[GeoStL] Re: logging breakfast
- From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:13:33 -0500
-
I'll be the first to admit I might have been a little harsh. For that I
apologize to Mark. However, I still don't see what difference it makes if we
make this an event, which, it is already. To think that we would not be
discussing Geocaching at the breakfast is crazy. I read it as saying that we
were just gonna meet and socialize. I think the purpose of the meeting was
to discuss bug swapping and then act upon it. I know that there are several
people who have had bugs for quite a while and maybe we can get them moving.
The last breakfast we had was an instructional breakfast and I feel that
this would be the same. Events should be posted without regard to cache
clicks. If I posted an event for everytime we have a gathering, so be it.
How else do you think we will get people there. Half the people out there
actively caching don't even belong to SLAGA. They don't belong to the
newsgroup either. How do you let them know about events.
Case in point, Marcos, Xitaqua, saw Tiger Day posted as an event and got
involved right away. Without the event page, which was a gathering of
cachers, he would have not met us nor been involved at the level he is now.
He makes all the events. So my opinion, and it is only my opinion, is that
when people start saying we don't need an event for a gathering, they are
thinking of the "Find" and not the outcome.
RGS has posted and advertised the idea of having workshops many times over.
Yet, no one has stepped to the plate and said they would help out. At the
last meeting we had, Lunch I believe, we didn't post an event and I went and
picked Mark up and brought him to the lunch / breakfast. Don't misunderstand
that this was a slam to Mark. It was a slam to everyone who spoke without
thinking of all the cachers who ONLY read the events.
Nuff said!
Mike - Feeling like a bear today!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Hunt" <barbarastl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: logging breakfast
> -
> Nobody said nor implied that they "ONLY care about getting a click for
this
> event". Mark is suggesting a monthly meeting/workshop, which I think is a
> great idea. He doesn't deserve to be told to "Get over it!".
>
> Barbara
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:43 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: logging breakfast
>
>
> You know what... This is a numbers thing.. Exactly why GC.COM wants to get
> away from it.. If there were no numbers involved who would care if there
was
> a cache event or not... You ONLY care about getting a click for the
event...
> I could care less.. To me, it is an advertisement to everyone around. Lots
> of people don't even read this group.. How do we reach them? Granted this
is
> short notice but MAYBE someone will show up because they saw the EVENT
PAGE.
>
> Forget the, "It's not fair" It's an event... If we click it as found, then
> so be it.. Get over it!
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pntball
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:07 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] logging breakfast
>
>
> i dont think that the breakfasts should be logged it is just a gathering
> of folks to have a social thing.now if we were to have monthly meetings
with
> workshops and such then it would be a loggable cache.btw why don't we have
a
> monthly meeting to touch base about what is new in the caching world.we
are
> becoming a bigger group and need to take on the role of organizing a group
> .let's check into this and see what we can pull out of the hat.pntball
>
>
> Glenn <Glenn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> That is a common thought, nothing to get blasted about. Many parts of
> the
> country list events every time someone stops on the corner to talk.
> Other
> places list only bigger events and others list the monthly planning
and
> members meetings too.
>
> In general, an event has to be for geocachers, where geocaching is
> discussed, or participated in.
>
> Many folks are starting to balk at the "I am going (camping, eating,
> walking... ) y'all come along sort of event pages.
>
> I think personally they are sort of borderline. That is why I haven't
> posted any of my geocaching camping w/e caches this year.
>
> The only event caches that I *clearly* think are bogus are the types
> that
> are not directly geocaching related but some geocachers are invited to
> show
> up... "Come to our 4wheel drive event, some cachers are gonna be
there,
> we
> can tal k" .. ect.
>
> It a wash to me, what ever the consensus is is OK by me.
>
> gln
>
>
>
> At 12:45 PM 9/18/2003, Barbara Hunt wrote:
>
> >-
> >Maybe I'll get blasted, but it doesn't seem right to be able to log a
> cache
> >every time we meet at a restaraunt to eat! For a big event like the
> picnic
> >or holiday party, OK, but for every breakfast or lunch? I like Jen's
> idea of
> >placing a cache or two nearby in which to log the travel bugs for the
> >exchange.
> >
> >
> >
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