[BLU/Officers] Installfest summary

[Kurt Keville]

There will be a minor uptick in student headcount in 2 weeks but I know a
lot of students stay on vacation until Labor Day, mostly because of housing
and internship concerns... if some percentage of students are what you are
looking for I don't see much chance of that this month... and anyway, I
think the roads by E51 will still be a problem this month...

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:29 AM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> 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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