[SlugLUG] Sluglug Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[cerise at armory.com]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:03:29PM -0800, Ignacio Solis wrote:
> I've passed on the torch. Maybe with some advertising new volunteers might be
> able to help.
> 
> Nacho

I cannot possibly underscore Nacho's point here enough.  Somewhere in the
archives is a brief description of Andrew Stitt, Chris Rauer, Daniel Walker,
and myself going around campus with a staple gun, a roll of tape, and stacks 
of flyers printed out with the use of admin access on the printers at the 
library.

As Andrew wrote about it later: "We put up a flyer on every flat surface we 
could find -- and even some curved ones!"

In addition to this large-scale littering at the university's expense, I was
going up to anyone unfortunate enough to sit out studying or even walking by,
chatting with them, and passing out flyers like mad.

For a few glorious days on campus, you could not swing a stoned hippie without
hitting at least five Installfest signs.  This won us no friends with the 
facilities group -- but that's another story which shall be told at another 
time.  Suffice it to say that nothing but a few harsh words directed at my
person came of it.

Anyway, the result of all this -- apart from fond memories -- was the largest
installfest that I ever saw at UCSC.  We had coverage from the Fish Rap.  We
also had something like a 11:1 installee/installer ratio.  As I recall, about
three people showed up to help install, and we accounted for something like 35
computers installed that day.

Good advertising, a regular meeting schedule, and frequent activity outside of
meetings are the key to SlugLUGs survival and success.

In other news, it's a point of interest to keep track of which distros are
installed and what sorts of computers they're installed on.  Nacho and I
occasionally expressed remorse at having not kept records of the shrinking
desktop to laptop ratio.

-Phil/CERisE