Exploration: Ubuntu summary

[Martin Owens]

I agree, as a team we're technical geniuses, but as PR agents we're
slacked jawed yokels. We don't know enough people to contact, either
in the city press, tv news media, online advertising and educational
press.

I think we need a strong leader of PR, we should talk about this at
our next meeting, not only because we need to do more PR events but
because we also need to co-ordinate it all.

Things I would look at for the next Exploration: Ubuntu other than PR:

 * Getting the big TV in again, it was great last time and provided a
focal point (Mr Delacy?)
 * Having a solid demonstration on the TV, including having Aaron and
Theresa play DDR
 * Considering getting a second banner to go inside
 * Music should be managed to be more uplifting, the music this time
was a little more drab

Persona note:

 * Please keep hold of your ID badges, we'll be using them for all
public events :-)

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On 24/02/2008, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Well, it was nice to hang out with some other like-minded people and talk
> to Ubuntu users, but I think our first installfest did a better job of
> getting people in who were new to Ubuntu or wanted help setting it up.
> Perhaps it was the snow, but I remember our first one attracting a lot more
> new members of the Ubuntu community. So, yes, I think that we should try to
> focus more on marketing, and perhaps a little less on the technical details,
> because I think we did fine with that. We did a great job of setting up the
> place with wireless and wired network connections and power, but not many
> people actually ended up using it.