<p dir="ltr">I did poorly will do better next time.</p>
<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm asking for feedback about the recent Installfest.<br>
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1) What did we do well?<br>
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2) What did we do poorly?<br>
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3) What made you want to volunteer?<br>
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4) If you DID sign up for an install, why didn't you show up?<br>
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5) If you DID NOT sign up for an install and would have liked to - why<br>
not? Time, location, location hidden to non-members, too much<br>
"registration data" demanded? Why?<br>
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Please be honest. That's the only way we can make these things better<br>
next time.<br>
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Please reply off-list, if you prefer. On-list could get the ball<br>
rolling, however.<br>
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For example, here's my list looking from the inside.<br>
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* As usual, volunteer support was great! Overwhelming. Wish we would<br>
have had more installs.<br>
* The swag this year was better than at any time over the last 5 yrs -<br>
thanks to Chuck Payne! We had t-shirts, DVDs, stickers, pens available.<br>
* Mark did some great advertising, but if he had more lead-time, I'm<br>
certain more people would have gotten the message. Community newspapers<br>
probably need more than 10 days notice about an event.<br>
* The networking was unknown when we arrived due to my failure to get<br>
with the owner. If we knew a wired connection would be allowed, the core<br>
group could have concentrated on non-wifi-bridge stuff. I spent about 5<br>
hours just on that alone.<br>
* Perhaps a bfast for the core volunteers would get us close to the<br>
location, earlier? I was a little late and live 10 min away with ZERO<br>
traffic.<br>
* A few core volunteer organizational meetings 1, 2 months prior would<br>
have helped. The google-docs spreadsheet didn't work well, for some<br>
reason I do not understand.<br>
* My web server with information and ISOs wasn't working due to a<br>
keyboard issue. It didn't seem to be important on the day, but has been<br>
very important at prior installfests to make tools and ISOs available.<br>
* No Information / Presentats were displayed - a few beginner-level<br>
presentations beginning after the first installations completed would be<br>
good. There was a TV which could have been used - always bring an HDMI<br>
cable to these things. Always. Same for PS2-to-USB adapter.<br>
* No "after party" - after a long day, do we want to share a meal?<br>
* Next year, we'll have separate signup events for volunteers AND<br>
installees.<br>
* I missed the donuts and normal coffee, but the sandwich and smoothie<br>
was tasty.<br>
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It should be understood that we didn't have a viable location until 2<br>
weeks before the installfest. 3 other locations fell through.<br>
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My backup plan was to use Harry's Pizza for installations every Sunday<br>
meeting in Sept and limit it to 2-4 people per week.<br>
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BTW - my 'n' key is still flaky - hard and fast rule needed to get that key.<br>
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On Oct 3rd, there is a MakerFair - do we want to support that in any<br>
way? It is just a week away!<br>
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