----- "Arthur McArthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But here is my complaint, I bought a service, a staff member should > answer a question when it's asked. Would it be a Noob question to ask > where the shitter is, since there are fire escape maps on the walls > that have "Bathroom" on them?
Ahh, I see part of the problem. Customer expectation was too high for the product offered. Any staff member that was there was paid only $25 for 4 hours minimum of work. Any work done beyond those 4 hours was free. The $25 was price of admission to the con in exchange for the work done. Your $25 was spent directly on food and drink in the con room that you could have gone and partook of. It went for whatever expenses the con had in paying for the rooms needed to put on the con. You might have had more given to you in the way of attention if this was put on in someone's basement, but then there probably would have been even less entertainment and even less content. As Nashville 2600 is a non profit with open membership, you are welcome to go join the club and find out just how your $25 was spent and if you really could have spent it better any other way. > I am just curious as to what everyone else did, did you go to the > talks? Did you just sit around and talk to the people you already > know. In previous years when I was able to attend, it is usually a mix. Visiting with friends is nice when some of them we only see 2-3 times a year. Not all of the presentations are interesting. So I don't sit in the presentation area for too long. Add to that that there are usually people who would like me to help out with linux problems. I have even spent time one year proofreading a manual for one of the other groups and their new project in the hotel room. Other times I have spent it getting drunk and watching other well known personalities argue the flaws in various unix designs. I have had some marginal fun weekends at Phreaknic before, and I have had some extremely large times at Phreaknic as well. I have videos I can not share from some fun times at Phreaknic. > I was looking for a nix/"hacker" community in Nashville to hang out > with and the response I seemed to get from everyone was, " The daytime > is when everyone is napping, the night time is when the party starts" Phreaknic isn't the community. Phreaknic is a big party put on by some of the local community. The people of the local unix/hacker community are here and in the 2600 group. Even then you will find that it has mellowed over the years as those of us that have been involved age and less new blood comes into the group. > Partying is cool, but how about some content before the party starts? <snip> > I see a lot of potential on Phreaknic, but with the response I am > getting now, it seems that most people that attend are happy with the > way it is. Most people who attend or organize the event are probably happy with the results from a down year. I am sure there are comparison of other years, and the relative merits of each years events. Being an open group if you want it to be better, jump in and help. Around January or February, you will see a surge in the idea generation and that will follow with really assigning tasks towards later summer. -- Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
