Install fest

[Alan Dayley]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 14:15, der.hans wrote:
> Am 06. Jun, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Gambill so:
> > Does anyone have any notes (pert charts, contacts, volunteer lists,
> > committee member lists, committee chair person lists, etc.) on past
> > Install Fests.
> >
> > What are the requirements, what are the timeframes, what are the
> > deliverables, Who are willing to help, who is willing to coordinate wha=
t?
>
> Advertising needs to start at least 6 weeks out. That means the press
> release needs to be ready 6 weeks prior.
>
> Location, time and date have to be firm before the press release can be
> ready.

Sponsorship for give-aways and local business contacts need at the very lea=
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that 6 weeks too.  8 weeks or more lead time would be better, especially wh=
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trying for sponsors that are not directly involved with Linux, like compute=
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stores, restaurants (that would be cool), book stores and so on.  The=20
business decision makers need time to make the decisions.

Linux distro companies can usually get stuff to us in the 6 week time frame.

Alan