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Re: Mindfest Questions
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Date: 
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 01:08:12 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote:
> > How large was it?  Number of exibits, presenters?
> 
> I think there were somewhere between three and five hundred people, about a
> third of them children.

Cool.  From hearing some of the rants about the childrens' behavior, I'm kinda
glad I didn't have to deal with that stress concerning my models.  If I came,
I definitely would have brought a bunch....

> There were a couple dozen exhibits, mostly Mindstorms-based robots. Then,
> there were a large number of panels (five a day?) and also a lot of smaller
> tutorial sessions.

Nifty!

> > How big of a role did the NELUGgers/AFOL's have in the presentation?  Any
> > speakers?
> 
> NELUG had an exhibit table, which, thanks to the cool SW stuff was quite
> popular. No one from NELUG was on any of the panels, but a lot of LUGnet
> people were.

Were there any individual speakers or even recognition or introductions?  Or
was it more like a fair and just had exhibits and the people pretty much stuck
by them...?

And by any chance was Matt Chasse there?  He's the TLG rep for the Chicago
area.  I just talked to him on the phone yesterday concerning borrowing
company bricks for an event - and he mentioned he was out of town for two
weeks.  Since he's moving to CT soon, he most likely could have been there.  I
met him at a Lego expo at a toy store a couple months back.

> > And nice pictures - but could someone go through and add captions - esp so
> > people know who are in the people pictures?
> 
> Yes. I plan to. In fact, I'd be doing that right now if I weren't writing
> this message. *grin*

:)

I really really hope I get to come to Enfield in Jan, that means that I'll
spend some time in Boston with yall and finally get to meet yas :)

-Tim



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(...) I want it to be clear that the vast majority of the kids there were _awesome_. Very intelligent and mature. A lot of the "problem" people were in fact the so-called grown-ups. (...) There were keynotes. I was too sleepy for the main one, (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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(...) I think there were somewhere between three and five hundred people, about a third of them children. There were a couple dozen exhibits, mostly Mindstorms-based robots. Then, there were a large number of panels (five a day?) and also a lot of (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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