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

[John Simpson]

On 2008-03-04, at 0327, Gavin Baker wrote:
> John Simpson wrote:
> [...]
> | although i also have to ask, how hard is it to add "first saturday  
> of
> | every month" to whatever calendar you're using- even if it's a paper
> | calendar hanging on the wall?
>
> It's not -- and now that I know there's an installfest each month, I
> will. But this doesn't sound like a growth strategy to me.
>
> I (mostly) do community outreach for a living. Principle 0 is: Make it
> as easy as possible for people to find out about you and your
> activities. Posting announcements on a separate list, with no
> information in the announcement itself, violates that principle.

okay... i didn't realize that the messages on the announcement list  
were that un-informative. i'm not subscribed and never have been, so i  
haven't seen them.

i agree, the messages that it sends SHOULD contain the date, time,  
location, directions, maybe even google maps links like these:


for devry, where the "third thursday 7pm" meetings are: (i had never  
noticed, the pattern of the bricks in front of the main entrance form  
an arrow pointing into the door)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.492381,-81.427467&spn=0.001169,0.002299&t=h&z=19


and for the church where the "first saturday" installfests are: (we  
meet in the front end of the building farthest north of the three)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.605397,-81.326714&spn=0.000584,0.001149&t=h&z=20


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