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Proposed: A Purpose for GNHLUG

2007-10-04 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
In the spirit of maddog's help for Linus way back when, perhaps the purpose of the gnhlug charitable corporation should be to financially sponsor technical speakers thereby advancing the knowledge of Linux enthusiasts in New Hampshire. The financial assistance may be as little as

MerriLUG Thr 18 Oct will be Charlie Farinella on vinyl to digital

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
I'm pleased to report that Charlie Farinella has agreed to repeat his presentation on transferring audio records from vinyl LP to digital media for the Thr 18 Oct meeting of MerriLUG/Nashua. I'll update the website. Jim, you're still handling the mailing list announcements, right?

Re: MerriLUG Thr 18 Oct will be Charlie Farinella on vinyl to digital

2007-10-04 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Thursday 04 October 2007 09:30, Ben Scott wrote: I'm pleased to report that Charlie Farinella has agreed to repeat his presentation on transferring audio records from vinyl LP to digital media for the Thr 18 Oct meeting of MerriLUG/Nashua. I'll update the website. Jim, you're still

Re: MerriLUG Thr 18 Oct will be Charlie Farinella on vinyl to digital

2007-10-04 Thread Heather Brodeur
Ben Scott wrote: I'm pleased to report that Charlie Farinella has agreed to repeat his presentation on transferring audio records from vinyl LP to digital media for the Thr 18 Oct meeting of MerriLUG/Nashua. I'll update the website. Ben, thank you so much for helping me with this, I

Re: Attendance: Measuring progress

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Roche
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: How will success be judged after a new initiative is taken to increase attendance at LUG meetings? Success cannot be accurately judged without a dependable record of past attendance. Fortunately, Ted Roche has been recording attendance figures for some time

Re: Could advertising backfire?

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Roche
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: What if you get a significant number of new people to come to a meeting, but they find the presentation misses their interest target? How many times will they respond to a gnhLUG advert again? Likely none, if they are rational. Though you never know. Some people

Re: Attendance: Measuring progress

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/4/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're also correct that the sampling size is very small and the number of dimensions of analysis relatively large. I think the above is a key point. I believe there are far too many variables compared to our sample size to achieve deep insight

Re: Could advertising backfire?

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/29/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a strong drive to just rush out and advertise while skipping the work of identifying your target population ... Perhaps a better term would be publicizing. More specifically, there are two ways I can think of to increase