[Deptheads] Trying to solve the Parking situation where we're at

[Mike Fryer]

The circle drive is for airport vans only, and my guess is that they
will not be letting any other vehicles in the back. Any unloading will
have to be done in the front.

I am working on the parking and I have a really good lead for a good
parking solution. I think a large sign with the flyers may work as well
or better. It is going to be really hot out there, nobody will want to
or should have to stand out there for hours. 

Mike Fryer


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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:21 PM
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Subject: [Deptheads] Trying to solve the Parking situation where we're
at

Here's how I think we can help the parking situation for Gamex at
Raddison.
There are two parts to it.  PLEASE don't casually dismiss this message
--
read and comment.

It will take a few volunteers but I think it will go a long way to
showing
the attendees that we are trying to address the problem given the
difficulties.  Please note, we can NOT simply put additional parking
instructions on the web site.

One.

We have a con volunteer out on Vicksburg sidewalk, near the hotel
entrance,
and they have a stack of photocopies with a map of the area showing
every
nearby parking lot and the parking fee.  If there are in/out privleges
for
that lot, we note it.  These lots should be nearby hotels, airport lots,
whatever.  We also indicate where there is (if any) day-long parking on
the
street.

We can NOT leave this to the hotel to do; they've shown themselves to be
very difficult to work with and we should not depend on them.  We need
to
have a con volunteer out there doing this.

This helps only half of the situation because people want to park close
and
not lug fifty pounds of gaming supplies.  This brings me to:

Two.

We have a couple con volunteers by the circle drive entrance to allow
people
to unload.  These volunteers will supervise the area and watch over the
stuff people unload until those people can go find parking in one of the
lots nearby.  This lets people leave their stuff under con supervision
rather than make them break their backs walking back from parking (which
could be up to several blocks away).

Are there potential problems with folks leaving their stuff under our
supervision?  Yes.  But I truly believe we need to offer this option or
these people loaded down with their books and minis and board games
might
just say "fuck it" and drive away.

What does all this do?

It shows the attendees that we care.  It shows them we're aware of the
problem and not hiding our heads in the sand like Rocky and crew would
have
done.  One of the complaints I was hearing about from the parking
situation
at OrcCon  is that folks would show up to park but there was no info out
front as to where else to go when they were told parking was full.  Now
with
Gamex, pretty much everyone is going to have this problem.  WE NEED TO
ADDRESS IT.

To do this, we need a few volunteers that we can swap out over the
course of
Friday late afternoon & evening and, especially, Saturday (mainly).
This
won't be very fun volunteer duty but we need to find someone to do it.
Barring that, we need to pay folks to do it.  Let's get someone out
there
with a card table, a beach umbrella and ice water and we can swap
volunteers
out every couple hours just to change it up for them.

I know it's not the best solution but we don't have much choice.  We're
faced with the problem -- it's unlikely we'll move -- let's deal with
it.

 - Denys



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