[Coco] Glenside's new website was:Good News

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Richard E. Crislip
<rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
(snip)
>
> Ahhhem... The announcement is on the Web site. That's what prompted me to make
> the hotel reservation last night. So I am at a loss of what  is being
> discussed here other than the proposed update to the site home page.
>

Please don't take this the wrong way, but the group of people who
would potentially attend the CoCoFest and the group of people who
check the Glenside page of their own accord (or are even aware that
the page exists) are not by any means equal.

There has been a resurgence of interest in the CoCo and "retro
computing" in general in the last couple years.  There is an active
and growing facebook group, we get new people popping into the
coco_chat channel on IRC regularly, and we've had several new folks
join us on this list recently too.

It would be a real shame if these folks don't even know that our
community has a great annual event.  Posting an announcement on an
obscure website simply isn't serving the community well.  Limiting
notification to people who already know the event exists (and think to
check on their own for details) is a good way to ensure the event will
not gain new attendees and will probably lose past attendees who would
have come but simply forgot or didn't hear about it until too late.

I am not one to complain without offering to help solve an issue.  Is
there some mechanism for volunteering to help?  Any official stance on
how or where the event can/should be publicized?  Some transparency in
the event planning would certainly be nice.. I realize it's a
"Glenside thing" but it's so important to the community that maybe
some sharing of information and responsibility would be appropriate.