[penguicon-general] where was MDLUG?

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 12:49 pm, Dan DeSloover wrote:
 > Which brings up a second good point. I was already aware that MUG was 
> covered by Aaron, the vast majority of MDLUG was already sold on 
> Penguicon, and GLLUG for obvious reasons needed no wrangling. I work 
> closely with MonroeLUG and well everyone of semi-active membership there 
> was going (all three of us and one of those could be considered more of 
> a MDLUG person.

I really need to do a "marketing for geeks" panel next year, don't I?

1) Just because they know you and like you doesn't mean you don't have to 
remind them that you exist, especially if something has a specific time.

2) The "rule of seven" is that people are so good at filtering out extraneous 
noise that until they've encountered a mention of your thing seven times they 
won't remember having seen it, let alone make any decision about it.  This is 
true even for things they'd really like; they'll put off thinking about it or 
not necessarily consider it real/credible.

So assuming "they already know" is counterproductive.

> GTLUG, KLUG and GRLUG for one reason or another either completely ignore 
> or are hostile towards Penguicon (maybe it was the spamming campaign, 
> oops?)

There was a spamming campaign?

Who do I kneecap?

(Annoying people into hating you is just as counterproductive as letting them 
forget you exist.)

> and TALUG has also ignored Penguicon, despite numerous attempts  
> to get various people involved with the LUG on board.

Go to one of the meetings and make liquid nitrogen ice cream.  Consider it a 
convention room party that's not taking place at a convention.

(The ability to get ~30 liter quantities from a local university would be 
really nice for this sort of thing, by the way...)

Rob