At 07:03 PM 1/10/02 -0500, William Bilancio wrote: > Put fliers up at grocery stores and libraries and at computer type stores.
Those are good starters. One problem I have found with computer type stores is that they don't have customer visible bulletin boards. (Afraid of competitors posting? Liabilities for con artists?) I had posted flyers for the PPCUG group at the Borders books store in Nassau Center. Their corkboard, however, was moved form the front lobby to the area by the restrooms. The computer stores would be excellent places to have HamLUG info. Now it's a matter of finding a way. One way would be to send flyers to the stores' managers with a cover letter explaining how having a Linux resource for their customers who buy the boxed distros is good for their business. Satisfied customers who might not buy the Widows merchandise but who might buy printers, monitors, hard drives, Palm Pilots, etc. if they knew how to better use the hardware with the Linux PCs. (Of course, don't mention that the satisfied Linux users might be less likely to buy all those Windows products. <g> But can mention that Linux does have some ways, like Win4Lin, of running the more exemplary Windows platform products like PhotoShop and DreamWeaver. Another place for publicizing HamLUG amy be those colleges and universities without their own LUGs. Anybody going to Mercer County Community College? That is a good venue.
