[Coco] CoCoFest - No promotion?

[Frank Pittel]

Randy,

Thank you for helping to get the word about the fest out! I know that the old 8bit
computers are getting popular again and I find it hard to believe there isn't "untapped"
interest in the Coco!!

Frank


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:27:07PM -0400, Randall Kindig wrote:
> I hope I was able to help in some small way with that by having an episode
> of the Floppy Days Podcast about the upcoming Fest.  That episode got over
> 800 downloads, so the word got out to at least that many people, who are
> likely all vintage computing enthusiasts.
> 
> I also mentioned it on the Antic Podcast.
> 
> Randy
> host Floppy Days Podcast
> co-host Antic Podcast
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>wrote:
> 
> > On 25/04/2014 6:15 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> >
> >> Nick,
> >>
> >> The fest has been advertised on the GCCC webpage for a while now. I know
> >> it's been talked about here and
> >> on the coco IRC. I'm not sure but unless I'm mistaken it's alre been
> >> discussed in the coco related facebook
> >> pages.
> >>
> >> I hope this isn't considered the hijacking of this thread but I am
> >> seriously interested in how the fest could
> >> be better promoted to both coco users but also to people that have an
> >> interest in the coco but doesn't know
> >> about the GCCC or other coco related resources. If anyone has any serious
> >> ideas they will be given full consideration.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I must admit, I don't look at the FaceBook page.
> >
> > This CoCoList is more-or-less the "nerve centre" of CoCo communications
> > for a larger part of the global CoCo community.
> >
> > I just haven't heard much "buzz" about it here and so forgot about it.
> >
> > Maybe more frequent e-mails on this list of what is planned at the fest?
> > It's not enough to simply mention it once and then tick that off as done.
> > With the number of messages that appear on this list, it's easy to miss a
> > message or forget about it over time (as I did).
> >
> > Leading up to the fest, it needs to be repeated and an attempt to create
> > some chatter about it. This chatter will lead to finding more people who
> > may pitch in to offer to do a talk, bring some items of interest to the
> > fest and most importantly, promote the fest to gain more attendees.
> >
> > I remember when I was organising PennFest 2000, I began organising and
> > promoting the fest 9 months prior to the actual event. I periodically
> > maintained the website and kept it up to date with the planning of events
> > and even provided a growing list of people who planned to attend so that
> > others contemplating attending could see who else was going. All this from
> > the other side of the planet (I'm in Australia and flew to the US).
> >
> > Via the internet, I made contact with people, arranging for special
> > guests, talks, demos and live IRC/web cam.
> >
> > My complete Pennfest 2000 report web page has been up for years and
> > available for anyone to glean ideas.
> >
> > http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/ProjectArchive/pennfest2000.html
> >
> > Nick
> >
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