This month the RV.NUG decided to hold a yard sale right before the monthly meeting. The reaon for this was to
- encourage attendance (following Code Camp and winter drop in attendance)
- give some older books and accumulation of geek items a good home
The yard sale worked. We had the highest attendance since Code Camp, found good homes for the books. We even met our secondary goal of making a little bit of money.
In addition, we realized a bigger (and unexpected) benefit.
- We had the most networking before a monthly meeting ever!
It didn't matter that the books were old or that the collection of items from trade shows were not high-tech gadgets. Everyone still rummaged through the items and networked. There were a lot of comments of "who still uses this?", "who would want this?", but it was fun. I noticed a lot of contact information being traded between members during the yard sale.
Looks like we will be adding a yard sale to the RV.NUG annual events.