Re: About the Cyberspace Jamboree on the 18th WJ
Lucas James (jj@LDJPC.APANA.ORG.AU)
Tue, 28 Feb 1995 10:34:03 +1030
On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, David Brown wrote:
> <SNIP>
ditto
> >The 18th world jamboree also has a limited number of telephone lines
> >available. The organisation comes first, then the programme activities.
> I was at the 18th Oz and was amazed at the amount of phones available. Pay
I was at the 17th Oz/15th Asia/Pacific, and yes there was a lot of
phone lines available
> phone were ubiquitous and every staff tent had at least one handset. Of
Every subcamp HQ, and every Contingent HQ had at least 2 phone lines
each. (That is how we got the phone lines for the 1st World CyberSpace
Jamboree - we borrowed 1 phone line from here and there, until we had
enough).
> course they are limited, by definition. But a lttle bit of planning and
> discussion with the local telco can overcome this sort of dificulty. If they
> are prepared to be nice to the service providers they might even be able to
> negotiate sponsorship.
Exactly. The 1st World CyberSpace Jamboree was sponsored by
CompuServe. They picked up the connection charges from CompuServe Perth
back to the US for us.
> An example is Apple computer in this Country. They give away lots of Macs
> to schools. What happens when the kids leave school? They expect to use a
> Mac at work and plan to buy a Mac for home use. [As managers, we then then
> have to retrain them ;-) ] The point is that there will be say 30,000 happy
> consumers at the Jamboree who will have lots of parents and relatives and
> friends and so on. That adds up to alot of potential sales and a pile of
> $s. I don't think it would take too big a spreadsheet to convince a few
> companies that sponsorship of an event like this is an investment rather
> than a gift.
I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in South Oz,
companies are DIEING to get some international exposure.
some more for discussion...
Yis
Lucas
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