[Leaplist] Fwd: Re: Can kids volunteer for install fest on Saturday?

[Phil Barnett]

On Friday 29 February 2008 08:35:28 pm you wrote:

> We know that?
>
> I hope you'll take this as constructive criticism rather than
> nitpicking, but I don't recall having seen a single email to the list
> about it. Maybe it's on the Web site, or it's regularly-scheduled, but I
> can't see the harm in posting an announcement to the list before each
> event. That announcement should contain the basic information about the
> event (when, where, etc.), which this email didn't.
>
> I have met several people over the past few months who mentioned they
> use Linux. I ask if they've ever been to one of the LUGs in the area,
> and they all say no. For that to change will take better communication,
> so more people know that the group exists and what it's doing.
>
> If you want help with that or ideas, feel free to email me off-list.

We have a web site that announces the dates of the meetings and installfests 
at the top of the page and a mailing list that contains only emails from an 
automated system that can warn you in advance of any meeting or installfest.

http://www.leap-cf.org

http://leap-cf.org/mailinglist.php3

And, most specifically, http://leap-cf.org/mailinglist.php3?list=announce

I depend on these things to tell me what day of the week it is. I would forget 
meetings if I were not a member. I suggest that anyone who wants fair warning 
of the meetings and installfests join this mailing list. It's a gentle 
reminder that doesn't have any other traffic.

Do you think we need more? If so, what would you suggest in addition to that?

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