[SlugLUG] Sluglug Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[Peter Belew]

By the way, it might be a good idea to revise the web site's home page -
there are apparently no weekly meetings and the installfest should be
announced.

- Peter

On 2/7/07, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe there are photos of very early installfests on the web site,
> or there were.
>
> Here are some photos on my web site - password required:
>
> http://208.201.231.82/~peter/photoworks/findpic.php?captiontext=installfest
>
> The user name is 'belew'
> The password is 'peter'
>
> KG6MBP is Andrew Stitt. KG6MBQ is Phil White (Cerise).
>
>  - Peter
>
> On 2/7/07, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> > 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
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