meeting in person

[BriZZell]

I understand the group actually meets. Im lookin for help with my system. whole bunch a random stuff in mint. anyway the calendar said online groups. 

When can some pros hang out with some Suto whats?

[Michael L]

online coming up soon, I prefer strictly online for the regular meetups, but I'm up for meeting separately.  I'm not exactly up to expert or pro level, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night (joke / commercial), BUT Linux with help from NLUG did save me a quarter million $ and counting.  I did get very successful use from Linux Mint Debian Edition. 

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I understand the group actually meets. Im lookin for help with my system. whole bunch a random stuff in mint. anyway the calendar said online groups. 

When can some pros hang out with some Suto whats?

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[Blake McBride]

I'm not in the professional support business, but I am fairly good with Linux. I'd be happy to help if you don't mind coming to Franklin. Just let me know.

Blake McBride

On Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at 10:14 AM, BriZZell <thebr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I understand the group actually meets. Im lookin for help with my system. whole bunch a random stuff in mint. anyway the calendar said online groups.

When can some pros hang out with some Suto whats?

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[Michael L]

ALSO- one of the many things NLUG helped me with is networking, particularly remote desktop support- I can assist remotely .. this may lead to a (not unwelcome) explosion of comments on network and desktop security from those who know more than I, like our excellent network engineer Greg who works for Cisco.

He set up Tactical RMM for us, which allows me to connect to our systems and fix in a minute what would otherwise take me an hour.  So since I was admittedly somewhat of a leech my first year on this email thread, I'll assist.

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[Michael]

Hey, I am interested in a real meeting every now and then too. I need to get an old laptop to get something installed on it. 

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[Michael L]

Sounds like it's time for an install fest.

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[Jackie Moore]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 that needs a home!

Jackie Moore

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[Gibson Prichard]

We used to hold what we called "installfests," where people could bring hardware and we would help them load Linux on it. As one of the list lurkers here, having been involved with NLUG since we started in 1997 when we met at Vanderbilt, it could be fun to hold another Installfest. Here is an email from ten years ago when we held one at Watkins Collge of Art & Design, before it was flattened in the name of "progress." Some of the URLs still work and there could be ideas from them that we could use.

Gibson

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NLUG.org <nlug...@gmail.com> Mon, Nov 7, 2016, 11:38 AM to NLUG

Hi folks,
The installfest is set for Saturday, December 3rd at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film:
2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228
http://www.watkins.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkins_College_of_Art,_Design_%26_Film

Meetup post is here:
https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Linux-Users-Group/events/235418167/

Curt, I needed to select times, so I chose 10:00am to 5:00pm; please let me know if I need to change that (or if we have the option to expand the hours, if there's enough interest in doing so). I assume those of us working the installfest will need to be onsite an hour before the start time for setup, and plan on an additional hour afterwards for teardown/cleanup/loadout.

Howard, if you'll mention this during the Nov 8th NLUG meeting, I'd appreciate it.

Call for volunteers to work the installfest is officially open. Post here and/or email me offlist.

If anyone wants to do a talk, presentation, workshop, or something similar, speak up. Again, post here and/or email me offlist.

Comments/(constructive) criticisms/suggestions are welcome. Yet again, post here and/or email me offlist.

Helpful/inspirational URLs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group#Installfests

Linux Installfest HOWTO: 2012.01.01, rev 1.6
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html

Linux Installfest HOWTO: 2014.08.03, update/addition
http://www.faqlinux.com/?p=230

ALE 2014 Installfest
http://ale.org/?p=552

ALE 2015 Installfest
http://if.jdpfu.com/index.html

Advertising and promotion:
I mentioned http://cal.nashvl.org/ in a previous email, and I'm reasonably sure Vincent will pass the info along to VMUG and help us promote there. Where else? Local tech/IT groups & relevant Meetup groups? Nashville/Mid-TN area colleges & universities (IT departments & relevant student organizations in particular)? _Your_suggestions_here_?

Sponsors:
Curt, what's the deal wrt a possible food sponsor, say for lunch? And/or maybe bringing in something like coffee & bagels for breakfast? Basically, I'm asking if we can bring in free food to further tempt potential attendees, assuming we can find a sponsor or two and behave like responsible adults (ie - no messes & we make sure we clean up at the end)?

That's all I've got for now.

~~Dru

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Gibson Prichard

Nashville, TN

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM Jackie Moore <sledgeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 that needs a home!

Jackie Moore

On Jul 31, 2026, at 2:04 AM, Michael <mbutl...@gmail.com> wrote:



Hey, I am interested in a real meeting every now and then too. I need to get an old laptop to get something installed on it. 

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM 'Blake McBride' via NLUG <nlug...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I'm not in the professional support business, but I am fairly good with Linux. I'd be happy to help if you don't mind coming to Franklin. Just let me know.

Blake McBride

On Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at 10:14 AM, BriZZell <thebr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I understand the group actually meets. Im lookin for help with my system. whole bunch a random stuff in mint. anyway the calendar said online groups.

When can some pros hang out with some Suto whats?

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[BriZZell]

i dont drive im in nash by the airport. im still new - is there a halfway point?

[BriZZell]

I need the cell'Installfest. i need help with my laptop too. for example: i cant open ungoogled chromium. no error no nothen. work with my cinnamon. 

[BriZZell]

a really want the physical social help 

[BriZZell]

how about tomorrow at the library 

5260 Hickory Hollow Pkwy #201, Antioch, TN 37013

we could all bring a lunch, equipment, and ill see about a room