Boards.ie Carlow Goes Public????

blu_sonic

i want to know if y'all would be in favour of "advertising" boards around the IT? lets face it outside of comsoc noone uses the boards, and it good be used for so much, (couldn't it?) if y'all are in favour mail me i'll "design" (i is a designer after all) some adverts and post em here (not being in carlow at the moi can't put em around)

Redrocket

go for it, just need to figure out what exactly to say to advertise it right

TomTom

I've no problems with that. Cue alot of muppets though.

Laguna

Yeah, I suggested this last year. I don't know the position of the college though, if they'll allow leaflets/flyers being handed out or pinned up.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

The college wouldn't have a problem with it... why would they? It's an excellent idea as the Carlow.it thread is just about dead... Not many people know about it and as you say those who do only seem to be members of compsoc or netsoc (Mostly)... I'm in favour...

TomTom

If you are going to do it though, please pass the poster by myself and ivan first, please.

s4dd

hmm...

blu_sonic

i'll post it here, i can't stick em up myself due to being in dublin or london all the time, if the posters are kept to the poster boards and areas provided but handing things out are a no-no

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Handing things out would be a no no because why?

Nice input s4dd, I like your thinking...

blu_sonic

the college doesn't allow it, i used to be part of the socialist soc and we wanted to hand out stuff they wouldn't let us, ever see the guy with the god books and stuff? he can only sit and be approached but not approach others, so handing things out wouldn't be alowed

blu_sonic

we could throw an ad into the blurb!!
if they dontwe can kick up stink!!
lets wait for a week and see how the poll goes 1st though

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

The SUI presedent won't have a problem with putting a little ad in the blurb. I think putting up posters around the college will recruit as good...

So what exactly is the big deal in approaching someone? Apart from the fact that if it happens often enough people get pissed...

s4dd

way to answer your own question xavier

elvis2002

doesn't seem to be any problems about handing out information about the latest night in the barracks and the like.

blu_sonic

they're just touchy borsturdads about things like that, its a case of rubbing them up the wrong way, when i was a 1st year the su pres was a big finna failer, i was swp didn't like that get our soc a bit of a hard one abput little things but c'est la vie

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

So where exactly are you from and where dould I get a dictonary for the language in which you speak? Seriously though... was that supposed to make some kind of sence???

Anyway, when are you guys thinking of starting this? If there is anyway I can help let me know, I will announce it at Compsoc tomorrow night.

blu_sonic

blu_sonic wrote:

borsturdads

bas terds but it won't be allowed

blu_sonic wrote:

su pres

student president

blu_sonic wrote:

finna failer

Fianna Fail supporter

blu_sonic wrote:

swp

Socialist workers party

blu_sonic wrote:

soc

society

blu_sonic wrote:

hard one

a rough time

blu_sonic wrote:

abput

mis-spelling = about

when i looked over it i agree total gibberish, i was in a hurry typing it sorry

hold off till next week, lets see how the poll goes i'll post my "concept" posters here for everyone to have an input, ok?

Laguna

The only reason I think the college would have a problem with it was the fact that when I was in the drama society (that invariably did nothing every year due to lack of commitment) they weren't happy with us handing out leaflets in the canteen or library to try and get people to join, so much so they simply told us it was never going to happen. Go for the blurb thing, most folks only skim read it though (we put an ad in there for the last three years, week in, week out) and might not notice it. I dunno if you'll attract many people to here anyhow (do give it a shot though), I think it's the reserve of computer types and maverick designers.. :cool:

blu_sonic

posters are fine, blurb would be fine, but i think they view handouts as a nuisence

CareBear

Ye don't really need to hand out flyers anyhow.
The posters and advert in the blurb should attract enough attention I'd say

blu_sonic

CareBear wrote:

Ye don't really need to hand out flyers anyhow.
The posters and advert in the blurb should attract enough attention I'd say

agreed, so far looks like most everyone is in favour

s4dd

i... have small qualms

blu_sonic

s4dd wrote:

i... have small qualms

whip out your qualms, lets see how smal they are and maybe we can make you feel better about them?
seriously whats up?

