Hull LUG Stand at Haltemprice Computer Fair
I’ve had chance to recover a bit after Sunday’s efforts. Although the event was very busy for the first half and incredibly quiet for the last couple of hours, I think that disappointment is more due to the appalling weather than any fault of the organisers or the event.
Red Rat Computer Fairs were generally OK with us. We had twice as much space than certainly I was expecting, and of course the electricity was included in the cost. One specific condition of the organisers we did find a bit restrictive, that we couldn’t bunk off early. However I guess that is one of the prices you pay to set out your stall in a room with an audience of folks who are at least reasonably computer-aware.
Tony Standing Guard
Standing on our stall chatting to folks and demonstrating what we had on the computers reminded me of when I was at Art College, and I spent my weekends employed as a Saturday-Lad on the Photo Counter of Boots the Chemist.
However over 20 years have passed since those days, and it was more than a bit tiring on my feet and legs; it should be pointed out that this was due mainly to there being pretty much nothing to do for the last couple of hours. Tony and I chatted to a lot of people, and spent a lot of time demo-ing Ubuntu on the two machines that we had there. Overall the response that we had from the public was very positive, and it will be interesting to see how this translates to site hits and new members.
Pick a card - any card
Tony and I felt that overall it is an event that we would recommend that the LUG attends in the future. However it might not be cost effective to attend every month – perhaps every 2 – 3 months. Firstly because what we do for fun could easily become a chore if we committed ourselves to it too often, and secondly there is a danger that in going every month there is a danger that we would just be seeing the same people time & time again.
Of course if it is decided that this is some thing that we want to do again in the future, we would have to work out a fairer way to finance the costs of the stand, and of course a few more volunteers on the stand would be nice.
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