Dear possibly current and former OCLUG Board of Directors members who still may have semi-recent ties to OCLUG: (Your wiki is a little out of date, btw.) I recently came to the conclusion that the local amateur radio community would really benefit from having an "old-school Linux Installfest" like OCLUG used to offer back in the day but with a focus on Raspberry Pi units with demos of how to actually get started playing around with them. Obviously, we would not turn folks away who are not amateur radio folks or random strangers who have Linux questions that aren't specific to Raspberry Pi units or folks who aren't members of any club (yet). I have already made arrangements with my friend and contact at Algonquin College (Richard Hagemeyer VE3UNW) to warn that I plan to be booking some space there (probably Room T119 and the hallway in front of it) for some weekend in the latter half of May. I will soon be contacting several local amateur radio clubs, namely: OARC, WCARC, OVMRC, EMRG, MARG (http://oarc.net, http://wcarc.on.ca, http://ovmrc.on.ca, http://emrg.ca, http://ve3rix.com) to check for interest there also. I already know there will be a bit of interest but I will try to get a better feeling for some actual numbers and maybe mention May as the tentative date. I have also already made some preliminary suggestions to BuyaPi as well (http://buyapi.ca, located across the street from Algonquin College Woodroffe) to perhaps try to secure having a ready supply of spare parts there on-hand at the event for Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard, Beagle Bone units. This will not be a commercial event and the participation of Buyapi is intended only as a convenience to us and to others and the plan is to charge participants $0 for the actual event (option to include food at the venue maybe for a small fee). I would expect that OCLUG and the radio clubs would have pamphlets available for pick-up there too so it might act as a bit of a membership drive also. However, having a successful "Raspberry Pi Boot Camp" really would benefit from having a lot of Linux-savvy people there to help and maybe being able to call upon the support of OCLUG to help spread the word and ensure that it isn't just me there all by myself. Hopefully, some of these email addresses still go somewhere other than /dev/null and reach people who might be interested in helping out. I would really appreciate any help you might offer to try to make this Installfest a success. (FYI: Apparently, Algonquin students are already using Raspberry Pi units as "hey, wow, it still works" development environments for programming.) I look forward to hearing back from you soon. Thanks and 73, Tyler Tidman VA3DGN, RAC CEC OCLUG Board of Directors 2007-2009, OCLUG Member 1997-2011 OARC Vice-President 2012-present