[ILUG] fun at LinuxWorld

[John P . Looney]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:58:50AM -0000, Noel Carrol mentioned:
> How 'bout getting a few radio ads and getting much earlier coverage of the
> upcoming event in Computer Scope.  The lot here didn't hear about the event
> until it was mentioned by some of us about two weeks ago.   Also, if there
> is a technical day coming up in Spring, then again let people know early on
> through the media so that you can get the word out and get a much better
> attendance.  Also, one slight criticism.  The ILUG site this year didn't
> feature a direct link to the LinuxWorld site until quite late on, even
> though the site was up and running.  Also, the site should have been
> LinuxWorld.ie instead of techcentral.ie/linuxworld IMHO.   Because I hadn't
> read computerscope and there wasn't a link from ILUG, I had to resort to
> Googling.  Thats too much work for the average suit in my experience.

 I think the linux.ie link was there about four days after the techcentral
site went up. Big problem being that we started organising it about six
weeks before the real event, and the speakers weren't confirmed till about
three weeks before the event (and we didn't want to put up a site without
confirming speakers). Doing a conference of that size at such notice, was
a really, really silly thing to do :)

 What are the best media for getting to people ? I'd not have thought of
radio (there were ads ever day for ten days in the national papers, and in
compuscope). 

Kate

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