[ale] 2015 InstallFest Dump

[Jim Kinney]

I will not be at the maker fair this year. Karate belt test that day
followed by physically required napping/recovery time.
On Sep 24, 2015 10:44 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

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