Op woensdag 01-11-2006 om 16:31 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Jono Bacon: > > Why would we want to set one worldwide date for such an event? > > As ever, I am always open to ideas, but I think having a single day has > more splash. Its a single day when LoCo teams around the world are doing > things - thats got good press impact, and a single point of focus for > getting people involved.
I think that a large part of the (traditional) press probably isn't really interested in a number of relatively small events all over the world like this, unless the (local or global) event is also somehow relevant to their local readers/listeners/spectators for some other reason[*]. And LoCoTeams need local press coverage more than a news item on some geeky tech news website, especially when you want to recruit new users and volunteers outside those geek communities (who already know Ubuntu by now). [*] If Microsoft releases Vista on the same day it might be considered "a stunt" on our part and then we would get some press attention, because they like controversial topics, but I don't want to wait until 2010 before having a LoCoTeam gathering... ;-) -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
