[NH LoCo] SFD'09 Report

Arc Riley arcriley at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 01:24:42 BST 2009


It was a warm but very windy day on the corner of Bridge and Park today.

We setup the tent, some tables, lots of carnival looking decorations,
balloons.. our largest difficulty was the wind, everything had to be heavily
anchored down.  Several cases the pavilion tent lifted off the ground (it's
quite heavy)

We got a few honks from cars, including a Geek Squad van with "thumbs up"
and cheering.

I'd say we handed out between 40 and 50 CDs to individuals.  We had some
extremely notable people show up though;

   - a local teacher who had heard of Ubuntu and was very interested in it
   - a local librarian that took about 50 CDs to distribute at the library
   and talked about Ubuntu on the kiosks
   - a parent who attended SFD'07 and his daughter was wearing her SFD'07
   shirt to celebrate the day
   - roughly 6 people who were already using Ubuntu and just randomly walked
   by, not hearing about the SFD event before, and got to pick our brains about
   what's in store for 9.10, when the next LTS is coming out, how to upgrade
   from 8.04, etc.

Just as important, it gave a few newer LoCo members a chance to meet others
of the group in person, as well as members of GNHLUG who were handing out
flyers and really chatting people up as well.  We discussed having the next
meeting at the library (finally - it was discussed months ago) to give more
newer members a chance to meet.

We didn't have as many volunteers or visitors as last year, but it was still
a very productive day.  I'm going to guess that we have another 75 9.04 CDs
to distribute in the next few weeks, so I'm thinking of various activities
we can do to facilitate that.

Does anyone have thoughts on ways we can get these CDs out there, especially
to areas of the public we wouldn't normally hit?
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