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

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

I agree with this wholeheartedly. In fact, I'm going to make it a point of spending a lot of time out in the unloading area helping people out. While it won't be any fun, it has to be done.

Great idea, Denys. We need to prepare to do this. I'll follow up more as I get to the subsequent messages.

Eric


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:21:12PM -0700, DB wrote:
> 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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