IDEA!

[Ian Weisser]

Yeah.
I'll do it.
(There, a commitment)

-Ian


On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 10:54 -0500, Anthony Hook wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Anthony Hook
>