, today 5th Nov.:
I have Herr Lang's agreement for BIM to do a BSD Installathon there.
    http://www.peles.de PelesGmbH_ERASE@aol.com
    Tel 089 555229  Fax 089 5503711 Schillerstr 17, 80336 Muenchen

He looked worried when I called it an Install Party, so I quickly
reverted to `Installathon' & assured him:  Not loads of people, no
alcoholic drinks, etc !  ( I used the name Install Party as someone
in BIM didn't like the name `Installathon', but `Party' is a word
to avoid for this venue.

I Explained The Idea Was:
   - No money changes hands either way between BIM & Pele's.
   - Perhaps 3 or 4 BIM people, working succesive perhaps partly overlapping
     shifts of maybe a couple of hours each, doing quick minimal BSD installs.
   - BIM installers to bring their individual laptops for reference if
     they have one (if not, no big problem), far more importantly ...
   - Public to bring PCs, & us to do quick minimal installs, & point 
     public to front of shop, & encourage them to buy BSD CDROMs
     from shop ( Shop has to see some benefit )
    FreeBSD-4.6 was 35 Euro next to cashiers desk today (yes
    current release is 4.7, & yes they normally have NetBSD &
    OpenBSD too, though I didn't see them today, but let's be
    grateful for any bookshop such as this, which always has
    BSD CDROMs on the cash desk, right by all the people buying.
   - Install to be minimal: objective being to introduce maximum people
     to BSD & maximal sales for Pele's (which could encourage them
     or others to do it again).  
   - Extensive config work/ EG apache & other non src/ stuff, &/or
     further advice to be done some other place / time, by mutual
     agreement, not at Pele's.
   - We do the event when it's not too busy there, so after Christmas.
     He suggested January. I wondered if we might have too many BIM
     people &/or public off skiing then ? He said May would be a
     particularly good month. He's open, he'd do it any time,
     We need to choose a date.
   - Not the near future, because we needed 
     time to prepare & spread the word for maximum impact.
   - We'd try to do a booking system of maybe half hour slots,
     to avoid congestion in shop. (This could be on a sheet of paper on
     the day, printed from bookings previously entered on web,
     supplementd by people who just turn up, don't book, & risk waiting.
   - We didn't discuss Saturday versus a day in the Week, I think he'd go
     for either, whoever in BIM volunteers to help can decide this.
   - I don't plan to man the table myself:  no need to burden
     the public with my mangling of the German language, when we've 
     got 80 native German speakers in BIM.

Odds:
    - I have a small collapsible table & 2 chairs (if Pele's
      hasn't, I didn't ask).  I could deliver by car, even a
      monitor too if I must, but parking is impossible so needs
      synchronisation by mobile (cell/handy) phone.
    - We should check he has adequate stocks of CDs near the day.
      Maybe I should ask WC/BSDi if they could offer Pele's a
      deeper 1 day discount & extra sale or return stock to pull
      the crowds: `Cheaper BSD CDs this day/week only' or some such ?
    - Tie ins with other BSD paraphanelia suppliers ? T shirt, Badges.
    - If they have the Lehmanns CD too (which they often do),
      maybe Olli might do a CD signing session like authors do ?
    - Organisers will have a free remit, it'll be their initiative
      & time, so they, not the rest of us, will decide what's
      done.  The rest of us may make suggestions, but preferences
      of the participating volunteers are paramount.

Volunteers Needed ! 
    - To print enough BIM leaflets in readiness.
    - To sit in shop & do CDROM installs.
        We already have one volunteer
        "Helmut Allwang" helmut.allwang_ERASE@web.de
        We need a few more.
    - A couple of people to now contact computer magazines, & ask
      them how much notice they will need, when we announce the
      event, & what email/phone contact & format they want the
      event description / anouncement in.
    - People who use news reader software to choose newsgroups,
      & prepare to post later.
    - Someone to compile a list of non-subscriber-only interested
      mail lists for a later announcement.
    - People subscribed to subscriber-only interested mail lists,
      to register with a central co-ordinator their willingness to 
      forward a one offf announcement when the time comes.
    - Someone to contact Hamburg BSD club & ask them what they
      learnt to do & not do & what they reccomend, from experience
      of their Installathon / Install Party.
    - Booking Form On Web
    - Web editor to take this email from
        http://www.berklix.org/bim/install/
      take editorial control & translate to German,
      & incorporate other people's ideas.
      I can offer web space on the BIM servers for whoever
      does this, &/or set a URL pointing from the BIM page to
      an Installthon page on your site, if you prefer. )

Please discuss.  Above all we need a volunteer to take control of
        http://www.berklix.org/bim/install/
Now we have a location available, we need the volunteers please !

Bemerkungen ? Fragen ? Freiwilligen bereit zu helfen ??

Julian H. Stacey


FOLLOW UP:
=============
"Helmut Allwang"    wants to install.
=============
"Rainer Duffner"
> >     - To sit in shop & do CDROM installs.
> I can do that.

=============
Julian H. Stacey:
`L' shaped shop, books on all walls,
+-WIND--DOOR--WINDOW------+  ...... Schiller Str ..... Haupt Bahn Hof -->
|MAGS        CASH     DOOR|
|A                        |
|G                BIM4    |
| CASH   +----------------+
|        |
|        |
|        |
|        |
|   B    |
|   I    |
|   M    |
|   3    |
+--------+
2 alternate areas, Room for 1 smallish collapsible table.
BIM4 has space for maybe 4 people (inc public & installers)
        front of shop, much coming & going, suggested by Herr Lang, OR
BIM3 has space for maybe 3 people (inc public & installers),
        quieter location at back of shop, suggested after by Julian.   
Installers + Herr Lang can decide what's best.

=============
"Hubert Feyrer":
How about "Install Workshop" if you need to find another name.
If they're interested, I have a number of NetBSD 1.6 CDs here that I can
offer for either the 4-CD-all-archs-base-plus-X set or
the 6-CD-i386-install-plus-3000-pkgs set. If they're interested to offer
these CDs, they 're welcome to contact me at hubert@feyrer.de. Price will
be at about 30-40EUR for each CD, discount possible.

> >     - If they have the Lehmanns CD too (which they often do),
> >       maybe Olli might do a CD signing session like authors do ?
I can do so if they also have the Lehmanns NetBSD 1.4.x CD. :-)

=============
"Mahmut Kursun":
I would suggest less than 7 people for an Installathon.  The back
is more relaxed but the front would attract more people, because
they can see you through the window.

For the Presscontact, you should prepare a Press announcement and
fax it to the Magazines that are interested like C t, iX about 6-8
weeks in advance.

For local papers, you should fax this to "Lokalredaktion" of SZ,
AZ, TZ, MM 1-2 Weeks in advance is enough.

There are lots of weekly/bimonthly magazines like Sendlinger Anzeiger,
IN M\xfcnchen and maybe another 5-10 interesting titles that should
be informed.

Also you could send the Press announcement as an E-Mail to all these
people in addition to the fax.

Maybe I could help you with Press announcements.

=============

"Stephan Gehring":

Depending on when ist gonna happen, i'll gladly offer my time to do some
basic NetBSD installations,maybe even on non-Intel Hardware (i could use
my Sun SS5 for that one).
 My laptops runs NetBSD too, but due to unsupported graphics without X
at the moment. Nevertheless it should be sufficient to demonstrate how
to dual-boot a computer using win2k an NetBSD 1.6.

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