[dc401-l] Next Meeting: Feb 24th - QuahogCon Organizing

[Scott Dexter]

Devious thinking there, I like it! :)

"They will be hacking some unknown device that they refuse to divulge
details about publicly! Nothing good can come from this. Lockpicking
too!!"

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Scott Dexter

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so"
    --Ford Prefect




On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:05 PM, ~*Joan Delilah Pepin*~
<joandelilah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our best bet for lots of coverage may be "bad press".
> If a few local talk-shows get a leak that some evil hacker group is planning
> their annual orgy of destruction in Providence- that may interest the local
> "fair and balanced" newsteam to run a scare-story. Deliberate confusion with
> DC would certainly help work up a good lather.
>
> Then we get to retort- local kooks on both sides write op-eds... Media Chaos
> reigns... We get slashdotted... Tickets sell.
> Just sayin'
> ~*Joan Delilah*~
>
> Sent from my iPhone, so please excuse my typos. :)
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Agent5 <ag3nt5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If we make QuahogCon sound interesting enough to the layman, local radio
> stations will definitely talk about it without us having to pay for
> advertising. I'm going to check around and see if I know anybody with ties
> to the Providence Journal. Just a thought. Might we offer the Journal to do
> a continuous story about the con? This is history in the making. Perhaps
> someone sitting in the corner with a notebook and some discretion could
> paint this convention as the biggest thing to happen to Providence since the
> great flood of "18xx". Which it is. Other people just don't know it yet.
>
> -Dave Johnson
>
> P.S. if this gets sent twice. Blame my iPhone.
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Agent5 <ag3nt5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Agent5 <ag3nt5 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [dc401-l] Next Meeting: Feb 24th - QuahogCon Organizing
>> To: Scott Dexter <scott.dexter at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> If we make QuahogCon sound interesting enough to the layman, local radio
>> stations will definitely talk about it without us having to pay for
>> advertising. I'm going to check around and see if I know anybody with ties
>> to the Providence Journal. Just a thought. Might we offer the Journal to do
>> a continuous story about the con? This is history in the making. Perhaps
>> someone sitting in the corner with a notebook and some discretion could
>> paint this convention as the biggest thing to happen to Providence since the
>> great flood of "18xx". Which it is. Other people just don't know it yet.
>>
>> -Dave Johnson
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Scott Dexter <scott.dexter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I see someone else has already guessed a bit at what is being blurred
>>> out in the comments. I wonder if anyone has tried contacting local
>>> media about mentioning the Con. Can't hurt....
>>>
>>> ================================
>>> Scott Dexter
>>>
>>> "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so"
>>>    --Ford Prefect
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Brian Jepson <bjepson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:19 AM, ducksauz wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> In other news, we're up to 41 tickets sold and we got some press on
>>> >> the
>>> >> Make blog this morning and more to come later today.
>>> >>
>>> >> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/hack_your_badge_at_quahogcon_2010.html
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > And post gratuitous^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H meaningful thoughts in the
>>> > comments. That helps make the post more AWESOMER.
>>> >
>>> > - Brian
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