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Grex > Coop11 > #187: Top of the Park: Promoting Grex on July 9th |  |
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tsty
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response 95 of 124:
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Jul 14 13:31 UTC 2000 |
out of a thousand??????
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krj
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response 96 of 124:
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Jul 14 14:50 UTC 2000 |
I'm holding perhaps another 150-200 magnets.
I have some distribution obligations to cover with that stock --
making sure all those who gave money to the project get some,
and also sending some to some active users who have asked nicely.
There's no way I will get that completed before Art Fair.
I'm in no hurry to move out the rest of the magnets. Unless
some other people are feeling extra-generous, there won't be
more of them. Since we don't have a presence
in a booth at art fair, I guess I feel like giving the magnets out
there would be sort of like throwing them up in the air in a
crowd of 100,000. My inclination would be to hoard the remaining
stock for some future Grex-ish event.
(It would be nice to do a non-profit booth at Art Fair like M-net
used to do. However, it is a major volunteer commitment
to build, transport, assemble and disassemble the booth;
and to keep it staffed through the three work days of the fair.
I'm not clear that we have the resources to do this.)
If we could get flyers at art fair that would be great;
flyers are cheap and we can get more easily.
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jep
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response 97 of 124:
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Jul 14 18:30 UTC 2000 |
A few of us built the M-Net Art Fair booth in a couple of hours. M-Net
isn't using it any more; it may still be around somewhere, and if it is,
I'd be shocked if Arbornet wouldn't let Grex borrow it. It's no good
for this year, obviously; you have to reserve Art Fair space months in
advance. There's plenty of time for next year, probably.
Arbornet took in a lot of money from selling manuals and "Internet
accounts" in the early days when Internet access was expensive and rare
and new.
We also had a terminal connected to M-Net for several years. This was
kind of interesting to a few people; they'd come down and log in and
hang around in party. I don't think we gained any new users from this,
because the ones who logged in from the Art Fair booth were almost
always existing users. We didn't benefit from publicity, there were
dozens of non-profits with brochures, and people just plain didn't want
them. They got scattered all over the area, and were a nuisance.
What they wanted was to buy something. Anything. People who'd never
heard of M-Net wanted to buy t-shirts, sweatshirts, any kind of
souvenir, and in a few cases, the terminal. We could have sold the
users who were hanging around, as slaves. (I wish I'd thought of
this 5 years ago.) Sell cans of pop, bottled water, coffee, doughnuts,
the Grex stock of t-shirts and sweatshirts, those magnets, tours of the
Pumpkin, autographs from luminaries like mdw and katie. Print out some
ASCII pictures, frame them, and sell them as art (you could do worse),
or glue together computer components and sell them as "cyber-sculpture".
But don't run a booth if you're not selling something. People get
annoyed and stomp off and look for the next booth.
I don't think anyone really wanted Internet connectivity through M-Net,
they just wanted to spend their money. We had something cheap they
could buy.
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gypsi
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response 98 of 124:
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Jul 14 18:41 UTC 2000 |
Heh...that sums up Art Fair *perfectly*. =)
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gelinas
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response 99 of 124:
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Jul 14 19:50 UTC 2000 |
As of last night, Washtenaw Non-profits still had two booths available. I
was going to register for one of them today, but the gang decided they didn't
have enough volunteers to staff the thing. John would probably be quite happy
to get a few more groups in.
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krj
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response 100 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:08 UTC 2000 |
Heh, perhaps this is what we should do with the remaining Grex Store
slow moving T-shirts and mugs. :)
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jiffer
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response 101 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:37 UTC 2000 |
Well, i plan to post what is available still with our Grex Shop this weekend.
So... get our your wallets kids, the Grex Store is opening!
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danr
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response 102 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:38 UTC 2000 |
No need to hang on to any magnets for me, Ken. I got a couple of them at TOP.
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aruba
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response 103 of 124:
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Jul 14 21:14 UTC 2000 |
Mee too.
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tpryan
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response 104 of 124:
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Jul 15 13:27 UTC 2000 |
Humm....old motherboard on a stick.
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janc
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response 105 of 124:
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Jul 15 19:34 UTC 2000 |
Obviously Grex and M-Net should have a joint booth. Between the two we could
probably find enough people to staff it.
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jp2
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response 106 of 124:
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Jul 15 20:13 UTC 2000 |
This response has been erased.
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cmcgee
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response 107 of 124:
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Jul 15 20:46 UTC 2000 |
Hold a couple magnets for me please, Ken.
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eeyore
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response 108 of 124:
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Jul 15 22:47 UTC 2000 |
If I could get my hands on a couple of magnets, that would be really
wonderful. I'll also understand if I'm down at the bottom of the list. :)
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tpryan
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response 109 of 124:
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Jul 16 02:12 UTC 2000 |
I think I know what M-net would put on a stick!
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twinkie
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response 110 of 124:
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Jul 16 07:20 UTC 2000 |
Timmy, you are a genius!
Shitdicks on sticks!
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tpryan
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response 111 of 124:
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Jul 16 14:08 UTC 2000 |
Humm, my dad and other old men are allowed to call me Timmy.
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slynne
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response 112 of 124:
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Jul 16 14:30 UTC 2000 |
Somehow, I dont think a lack of permission is going to stop twinkie.
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flem
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response 113 of 124:
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Jul 16 16:48 UTC 2000 |
Pledge updates:
TOP sponsorship: $325.90 pledged, $249.91 paid
Magnet fund: $318.00 pledged, $260.00 paid
Get those pledges in, or face the Pledge Gestapo! :)
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twinkie
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response 114 of 124:
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Jul 17 04:06 UTC 2000 |
re: 111 -- Don't worry. I didn't type it in an "I like you" kind of way.
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other
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response 115 of 124:
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Jul 17 06:26 UTC 2000 |
The AASF Invoice for the $300 sponsorship has come in. Since it was mailed
to the wrong address (though one which used to be a correct address), I'm
guessing that some of the 30 days has been eaten by the delay.
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jep
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response 116 of 124:
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Jul 17 17:53 UTC 2000 |
re #105: A joint Grex/M-Net booth would be an excellent thing.
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remmers
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response 117 of 124:
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Jul 21 14:11 UTC 2000 |
Glad to hear Grex's TOP night was successful. Sorry I couldn't
make it myself, due to a bad case of out-of-townedness.
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swa
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response 118 of 124:
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Jul 23 20:56 UTC 2000 |
Me too. I'd've liked to be there, sounds like it went well...
Hmm... I'm tempted to add my name to the list of those clamoring for
magnets (especially if there are still a few hundred left over). But I'm
also not likely to be back in A2 for a few months...
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ea
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response 119 of 124:
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Jul 25 02:26 UTC 2000 |
Have we paid the bill?
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