[pydata-outreach-staff] Laptop setup helpers

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Vid wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering who is willing to be there at 9:45am or so and help people
>>> set up their computers. (9:30am would be even better.)
>>
>>
>> Psst, hey all, we could really use the help.
>>
>> I'll personally promise coffee and light pastries to any volunteers who want
>> to help with laptop setup for people. (I think we can make room in our PSF
>> grant for it, but if not, I'll cover it or find other sponsorship.)
>
> How sweet, I was going to be there early regardless of the coffee(not
> a drinker), hence didnt chime in. So feel free to shout out when ever
> you need help with an Ubuntu/Debian box.
>
> I'll be coming in early to check the AV arrangements (yes we have free
> video recording that will go up on pyvideo.org ...yippee :)) - Does
> anyone have a spare SD card that can hold a few hours worth of raw
> unedited video footage? PLEASE bring it with you on Sunday - we'll
> need it only to grab the raw footage from the AV folks and transfer it
> to someone's laptop. That is all.

Cool! re: recording

I'll be able to 'scp' things to my laptop over the wifi, and will have a 
2GB SD card at the event, but I suspect that is not big enough.

>> But really it should be OK if you are willing to just listen to people as
>> they explain weird things going on, and then ask them if they actually
>> followed the directions, and then notice that mostly the problems come up
>> from people who didn't follow the directions. (:
>
> Asheesh is right. It is not very hard to help people ..sometimes its
> just a case of missing a step. So do volunteer, it'll be fun!

: D,

-- Asheesh.