Alon Altman wrote:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Dotan wrote:
I think it makes a lot of sense since the target audiance of the
different clubs is different.
I strongly disagree. The series in all clubs is aimed at the general
population who are advanced computer users (by "advanced" I mean know
how to
install and manage a home Windows computer). Students are of course a
subset
We don't have prerequisites from the participants and students are much
above the targeted audiance.
of this population, but certainly not the primary target. We tried
various
forms of advertising. In Haifux we had several high school students,
adults,
and also some university students.
One major effort for pushing the series was in a Sci-Fi convention. We
urged the community to invite their family and friends.
The only club I know of that decided to ignore the rest of the activity
and publicize only its own lectures was JLC, and that's a shame.
Instead of
assuming your target audience is different, you could have tried to
cooperate.
Apparently my "assumption" was true - you target advanced users, we don't.
Now if you'll excuse me I'll go and be ashamed of trying to reach the
audiance I was looking for without frightening them with topics like
"development tools" as integrated part of the series (you may not the
JLC has an IDE lecture at the end of the series which specificaly goes
for CS- students and thus captures the last place).
Dotan
