[BLU/Officers] Installfest summary

[John Abreau]

I like the idea of doing it in conjuction with the swapfest, but the long
walk from parking to the room is personally a showstopper for me. If I can
be dropped off at the entrance to the building so I don't have to schlep
all my equipment back and forth to the parking location, then that would
solve that issue.

Doing it the following weekend at E51 would also solve that issue.

I see the next swapfest is scheduled for Sunday, August 18. Given your
"ghost town" remark, I'm not sure it would be worth trying to get the room
in E51 for Saturday, August 24. Should I give it a try?

I don't see anything on the swapfest url about when the next one after
August will be. Is August 18 the last one they're doing in 2019?



On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:05 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:06 AM Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, swapfest makes a lot of sense... maybe not August though... this
>> place is a ghost town right now...
>> http://www.swapfest.us/
>>
>
> At some point, I'd like to
> (a) deliver Installfest flyers to every table selling reconditioned / used
> computers, offering assistance for converting to Linux,
> (b) hold installfest same day, at adjacent site, and so offer reloading OS
> on site.
> (c) or hold installfest following weekend so that flyer isn't discussing
> too far in advance.
> (d) possibly have a table inside the Flea/Swapmeet to handout fliers, sell
> my own junque, and maybe do an install on the fly there, in conjunction
> with any of (a-c).
>
> Alas the walkable buildings from Swapfest garage aren't as simple for
> Installfest, so we've punted.
> A^2 is the following SUnday, so we could consider flyering August Flea if
> we create a flyer ASAP.
>
>
> It will be interesting to see if A^2 generates much traffic. Most of the
>> constituents fancy themselves as Linuxperts
>>
>
> Kinda surprising they aren't offering their own service
>
>> so I suspect there won't be much walkins on their part... but you may get
>> some interest on the back to school population in Somerville.
>>
>
> If advertised in the right places
>
>> This is not on their calendar...   https://artisansasylum.com/calendar/
>>
>
> One presumes a little more communications will get it there.
> If not, there's a problem
>
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