Promotion

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General

  • Try to engage individuals rather than groups.

Barcamp Rochester

  • Perhaps sponsor the event and get on the t-shirts
  • Staff an Interlock table somewhere visible
  • Wear your Interlock t-shirts!
  • Encourage lots of Interlocutors to give great talks

Stuff We'll Need

  • Monies for sponsorship
  • Get logo to the organizers
  • Interlock logo for a table
  • Business cards
  • Announce mailing list people can sign up for? (in exchange for a t-shirt raffle?)
  • Shirts, stickers, and buttons
  • Computer with slideshow (photos of goings ons in the space)
  • Bigger card with a schedule and directions to the space?

Radio

  • WBER? (David)
  • Soundbytes

Blogs

Make Blog - have given plug to new hackerspaces before (example)

Magazines

  • City Newspaper an independent, weekly, free-of-charge tabloid-format alternative newspaper
  • 2600
  • computerlink magazine distributed free at computer stores and other locations. Monthly. Publisher runs the rocgeeks meetup.
  • Rochester Insider - owned by Gannet, the publisher of the local mainstream daily. Similar format and distribution as City.

Craigslist

http://rochester.craigslist.org/grp/1459303116.html --Expired as of 1/6/10, can the original publisher repost? --Joshshua 20:01, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Promotional Products

Flyers

  • Jimmi posted a bunch of flyers around RIT campus
  • Ben posted Flyers around GCCIS

Business Cards

Brian has printed business cards, and will print more before Barcamp this fall. The printable file is in our shared dropbox folder, if anybody else wants to produce them. They are laid out 8-up, in color, double sided.

Screen Printing

The last t-shirt order was fulfilled in August of 2010. Spare black shirts are still available in most sizes. Contact Brian for shirt-related information.

Colleges

  • University of Rochester
    • targets of opportunity include
      • the large bulletin board in the hall outside of the Courtyard Cafe in the UR Med Center. This is cleaned every "payday Friday" eg, once in the middle of the month, and once at the end of the month.
      • the south and west entry ways to Goergen Hall. These are rarely cleared.
      • several places in the tunnel system
      • along the stairwells leading up from the bookstore to Douglass Dining Center, again, rarely cleared, very prominent.
  • Nazareth
    • I Work here, and am the advisor of our newly-formed gamer club. Let me know what I need to do :-) --Fvox13 05:54, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
  • MCC
    • Target is building 9 (math/comp. sci./IT), 11 (learning centers), and 3 (feeding area)
  • RIT
    • GCCIS - 20 flyers
    • Computer Science House
    • Printers
    • Could somebody post some in the art buildings? Specifically 3rd and 4th floor of Booth (7a) are mainly Graphic Design and Industrial Design. 1st floor has graduate Computer Graphics Design near Webb auditorium as well.
  • Roberts Weselyn
    • (fill in)

Social Networking

Please put the site and who is managing it

Friends

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