Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 18 September 2009 00:04, Ben Scott wrote: What: Software Freedom Day Who: *YOU* Where: Pulaski Park, Manchester, NH Date: Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Time: Flexible, overall roughly 10 AM to 5 PM We need volunteers for Software Freedom Day this Saturday! Count me

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
There's no electricity (that I've been told of, city electric never got back to me). It would be nice just to be able to burn CDs on demand if we run out like last year, but we also have a lot more CDs than last year. My experience of these sorts of events is that nobody wants to look at a

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Scott
Meant to send the below to gnhlug-discuss... Jim's email address always confuses me. ;-) On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote:    Is there electricity?  If not, demos must be limited to

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 18 September 2009 09:41, Arc Riley wrote: My experience of these sorts of events is that nobody wants to look at a computer screen (you can barely see it against sunlight most of the time anyway). They're really just milling through and casually talking to us. I can believe

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: How does this sound? Using the CAD-CAM advantage, I can bring some C-size (22x17) complex mechanical and electronic drawing to put on an old poster board I have. Not as effective as a pretty woman, but at least they

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 18 September 2009 11:41, Arc Riley wrote: How about sign up for presenting QCad at an upcoming GNHLUG chapter meeting and put the time/date/loc of that presentation on the card? There appears to be a presentation booking shortfall on the website, the only upcoming meeting listed is

CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Scott
What: Software Freedom Day Who: *YOU* Where: Pulaski Park, Manchester, NH Date: Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Time: Flexible, overall roughly 10 AM to 5 PM We need volunteers for Software Freedom Day this Saturday! Most of all, we need people to show up and talk to other people. You

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-17 Thread Arc Riley
+1 :-) beaks, fox ears, etc.). Carnival-style attractions (popcorn or snow-cones, or simple games). Let's avoid food so we don't have a run-in with the health dept, and lets make absolutely clear that no money is exchanged for games/items/etc so we don't become a vendor :-) But yes! We're

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote: (( Psst - there are three bright lime green Software Freedom Day 2009 tshirts for the first three volunteers to request them. I'm just looking forward to inhaling the helium ;-) -- Ben