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Re: How about a Brickfest West?
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lugnet.events
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Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:32:54 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.events, David Eaton writes:
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> > However, I find myself wondering whether I'd even bother going if the events
> > were more frequent and closer to me
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> <snip>
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> I snipped most, left this one sentence, kinda sums up nicely... I am coming
> around to this viewpoint. Have one fest a year so *everyone* is incented to
> come. Rotate it around geographically? Perhaps. Quarterly fests, concurrent
> fests, all seem dilutive.
As someone fairly involved in two other activities which have
gatherings, I have to disagree. There are definitely people who will go
to as many events as possible. On the other hand, both of these groups
do have a weeklong annual convention in the summer which moves around
the country (and Canada for one of them) and aims to attract as many
folks from all over as possible. The more frequent, weekend events tend
to mostly draw folks from the local region (most folks not driving more
than 5 hrs), though I have flown to Boston for a weekend event and folks
have flown into other events (actually, this spring a friend flew in
from California to our Virginia event).
Now that Brickfest has been hosted twice by WAMALUG, I would have to say
that unless they suggest it become a roving event that a roving event be
planned with some sensitivity to WAMALUG continuing to hold Brickfest in
June/July in the D.C. area.
I also strongly suspect that an event won't be a serious nationwide draw
until it becomes at least a 4 day event. It's just not worth spending
two days travelling for two days of festing for most people.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) I forgot to say that the consituencies of the other two groups may not be that much larger than the number of AFOLs. Does anyone have a good guess as to the real number of AFOLs? The two activities are caving (which can have an astounding [to (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.events)
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| In lugnet.events, David Eaton writes: <snip> (...) <snip> I snipped most, left this one sentence, kinda sums up nicely... I am coming around to this viewpoint. Have one fest a year so *everyone* is incented to come. Rotate it around geographically? (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.events)
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