Hi Guys,
Hope all is well! I have attached comments below, but please excuse any out of turn comments being newbie to the group :) Feel free to tell me to shut up.
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 19 May 2002 22:32 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Install day 2k2 - first report
MJR-mobile markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
We've just counted up & we think we had 12 people. One install took place and there were at least 2 new faces. More when I get home!
PUBLICITY/PROMOTION
One pound buys you 20 photocopies these days. If you print 16 of my 3-to-a-page fliers and 4 A4 posters, you can leave two posters and two
dozen
fliers in two locations. That ain't bad... surely many people can think
of
two places to leave them. I'll make a wiki page for noting when and where we've leafletted, so that we don't duplicate too much. Libraries seem
happy
to help as long as you make clear that it's for a volunteer group. Some computer shops are LUG-friendly too.
*** Agreed, I am more than happy to print and canvas the Stowmarket area. Not sure where would be effective apart from the Library. I will try some of the local education houses etc.
PUBLICITY/PROMOTION
This is really important, so here it is again. What other things can we
do?
We all get free papers and mostly the free papers have events listings in them. We should definitely get in the local free papers for the area of
the
meetings, but that's probably another task to drop on the hosts, as they live there and know their free papers. That's a bit of a shame, as the hosts do so much to help already, but I don't see another good solution.
Another local media idea is if we can get a proper press release together after a successful event. With the number of people with digital cameras etc, it should be not too difficult to do. First we need another large meeting of the scale of some of the ones around the first birthday, with over 20 at Syleham or vastly inflated figures at UEA. ;-)
*** I suppose if a designated person in each geographical location attempted to speak to local newspapers this could help, as long as there is no cost or at least minimal. If so would it be best if someone creates a generic advertisement of wording etc, which all that needs to be changed is the meeting dates etc.
THE LENDING LIBRARY
What happened to this? Presumably, we have some books lurking with David Freeman (or at least he knows where they are) still. There was talk of hooking a database up to the web and having a rudimentary book request system. Did it happen?
Failing that, O'Reilly sent a notebook this year. I'm starting to write book movements in there for now, I'll try to get it online and I'll see about stamping the new crop of books with the ALUG logo (just to remind people which copies are ours).
*** This sounds cool.
MEETING FORMATS
Following on from that, what format do we want meetings to take? Installfests and troubleshooting are all well and good, but it would be
nice
to have talks and demos on a more formal footing. That said, my past attempts at organising it have been comical failures. Someone else want a go?
*** As a newbie to these events, I enjoyed meeting you guys. Install fests are great and really aid benefit to newbies and other people with certain issues. For myself I would love to see talks and demos, as there is such a wealth of knowledge out there. We can all read these things up in a book, but relayed personal experience prevents certain pitfalls and generally doesn't prolong the installation as we all know.
FREEBIES
OK, we've been sent some freebies again. Books have been added to the library (more on that later) again. Other stuff (boxed distributions, posters, pins, stickers, t-shirts) is up for grabs, though. Is it OK if
we
continue to give these away, but if more than one person wants a
particular
item, the "winner" is picked by a random selection with all wanters
equally
probable to win? I'll add that to the FAQ if so.
*** Freebies, yeah. I support free beer, ah, but from that we need a free bus to bring us home :)
Anyway, just some thoughts and sorry if I have repeated anything past.
Take Care,
J
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