At 08:45 AM 10/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> I think I know at least 3 or 4 Germans who would like
>> to join and I guess there are a lot more.
If I may butt in... Perhaps there is a way you can do this. First, pick a
location that you think will be convenient for everyone, perhaps near the
chunnel(?) or near an airport. Then, find a pub, restaurant, whatever with
a decent sized meeting room and convince them to let you hold it there for
free. (Often, they'll do this because they figure attendees will buy lots
of beer/food/whatever.)
Next, pick a date. Get together with your core 5 and find a mutually
agreeable date. Plan for 1 day the first time. Let people know about it,
arrange for some computers to be on display, maybe a speaker or two, dig up
some vendors, and go for it.
Costs should be minimal -- printing some flyers, maybe. Income will be
minimal too (perhaps charge vendors a small fee) but can be used as seed
money for the following year.
At the very least, you'll have 5 people getting together for a day of
BS'ing about old computers. At best, you'll have a decent first shot at
it, with the momentum to really do a bang-up job of it the following year.
I think starting out with higher goals worked here because of the high
concentration of techies in the Silicon Valley. Over there, I think a more
modest start makes more sense.
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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 19:35:15 GMT