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Re: Mindstorm Mall Tour looking for a few good LUGs
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lugnet.org.us
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:27:33 GMT
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Hi Matt.
I would love to do this.
Unfortuntely, this was in Seattle ONE WEEK before I held the first SEALUG
interest meeting. :^(
Oh Well.
Please keep me posted for future LEGO events. I would love to have SEALUG
assist with anything TLG has in our area.
~Mark
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
> From: "Matthew Teets" <matthew.teets@sciatl.com>
> Organization: None
> Newsgroups:
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> slug,lugnet.org.us.gmlug,lugnet.org.us.lugola,lugnet.org.us.nclug,lugnet.org.u
> s.nelug,lugnet.org.us.sealug
> Followup-To: lugnet.org.us
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:24:34 GMT
> Subject: Mindstorm Mall Tour looking for a few good LUGs
>
> A couple weeks back I posted a pretty critical but not mean-spirited (IMHO)
> critique of the mall tour as it passed near me (reference message Dear Lego
> n=2518). I was then contacted by Jeff Ardis the tour manager by e-mail. He
> stated that indeed they had seen some of these problems themselves,
> particularly in the area of the (usually temporary) workers skills at working
> with Lego. I gave him a call and we threw around some ideas which could be
> summed up pretty easily and are just preliminary until interest is determined
> to exist.
>
> 1. The Mindstorms Mall tour would love to possibly have some AFOLs work at
> their tour events to hopefully keep the projects running better and provide
> some extra enthusiasm.
>
> 2. LUGs would be able to set up their own (small) display in with the
> exhibit , with the only focus being that it doesn't overshadow the mall tour
> itself. Also, two other stipulations touched on only very briefly was that
> there should be extra space at each tour stop for this but some malls
> basically "cheat" and they have barely enough room for the display itself; and
> also that sticking with current product or things made from current product
> would be appreciated.
>
> 3. Volunteers would be compensated somehow, this was very sketchy but Jeff
> sounded sincere and I certainly didn't want to jump to any conclusions what
> might be best.
>
> The mall tour ends at the end of the year so Jeff wanted to set up something
> quickly. I thought that this should probably be coordinated best at the LUG
> level, because if Jeff receives calls from 240 different people I think he may
> have other thoughts. Plus if we can do this at a LUG level then I also think
> that it will give us a little boost at TLC as far as the quality of our
> organizations. I didn't list the Train clubs in this posting but certainly
> they would be welcome too. The tours dates and locations can be found at:
>
> http://mindstorms.lego.com/
>
> under the 2000 Mall tour.
>
> I told Jeff I would post this and see what response I got. He was only
> somewhat familiar with Lugnet and didn't understand the LUG structure at all
> at first. I'd certainly like your opinions on this and I would have certainly
> involved you all earlier had I realized that perhaps our phone conversation
> would evolve into this. I'd post his phone number and contact information
> right now, but I'd really rather see the response before I might throw him for
> a loop. This post is meant to check the interest level and solicit opinions.
>
> Matt
>
> PS I also apologize for the rather wide net I tossed in the newsgroups posted,
> follow-up probably best posted to: lugnet.org.us
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