Actually, I wasn't suggesting anything for financial longevity. Simply a couple of things I know of that are coming up that may interest people in the group and may help get some group activity or interest up.
The exposure I mentioned was also more on the geek participant side of the house than on the people with moneys side. So, yeah, my post wasn't intended as competition for any other suggestions on this thread, just additional infos for interested parties. I know we have some gamers here. Figure I should pop up and participate at least once a year! :p -dub On Sep 30, 7:19 pm, 0x0000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- dub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a side note (on the CHAOS side of the house): > > > The Columbus JayCees are organizing a gaming tourney for (i think) > > early next year. I'll have to check on the date. > > They (we) wanted to know if CHAOS was interested in lending a hand. > > Possibly a good place to start back up and get some interest out > > there? > > I think "The Campus Nerds" from CSU may be involved as well. At least > > on the planning side. > > There would probably be some good exchange of interest (manpower/ > > nerdpower/geekpower) between Campus Nerds and CHAOS/CFn. > > > As far as publicity: > > > PTAP and some others are sponsoring/organizing a Halo 3 tourney at > > the > > old Parisians in the mall on Nov. 10. > > I think this would be at least a good place to plaster for CHAOS and > > CFn promotion. > > Even if its just people participating in the tournament and poppin > > caps (do the kids still say that?) with CFn shirts on. > > > Lemmie know if there are any bites on any of this. Post. E-mail. Slap > > me in the face when you see me on the street. > > > -dub > > I'm curious about why a gaming tourney might be considered a fiscally > viable project for CHAOS/CFn and the idea of providing network access > to vendors at an art show is not? Technically, the problems are almost > identical, the amounts of money changing hands at the art show promise > to be much larger, and the people that would see the t-shirts at the > art show are (imo) much more likely to have disposable income to put > into IT and network -related projects than college students who are > trying to get rich winning a game tourney... ? Back when I was in > school, the geeks were all broke - of course, that might have changed > over the last 30 years...? > > Very simply, if you are trying to get and stay financially viable, it > would behoove you (us) to go where the money is, and the AotR event is > the highest grossing art show in the south east ....?? > > 0x0000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
