[Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

There are several food vendors just north of the Varied Industries Building, along the south side of the Grand Concourse.  VIB is now air conditioned inside, so on warm or rainy days there is quite a crowd there, seeking relief from the elements.  The association my church belongs to has a booth in the VIB.  You will have to pay for fair admission and parking as well as the booth space.  A booth is 10' X 10'.  Our church rents 4 adjacent booths, and some have many more.  I didn't see the bill, but I think I heard that it was $2000 for each 10' square.  The fair requires that the booth be manned continually while the VIB is open, 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.  That means there should be 2 or more people in the booth, so 1 of them can have the opportunity to take a short break if needed.  I don't know if getting a DSL / cable / ??? connection in the VIB is possible.  They'd probably frown at poking a hole in the roof to put up a satellite dish.  There were a couple of empty booths at the fair in 2009.  I don't remember any near the north side.  With 100K people attending daily and say 1/3 of them go through the VIB, if only 1 out of 1000 people in the VIB stop at your booth that would be 33 people a day, and we get far more than 1 out of 1000 people to stop at our booth and talk to us.

Murray McKee 
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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matt Stanton
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:01 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] InstallFest 2010?

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> I have had luck in the past getting larger quantities of Ubuntu CDs if
>>> I have a reasonable amount of notice (a couple weeks).
>>>       
>> These would have pretty labels too, right?
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, they're the nice ones. Pressed disks with a sleeve and sometimes
> even some laptop or window stickers. What you'd get from shipit or the
> Ubuntu shop.
>
>
>   
What if we had a way to provide 'free wifi' to people near a collection 
of food vendors?  Surely there are a bunch of hopelessly connected 
parents who are only there because their kids dragged them along...  
Maybe if this was offered, we would get a mention on a radio ad or 
something:  "Free wifi is being provided by the Central Iowa Linux Users 
Group.  Stop by their booth to find out how to become a part of the free 
software community".  People love free stuff.
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