Redrocket

wheres this poster???

blu_sonic

i've not made it yet i'll be back from london tomorrow.
i was waiting till i got the nod from y'all (ie. the poll result)

wheres me jumpa

we dont really need to vote on this. its a forum for the students of the college so they deserve to know about the place. its not just for a select few. yes there will be a certain smell of muppet around but that will be a small price to pay.

a poster is fine but it wont reach everyone. an email could be sent to the leaders of the societies and get them to spread the word to their members. im sure every society out there would be happy to avail of a forum.

s4dd

HA!!!! i've been begging the societies for ages to let us host forums for them... you'd be suprised just how lazy/uninterested the socs of carlowit can be.

wheres me jumpa

well its not a hosting proposal. this is more of a casual proposal. i.e. is not really asking for any comittment its just saying drop by every now and again. the reason i made the point is that there should be no problem emailing these people and they in turn have the potential to get alot of people involved. they dont have to create a thread for their soc just drop a line or two.

im not saying this is THE way to do it, im just offering a suggestion.

blu_sonic

yeah but i'd say there are plenty of "peeps" (im a gangsta) not in soc's, so lets just do as much as possible, i didn't want to ruffel any feathers of those alreay on boards by just going solo on the whole thing, but generally all systems are go yeah?

s4dd

yeah, i guess so

wheres me jumpa

yeah do it.

il send out an email tomorrow and make sure my class knows about this place too.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Although most of the veterans of compsoc know about this magical place I will announce it to them again, we have alot of first years this year that don't know about boards... We will have alot of tosspots here but like any forum they just come and go.

See the problem with your offer paul, is that not all societies are nerds like us. I would say that very few would have a damn clue about forums. If you got all the society leaders and asked them what boards.ie was or even what a forum was, they wouldn't have a clue. You can only mail them and show them examples...

TomTom

It would be cool to get some more people on, let them know about some services in the college and stuff like that.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Well like I said, I would gladly help with the campaign. More work for ye mods to do, eh tom?

I will also mention it to my class, via email. I guess about 4% will have some sort of interest. Anyhow I think that this forum will pick up over the next few weeks. I'm guessing that members will mainly be composed from netsoc and composc <-EDIT HERE) members...

wheres me jumpa

Erik Unkempt Tricycle wrote:

Well like I said, I would gladly help with the campaign. More work for ye mods to do, eh tom?
compose members...

so ye did change the name of compsoc??!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Grr must you be highlight every little mistake I make, I will beat you with a trout, a wet fish that is... I suggest Jumper head be bannished from these forums for being off topic 99% of the time. :P

s4dd

Erik Unkempt Tricycle wrote:

See the problem with your offer paul, is that not all societies are nerds like us. I would say that very few would have a damn clue about forums. If you got all the society leaders and asked them what boards.ie was or even what a forum was, they wouldn't have a clue. You can only mail them and show them examples...

okay, i made a mistake... we wern't offering to host "forums" we were offering to host "anything"... like photo galleries, event reports.. anything.

Anyways, we have a few interested "nibbles" which we will be looking into soon... the most important of which will be the GAA presence in the college. and the SU ofc...

-edit-

also, i notice you called yourself a nerd..... i think we need to start a thread to clearly define this word! dunno if i'd like to be lumped into the same category as yourself after all

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Damn right, i'm in a league of my own... (No smart arse comments, you hear paul???)

And I didn't say I was a nerd, I mentioned that we were nerds... i.e. netsoc...

s4dd

"we" netsoc?! eh... right so... also, i shaved off most of my beard and my hair tonight... that's what insomnia and boredom do to you

blu_sonic

i will make a few posters tonight, depending on how long it takes me i'll mail them to the admins and post thumbnails here too ok?

blu_sonic

two posters done where do i send em?

blu_sonic

hey i just got two stars

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blu_sonic

i'll mail the full sizes images to the mod or whatever

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Good, but for people who don't know much about forums they won't be able to find it. Could you add the whole link or directions to the carlowIT forums on the posters?

the_syco

NICELY ask an admin person could they do a shortcut such as

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/carlow

which would point to:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=318

Just to make it easier on the peeps to remember the address. Me thinks another forum had something similair, but I'm too drunk/tired/lazy to find it.

blu_sonic

i think that our mods would need to sort that out, don't forget these two are just thumbs the final ones are a little bit more refind

blu_sonic

another thumnail, this one explains how to get onto the carlow board

red_bairn

Could you send them to me after your finished designing em? I could put em up in the GSA if ya can.thx

blu_sonic

i sent you an IM, IM me with your e-mail k?

TomTom

Can you send me them in an e-mail, I want to pass them by the boards admin first as it uses their artwork.

I'll also ask about the link once they aprove the posters.

blu_sonic

you'll need to send me an im w/your e-mail address tom, its worth clearing it with boards but i seriously doubt any recourse