Exploration: Ubuntu summary

[Cam Cope]

Haha, my music collection is not something to be put on random. If I had
known that had happened, I would have changed it. I've got everything from
Daft Punk to AC/DC to Korn to Beck. I didn't think of making a playlist
though, I figured people would put on stuff that they liked. So yeah next
time I'll make a playlist. Cake, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arctic Monkeys,
Gorillaz, The Bravery.... I'll make something good for next time ;-).

I think we need to find places to leave fliers. And hand more out. We had
more advertising last time. Plus, the snow definitely didn't help. For
Boston, we should get a much larger turnout. Some well placed advertising
would be good. Maybe a mention in the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter? Is there an
Ubuntu calendar?

-Cam

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Well, Cam's laptop was out and set on random, so perhaps it's just his
> taste in music :)
> Next time perhaps we could ask him to set up a playlist of happy,
> uplifting music. Actually, I don't think I helped things by turning off
> random and turning on Pink Floyd halfway through the event, so sorry 'bout
> that... :P
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:54 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
>
> I agree, as a team we're technical geniuses, but as PR agents we'reslacked jawed yokels. We don't know enough people to contact, eitherin the city press, tv news media, online advertising and educationalpress.
> I think we need a strong leader of PR, we should talk about this atour next meeting, not only because we need to do more PR events butbecause 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 afocal point (Mr Delacy?) * Having a solid demonstration on the TV, including having Aaron andTheresa play DDR * Considering getting a second banner to go inside * Music should be managed to be more uplifting, the music this timewas a little more drab
> Persona note:
>  * Please keep hold of your ID badges, we'll be using them for allpublic 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.
>
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