On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:46:42PM -0700, Matthew J. Probst wrote:
> To interject some suggestions in this thread: Recruiting new members
> requires a significant amount of work on the club officers part. You
> don't want to be wasting your time with ineffective tactics so here are
> a few suggestions:
>
> * The most important recruiting time is in september when most
> freshmen start their year. Make the the club booth is well
> staffed at that time.
> * Club booths should not only include give-away cds and creatively
> designed flyers, but also use stand-out, in-your-face, crazy
> attention getting techniques. I remember one year where I put on
> some bell bottoms an afro-wig and we played disco music from a
> booth boom box. Our theme was: "Unix: One of the best things to
> come out of the 70s". I'd recommend hourly or daily drawings in
> exchange for people's email addresses. T-shirts would be a good
> drawing give-away.
> * Email Unix OS and software vendors every so often such as
> O'Reilly, Redhat, IBM, Suse, Sun, HP, Oracle, etc as well as local
> software companies: Novell, Symantec, Omniture, etc, asking them
> if they'd like to "sponsor" a club event by sending us some
> t-shirts, hats, pizza, etc. Use those as binary-grab-bag
> give-aways, along side computer related junk you can find at DI or
> BYU surplus sales for really cheap. Advertise "FREE" in HUGE
> letters at the top of fliers (followed by "give-aways",etc).
> Students love the word "Free".
> * Have crazy contests... For example, In december 1997, we had a
> meeting to celembrate the birthday of the transistor. We had a
> commercial copy of some Unix distro to give out... so we told
> people to dress up like a transistor.. the best costume would win
> the copy of the Unix distro.. Believe it or not, we had 5-7
> people dress up... one with a huge spray painted cardboard box...
> he one. I got a sheet cake from some place with "Happy birthday
> Transistor!" on it.
> ....
>From the founder of UUG himself. Mr MJP. Words of wisdom!
Here are some fond memories I have from the early days of UUG. Notice
how many of them correspond to the ideas mentioned above.
1. Halloween party with network games.
- Doom and Quake.
2. Sponsored club events.
- Binary grab bag was the greatest. It didn't matter if you were
just getting junk.
- The pizza worked on me too.
3. Wearing a nerdy hat.
- Don't ask me how or why, but Matt talked me (and others) into
walking around campus wearing an extremely nerdy hat.
Anyway, just a few fond memories from the early days of UUG.
Phillip
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