[nycbug-talk] InstallFest?

[Pete Wright]

Pastor Mac wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> It was finally cool to (flesh)meet some of you Monday at the Apple 
> Store.  It was events like that and stuff I'm reading about on the 
> list that make me wish I was making a 100k a year and living in 
> Manhattan (I suspect you almost need that much to live in 
> Manhattan)...but right now I'd be happy with the 100k...
>
> Anyhew, is there an installfest coming up soon?  I've a couple of 
> beige Power Mac clones I'd like to try NetBSD on.  Thanks to Kevin 
> Reiter, I'll be getting FreeBSD going on a x86 box hopefully next 
> week.  Like I said in a previous post, I'm trying hard not to sound 
> overly dorky and I really do appreciate the welcome you all have given 
> to this newbie.
>
> Also wik:  I know I live in Sussex which might be off the edge of the 
> universe for some but I'd be happy to host some form of festive 
> gathering in the "country"  sometime this summer.  I live literally 
> next to the fire house so safety can generally be assured...we have an 
> outdoor grill and we live at a farmside garden so there's a bit of 
> space.  Unfortunately I'm not wireless yet (I do have 1.5 mip DSL) so 
> if you bring machines we'll have to have a wired switch.  If there's 
> interest in a party/installfest up here, email me and let's put 
> something together.
>

this sounds pertty interesting.  if we can get a good group of people to 
go it should be pretty fun.  the downside to for me is time.  so maybe 
i'm a tennative yes, is that non-commital enough ;)

-p