On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:39:47AM -0700, Edward Craig wrote:
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> On the whole, I had a Good Fair. I want to do this again, but
>better, of course. The feedback I got was uniformly positive. I'm going
>to kick off the critique with a couple of notes from my perspective. I'd
>like to hear from the rest of you, even those who didn't come out to play.
>We did good, we can do better.
I began to wonder if next year we might rename it to the "I Need My Email
Dammit Booth"...
> No more big boxes to spill CD's across main routes (met a nice
>woman who succumbed to my whining plea to use her empty cart to get that
>box the last hundred yards to the Doors of Expression) and while we did
>bring more stuff than we gave out (lots more) that's much better than not
>enough. While we might be able to commandeer carts in the future, it's a
>better idea to break the loot up into much smaller packages, and spread
>them among more people to get the corporate booty to (and from) the fair.
This was an issue for us at efn also. I'd like to see if we can't prepare
some sort of "road show cart" for future events.
The "Tux" penguins were a hit; at one point an eleven-year old girl came up
to the booth and said "oh, a linux penguin! Can i have one?"
I was happy to see that the people who came up to the booth were able to find
their way around GNOME and KDE without too much trouble.
--
Better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. And if he can't
be bothered to learn to fish and starves to death, that's a good enough
outcome for me.
-Steve VanDevender, 1 May 2000
