Meeting

[Ralph deGennaro]

Hi everyone,

We talked a bit about the PI-Con and few other rough thoughts/ideas.  Thanks
for Martin & Mike for answering my millions of questions.  Maybe in the
future we could take notes at the meeting and put them up on the wiki.

One thing we did talk a bit about was how we might relate to the small "Mom
& Pop" computer shops that are still out in the world.  The idea came from
one that I talked with saying that he dealt with (among other things) moving
programs/data to new computers for people.  The obvious idea is that its
easier with Ubuntu, but I also thought of the old computers being donated to
SETC.

Utlimately, this might give us an "in" to either talk/work with owners/staff
on some salesmanship of Ubuntu and/or training.  As well as perhaps
possibility to advertise the install-fest.

Anyways, this kind of gives four things to do.  Please tell if I'm missing
stuff; which is more then likely.

   1. Talk to Mel (that's his name right?).
   2. Find "mom & pop" places in the greater Boston area.
   3. Create a package/message for them.
   4. Go out and talk to them.  :-)

So, what can anyone reading this do to help (if they want)?   For #1, M & M,
I didn't think about this until the way home.  If we're talking in SETC's
name, we should check with him.  Can we do that tomorrow?  Sorry for not
emailing until now.

For #2, the plan is to get a big list going, and divide & conquer.  Map it
out to do as much as we can as easily as we can.  So if anyone knows one,
please let me know; include an address or phone is possible.  Also, if
anyone wants to put on a marketing/salesman hat, and wants to go around to
some, let me know.

For #3, one thing corporate USA has taught me is a consistent
image/message.  If anyone has source files for posters and/pamphlets, let me
know.  Also (equally important), if anyone has verbaige for press releases,
presentations and/or speeches, can they send them to me?  We can compile a
package for everyone to review before going out to the "mom & pop's".

And like I hinted at above, please pick apart the plan.  With the motivation
to make it better I hope. :-)

Thanks for reading everyone,
Best,
Rio


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, we talked about various things
>
> 2008/9/1 Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>:
> > Sorry i missed the meeting-- i've been away for the past week. How did it
> > go?
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Theresa Hepburn <
> theresa.hepburn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> And if you're hungry you can come visit the take out window at legal
> >> seafood's after!! :-D
> >>
> >> Martin Owens wrote:
> >> > Don't forget we have a meeting tonight at the MIT Media Lab, 7pm until
> >> > 9ish.
> >> >
> >> > Please attend if you have anything you'd like to table.
> >> >
> >> > Regards, Martin Owens
> >> >
> >> >
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