IDEA!

[Anthony Hook]

Rick,

This is an excellent idea, I'm going to also copy the Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo
mailing list as well.

All, please see below.  Does this sound like a thing people would want to
get involved in?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Rick Schwai <rick.schwai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anthony,
>
> I was in Madison at the West Town Mall and stumbled on the Apple Store.
> It was interesting to see how many excited people were in the store looking
> at product, getting individual help, and listening to presentations.  Thats
> when I had an IDEA!  Why don't we hold an Ubuntu Fair that includes group
> presentations, individual help, and workshops?  I was thinking that we
> would need about 6-7 LOCO experts to help run the concurrent sessions.
>
> I have also been doing some simple market research.  For my classes, I
> have had 5 people in Minocqua, population 3,000, and 13 people in
> Rhinelander, population, 7,500.   So I was thinking about holding an ubuntu
> Fair in Wausau, population 39,000.  If my math holds, we should have close
> to 50 people.
>
> From a timing perspective, I was thinking of sometime in early to mid
> January.  That would be a perfect time to get people out of the house and
> hopefully to an ubuntu Fair.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Rick
>



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- Anthony Hook
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