[pm-h] Gauging Interesting In A Potential 'Activity' Social Meeting

[Julian Brown]

I am not sure a general audience advertisement would be of much use since
hardly anyone would know what perl is.   But maybe some targeted venues
such as UH or Rice maybe.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Russell Harris via Houston <houston at pm.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, June 6, 2015 4:14 pm, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> > It's been asked in the past and we've gotten crickets in response. Are
> > you suggesting we advertise this somewhere else?
>
> It would be interesting to run an advertisement about a month in advance
> of a particular meeting date, and see what happens.  Being a "public
> service" announcement, the advertisement should run at no cost.  If new
> people show up, the meeting can be used to plan future activities.
>
> Here are a few ideas.  There is a free weekly neighbourhood newspaper
> called "The Leader" which is thrown in the Heights and in Oak Forest on
> the Northwest side of Houston.  There is (at least, there once was) a
> weekly paper at Rice called "The Thresher", and U of H likely has a weekly
> newspaper.  Houston Community College likely has a web site which carries
> announcements.  And someone could contact Jay Lee who writes the weekly
> "Technology Bytes" column for the Houston Chronicle; Lee could make
> mention of the event in his column.
>
> What is needed is a creatively-worded advertisement which would attract
> the attention of computer users who might not be aware of the utility of
> Perl, or might not be aware that there is a local pool of Perl expertise.
> The ulterior motive, of course, is to gain new members for [pm-h].
>
> RH
>
>
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