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

Wed Apr 30 08:12:34 PDT 2008

I think this is a great idea, and I am willing to put a few hours in if
needed.  I will also talk to the board game HQ staff and see if I can get an
hour or two out of them.

I think we need to make the time out there as short as we can, no one likes
to be cut off from the con.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:51 AM, DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2 people is a smart idea.
>
> Let me make clear that I was never talking about having volunteers "help
> unload". All we're doing is supervising and keeping watch over an unloading
> area, not lifting or manuevering attendees' supplies.  They need to do that
> themselves as they would have if they had parked in the regular lot.
>  - Denys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thatericn at aol.com
>
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:17:13
> To:deptheads at strategicon.net <To%3Adeptheads at strategicon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Trying to solve the Parking situation where we're
> at
>
>
> Good thinking, methinks.  This probably means three folks at any one
> time.  Parking Guy and Loading People.    We should have two people at all
> times that we are helping unload, as to build confidence that it's just not
> some guy b.s.ing and running a scam.  Eric N.  P.S. I'll gladly volunteer
> for significant "Parking Flyer Dude" time.   -----Original Message-----
> From: DB <noldor at gmail.com> To: deptheads at strategicon.net <
> deptheads at strategicon.net> Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 4:21 pm 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 volunt!
>  eer 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 t!
>  han 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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