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[Ron Bean]

>It's also the case that, at least initially, the size of the set of people
>you hit with your outreach has more to do with the size of your initial
>social network/interested cadre than with the size of your city.  And has   
>to do with what the nerd-organizing infrastructure in your city looks like
>(do you have a dorkbot, do you have universities, do you have users groups,
>etc etc.)

Also Barcamp, and surplus stores (in our case, American Science & 
Surplus).