[Leaplist] hamcation

[John Simpson]

here it is, mid-january, and nobody has even mentioned hamcation yet. as always, it's the second weekend of february, so this year it's february 12th, 13th, and 14th. LEAP only has one regular meeting and one installfest left before hamcation starts.

i've already spoken with the OARC people who assign tables, and the same table we've had in years past is waiting for us. we just need to decide what we're going to do with it. if we don't get any other ideas, it looks like we'll be doing the same things we have in years past- handing out linux CDs in exchange for donations, and hopefully setting up an antenna on the roof and letting linux talk to other computers out there.

we've usually burned and labeled 300 CDs, 100 each of three different distros. usually it's the current *buntu, a mainstream "server" distro such as centos, and then some kind of ham radio distro. i'm thinking we can do 100 kubuntu 9.10 live CDs, 100 centos 5.4 DVDs, and 100 of whatever ham radio distro we end up going with.

speaking of the ham radio distro... last year we used a ham radio-flavoured version of puppy linux called "digipup". it's still around, and last month i found a distro called "shackbox" which looks good as well.

http://www.w1hkj.com/flpuppy.html

http://shackbox.net/

the shackbox web site is a bit strange, he says you need to register in order to download but then he gives a userid and password on the same page so you can download without registering. hopefully somebody with more recent linux/radio experience than myself (phil?) can try it out, compare it to the current digipup, and figure out which one is better. (and then maybe customize the background, re-master it, and burn a hundred of 'em, hint hint...)

once we decide what we're going to do... i can burn 100 of whatever. i can also design, print, and apply labels, although i'm not the world's greatest artist- the labels we had last year were awesome, hopefully we can sweet-talk phil's wife into donating her design talents again this year.

once we decide *what* we'll be making, people can start burning the CDs themselves. we also need to figure out if we want to have one person pick up blanks and then figure out how to get them to the appropriate people, or if we want to just tell people to buy a stack of 100 CDs or DVDs, and LEAP will reimburse them (which i think probably makes more sense, given the short time frame we're working with.)

i have two un-opened boxes of 100 white paper envelopes, which i will be donating to the cause, and i don't mind picking up a third box if needed. if we can get the CD/DVDs burned and the labels designed and printed before next month's installfest, we can have a CD stamping and envelope stuffing party there, and be done with it.

so... questions? comments? volunteers?

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