[FredLUG] Re: SFD 2008 progress

[Kermit Jones]

I'll try to drop off a few flyers this week.

Kermit

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I said before, I'm out of town this week.  Did you want to bring some
> stuff over there?
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 08:21 -0400, Kermit Jones wrote:
>> Also, don't forget Tickers Coffee Shop. It's in Westwood shopping
>> center (Has Staples, Lone Star and Starbucks on Rt 3 just East of 95).
>>
>> Great place to hang out, free wi-fi and Pablo (the owner) is a great
>> guy.
>>
>> Kermit
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Paul Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>         So hopefully most of you have either visited the F'burg.com
>>         site, or
>>         seen the SFD/FOSS article in today's paper.  I spent quite a
>>         bit of
>>         time on that interview over the last few days.  Thanks to
>>         Chris for
>>         helping set that up!
>>
>>         I went out yesterday and today to distribute posters and
>>         literature.
>>         There weren't many places that would accept free discs to give
>>         away to
>>         their customers or patrons, except for the library -- where
>>         we'll
>>         probably just leave leftovers after the event -- and Borders.
>>          The
>>         people at Hyperion, who I thought would be really hip to what
>>         we're
>>         doing, were extremely standoffish, almost rude, *both* times I
>>         was
>>         there.  That sort of killed my desire to go there for coffee
>>         in the
>>         future.
>>
>>         Some very cool places were the Wounded Bookstore, the Virginia
>>         Wine
>>         Experience, the F'burg tour office, and the coffee bar/candy
>>         shop/bakery that's a ways down the street near where that
>>         tapas place
>>         used to be (sorry, can't recall the name now).  Borders was a
>>         little
>>         skittish at first (MUST. STAY. INSIDE. CORPORATE. LINES.), but
>>         ultimately were cool and let me leave some discs and stuff
>>         there for
>>         their customers and staff.  All the close computer stores I
>>         used to
>>         know -- IC at Central Park, and the mom-n-pop on Rt. 3 near
>>         I-95 --
>>         are gone.
>>
>>         If anyone wants to distribute some more posters for the event,
>>         I've
>>         uploaded the 8x10 and the 11x17 versions I made to our Google
>>         Group
>>         file page:
>>         http://groups.google.com/group/fredlug/web/SFD2008poster-loc-8x10.pdf
>>         http://groups.google.com/group/fredlug/web/SFD2008poster-loc-11x17.pdf
>>
>>         If you don't want to pay for anything out of pocket, and you
>>         want to
>>         distribute some of the posters I have left, get in touch and
>>         I'll
>>         figure out a way for you to pick it up from my wife while I'm
>>         gone
>>         next week.  Also, if you're making some discs for the event
>>         and need
>>         to drop them off because you can't be there, I'll arrange that
>>         with
>>         her as well.  Get in touch!
>>
>>         Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
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