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    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
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      <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
          Arial, sans-serif">I <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
            sans-serif">saw rumours around <font face="Helvetica,
              Arial, sans-serif">the interw<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                sans-serif">eb </font>stating that the next battlemesh
              will be held in L<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">eipzig<font
                  face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <font
                    face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">as was also
                    suggested in Aalborg.<br>
                    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Is that
                      true? I<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">t
                        <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">would
                          be great.<br>
                          <br>
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                              face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Learning
                              from the errors <font face="Helvetica,
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                                I think we have learned a lot. If we <font
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                                  <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
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                                        testbed setup, testing</font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
                          a<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">nd
                            organization, plus improve in more advanced
                            planning and better <font face="Helvetica,
                              Arial, sans-serif">promotion </font>the
                            next <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
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                                <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
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                                    Arial, sans-serif">As discussed in
                                    Aalborg, I want to re<font
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                                      endorsement strategy to <font
                                        face="Helvetica, Arial,
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                                        a broader audience<font
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                                            face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                            sans-serif">. <font
                                              face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                              sans-serif">If we plan
                                              things in advance we can
                                              achieve the fol<font
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                                                  list of things <b>before</b></font>
                                                we start promoting the
                                                event, which would be
                                                great:<br>
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    <ul>
      <li>endorsement 2014 page ready</li>
      <li>a digital poster with all the logos of the endorsers and
        sponsors (if accepted by the community and present)</li>
      <li>few big printed posters to put at the event if not too
        expensive</li>
      <li>shirts</li>
    </ul>
    <p>To achieve this we need:<br>
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>collaboration from each endorser</li>
      <li>find at least 1 volounteer graphic designer</li>
      <li>at least two people, (I offer myself as a volounteer again for
        this) and someone else, which take care of coordinating these
        aspects - but it would better to have 3, so if anyone is busy
        the second or the third person can keep doing the remaining
        things</li>
    </ul>
    <p>As next step in the following weeks I will copy the page of the
      2013 endorsers in a new page for 2014, contact each endorser and
      ask if they are willing to endorse again the next edition, plus
      contacting again those who didn't make it to be on the endorsement
      list (OpenWRT, Funkfeuer are the first that come into my mind).<br>
    </p>
    <p>Regarding social networks,</p>
    <p>I saw this new facebook page:<br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/Battlemesh">https://www.facebook.com/Battlemesh</a><br>
    </p>
    <p>And this twitter account:<br>
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      <a href="https://twitter.com/battlemesh">https://twitter.com/battlemesh</a><br>
    </p>
    <p>It would be great to use them to promote the event, before and
      during the event with live updates.<br>
    </p>
    <p>As a last note, I would like to point out that this is one of the
      most interesting, friendly, fun and skilled community organized
      events I've been to.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Costs are purposely kept low, main focus is of technical
      improvement and sharing of knowledge, it's fun, it's interesting,
      cutting-edge, real, "<b>non รจ fuffaware</b>" as we would say in
      italian.</p>
    <p>It's not a conference organized by some big organization which
      costs money to get in, it's not exclusive and I hope we intend to
      keep the spirit this way. So my goal at improving the promotion is
      purely aimed at reaching all the people out there that have not
      realized the battlemesh potential but would surely love it and
      learn a lot from it if they come.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Federico<br>
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