One more thought on the "day" business. If those who are demo-ing on
"the" day would post to a site in depth stuff about their demo, that
allows viewers the opportunity to visit, in advance, the site, then,
during the demo ask intelligent questions, a stimulating way to hold
a webcast, as vs a "one to many" presentation where it can get
awfully, awfully tedius.
At 5:09 AM -0500 07/20/99, Christopher Tysen Henriksen wrote:
> > Hello Christopher,
> >
> > I agree with you and remembered to have taken position some time ago about
> > this type of opinion.
> > [ ... story of Holiday being scattered on several days and dramatically
> > losing attendance .... ]
> > Now it is changing (towards more synchronicity), but we have spent years
> > without efficiently building the image of a common feast. In fact I do not
> > know very well the schedule because when a city is concerned, the other
> > ones are out of the movement...and I am living in the country, far away of
> > the cities ;-)
> >
> > As Christopher stated it, ONE day is far more attractive for the news than
> > something more fuzzy. If we place the psychological impact at the first
> > place, we must consider this argument.
>
>I have been delinquent in reading my LDD mail and have begun to catch up . I
>do truly hope that we can reverse this problem as quickly as possible . With
>several Months to plan things out there should be no sound reason for groups
>not to be able to adjust a little bit .
> At the very least we could try to organizer which groups will be
>demonstrating on the 12th and set that as the date that we give to the local
>press . Listing only those groups that Demo on that one day would allow us to
>announce it as The Day that we have said groups participating . I do not want
>to splinter the Demo Day idea but we will lose so much of the wind in our
>sails with a 'smeared out' Demo Day that it might be adcisable to agree on a
>single "official" day and allow groups that simply cannot participate on that
>day to hold their own functions later .
>Your Squire
>Squireson
>
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