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

[thatericn at aol.com]

Yes Denys, we should not be unloading cars ourselves - good clarification.? All we need is someone to drop/crush an attendee's gazillion point lead army, or scratch up their brand new car...

Eric N.

"Serenity now!"


-----Original Message-----
From: DB <noldor at gmail.com>
To: deptheads at strategicon.net
Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 4:51 am
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Trying to solve the Parking situation where we're at



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
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, 299 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 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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