Jason, Sorry for the delay in responding. They'll be needing help with the VM setup on *Sunday*, January 4th. They didn't have a pre-canned VM image, but Mike Kenzie built one that will fit on a cheap USB flash drive (~2.3GB zipped). They'd still need to install VirtualBox and run any updates, but that should be a lot faster than downloading N copies of the entire Ubuntu install package at the same time. On 14-12-21 03:31 PM, Jason Butler wrote: > If its just the Saturday I could probably do it. Are they providing a > canned Ubuntu image for the VM? > > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Aaron Wilcox <aaron [ dot ] s [ dot ] wilcox [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > *To:* OCLUG Mailing List <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > *Cc:* Katherine Woodward <kat [ dot ] woodward [ at ] ashbury [ dot ] ca> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:38 PM > *Subject:* [OCLUG-Tech] Linux VM setup help needed on January 4, 2015 > > The FIRST Robotics Competition is a 6 week intensive robotics project > for high school students. There are several teams from Ottawa high > schools participating, including Ashbury College. What they need for the > Quick Build day (January 4, 2015) is some people with experience setting > up a VM host on Windows or OSX, and installing and configuring a Linux > guest OS on the host. I believe this a collective exercise, so there > will be multiple teams at the same location, all needing assistance at > essentially the same time. > > Please contact myself or Kat Woodward by email if you are interested and > available to help. Anybody who is interested in continuing to help with > the remainder of the project is more than welcome. Software, mechanical, > or electrical troubleshooting experience would be a big plus. > > There are videos of last year's regional finals here > <http://watchfirstnow.com/archives>, the Ashbury Androids are team #4825. -- Aaron Wilcox GMail <mailto:aaron [ dot ] s [ dot ] wilcox [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> Sympatico <mailto:aaron [ dot ] wilcox [ at ] sympatico [ dot ] ca>