I think we should petition for help for computer lounge volunteers from outside of gllug (maybe the other LUGS and UHACC). We have a sizeable group but it make it difficult. especially if your like me and the weekend was your vacation, and you don't care about the refund for serving 6 hours. I like the Idea of a seperate gaming room. Although I would want it to be a permanent installation for the weekend because the hardware would be too much to set up and tear down every night. We could also take games like Doom 3 (really violent and gory off of our list). another option instead of making gaming completely separate is find a way to partition it off from the rest of the lounge. this would be especially true if we can't get more machines. <div>On 4/23/07, Marshal Newrock <<a href="mailto:marshal@idealso.com">marshal@idealso.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Overall, the computer lounge was a success.  I think that we should begin planning for next year now, to avoid the last minute rush.  If the first meeting of each month is dedicated to penguicon, that should be sufficient. So, my thoughts: 1) Terminal server.  Once it was up and running, it was working great. However, right before the con, it was updated (just updated, not upgraded to the latest version of ubuntu), which broke it and took several hours of valiant work by Jeff to fix it. On a related subject, does anyone know of anything like the load monitor in gkrellm, except multi-column, so we can have nice large graphs of load for each CPU?  If we'd had that, we could have displayed that on the projector.  After all, the terminal server has 8 logical CPU's. 2) Terminals and related hardware.  More is better.  I'd like a 10% surplus for next year.  If need be, extras can be stored in rooms.  I also wouldn't mind seeing better cabling.  A few seconds tying cables to shorten them would prevent the rat's nest that was at the center of every quad.  It would also make it easier to quickly remove terminals to make room for other machines during installfest if need be. 3) Burn Unit.  Largely successful.  The biggest area it fell down in, though, was that there's only one.  Somehow, next year, we need to be able to burn several discs at once, whether it's with multiple machines or a single machine.  There's also UI and admin improvements that can be made.  If Clay is agreeable, I think this could become a GLLUG project. 4) Printing Station.  Once configured to be on the network and talk to the printer, it was pretty good, except that the printer in question does not do network at all well.  Next year, we need to remember to bring parallel printer cables if it's the same printer. 5) Gaming Station.  There was only one computer there, and it tended to be a babysitting machine.  I'd like to suggest that next year, if we do anything with computer gaming, it's not in the computer lounge. Instead, we could probably get an empty panel room late at night, similar to what Ars Technica got.  If we have 3 or 4 gaming machines, possibly with scheduled games and/or talks on gaming on Linux (both commercial with and without wine, and open-source), I think this would work out a lot better.  Computer gaming would have to be staffed during the entire time that it's open, of course. We could use the space that would be otherwise taken up by Computer Gaming to have more terminals or more "bring your own computer" space. 6) MythTV.  I think this suffered from lack of attention.  It was just kind of sitting there.  Occasional demos/talks would be good.  Due to its need for a CATV connection, it would have to be done in the Computer Lounge.  Stan, do you think you'd be up to this next year? 7) Installfest.  More successful than we expected.  Made me dislike Ubuntu.  It was very crowded and difficult to identify the techs.  We also had a lack of available table space.  Not having Gaming in the computer lounge, as well as being able to quickly remove terminals, could help with this. One thing we may want to do next year is have a stash of snacks and drinks available for techs, and to have the front desk be manned by a tech, with as much rotation as possible.  Running around like a chicken with your head cut off is exhausting. 8) Staffing.  This is going to be a perpetual problem, and I don't have any quick solutions for this.  Chick did his best, but there was insufficient resources (aka people) and too many random factors (aka too much fun to be had at the con, and subsequent mental crispiness). This will likely be a topic for several Penguicon meetings.  I think we should start asking for volunteers through Penguicon at large. That's all for now. -- Marshal Newrock Ideal Solution, LLC - <a href="http://www.idealso.com">http://www.idealso.com</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu"> linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caleb Cushing