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Tim Olson
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 Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:28 am Post subject: OSH 2011 and the HQ |
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Since I haven't seen anything come out from anyone else,
I just wanted to put this out there so people could think
about their arrangements a bit. This isn't perhaps
the final story, but if there is anything else coming
down the line, you'll hear it I'm sure from someone else.
Back a few years ago, we started the OSH RV-10 HQ.
Bob and Gary stuck with it longer than I did as far as
doing the majority of the pre-work to make sure that
all the RV-10 folk could camp together. It actually
takes a fair amount of time to create the lists, figure
out who's coming, who's paid, and to get everyone to
reliably provide all of the necessary info to get a
campsite in their name, and not always was everyone
prompt. Once the time came to get the sites, it's a
fair amount of work to buy the supplies for staking them
out, and to physically stake them out...all the while
trying to ensure that everyone would have the proper
amount of space for their rig. Once arrivals started
happening, there was often need to adjust things,
either due to camper preferences, or an individual's
space requirements. Arrivals also meant that people
would show up at all hours, expecting usually Bob or
Gary to stop what they were doing and make it to the
gate to give the car pass credentials and get them to
their site. This was probably not a big deal during
the pre-show-start days, but once you get to the point
where the show starts, like for folks who showed up
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on, it's kind of
a pain to walk back to camp and interrupt your day,
go to the gate, and back to camp, and then have to
get back to what you're doing. I'm sure these hassles
contributed to the lack of interest in organizing
the group for 2011. If it were possible to reserve
a block with the EAA without all these hassles, I'm
sure it could be a different story, but that's not
the way camping works there. If everyone arrived
pre-show on the weekend, it would also probably have
been much easier. And if everyone were able to pre-pay
for their site themselves (which is an option this
year, actually), that would have taken the burden of
money collection off of the guys.
To cut to the chase, at present, none of the past organizers
including myself, are up for being the coordinator of all
of this for 2011. So before we get into July, where
people all start asking what's going on for the RV-10 HQ,
I thought I'd let you know for planning sake that there
likely is nothing going on. Maybe somebody will jump
in and want to organize it, and if so, there would
likely be some people wanting to help, but I'm not sure.
Part of the issue is that one of the significant advantages
of the HQ was that people showed up 1 week prior, staking
the sites, allowing you to have a very close campsite to
the entry gates. So in order to have an HQ and have it
be located similarly, you'd need to have someone onsite
at least 4 or 5 days prior to the show. I'm not sure
that any of the people who WOULD volunteer, COULD do
this.
So just so that people aren't sitting and waiting for the
news for 2011, I just thought I'd put this out there.
It at least gives you time to make your plan.
If there indeed is someone who thinks they'd want to
take on the project, shoot an email to the list
and it's about time to get things underway, as we're
about 20 days from when sites would normally be
staked out.
As for me personally, I'll likely be located somewhere
near the same place as the last few years, and I'll
see some of you at the show!
--
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:34 am Post subject: OSH 2011 and the HQ |
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Tim,
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Thanks for posting a reminder for folks -Â I had intended to post something again but have been buried at work.
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Hope to see all at OSH - I'll likely be in the same area as in years past which is just west of where Tim usually is.
Â
Bob
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robin(at)PaintTheWeb.com
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:32 am Post subject: OSH 2011 and the HQ |
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As a observation we tried to use Google Latitude while at Bonnaroo last month and the accuracy (in that instance) was not acceptable. We could be standing next to each other and it had us as close to each other as we were to the Walmart a mile away. Hopefully it will work better at OSH.
Robin
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Phillip Perry <philperry9(at)gmail.com (philperry9(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
[quote]I'll be wondering around the area from Sat -> Friday.
If anyone uses Google Latitude to share GPS positions with friends, I'll be happy to add you to my list. I'll have my phone with me and you'll know where I am. If you see I'm close by - come chase me down and we'll shake hands.
I suspect there will be quite a bit more activity in the RV-10 parking section now. There are more flying planes and it's the best place for builders to cross paths.
Phil
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Tim Olson <Tim(at)myrv10.com (Tim(at)myrv10.com)> wrote:
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--> RV10-List message posted by: Tim Olson <Tim(at)myrv10.com (Tim(at)myrv10.com)>
Since I haven't seen anything come out from anyone else,
I just wanted to put this out there so people could think
about their arrangements a bit. This isn't perhaps
the final story, but if there is anything else coming
down the line, you'll hear it I'm sure from someone else.
Back a few years ago, we started the OSH RV-10 HQ.
Bob and Gary stuck with it longer than I did as far as
doing the majority of the pre-work to make sure that
all the RV-10 folk could camp together. It actually
takes a fair amount of time to create the lists, figure
out who's coming, who's paid, and to get everyone to
reliably provide all of the necessary info to get a
campsite in their name, and not always was everyone
prompt. Once the time came to get the sites, it's a
fair amount of work to buy the supplies for staking them
out, and to physically stake them out...all the while
trying to ensure that everyone would have the proper
amount of space for their rig. Once arrivals started
happening, there was often need to adjust things,
either due to camper preferences, or an individual's
space requirements. Arrivals also meant that people
would show up at all hours, expecting usually Bob or
Gary to stop what they were doing and make it to the
gate to give the car pass credentials and get them to
their site. This was probably not a big deal during
the pre-show-start days, but once you get to the point
where the show starts, like for folks who showed up
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on, it's kind of
a pain to walk back to camp and interrupt your day,
go to the gate, and back to camp, and then have to
get back to what you're doing. I'm sure these hassles
contributed to the lack of interest in organizing
the group for 2011. If it were possible to reserve
a block with the EAA without all these hassles, I'm
sure it could be a different story, but that's not
the way camping works there. If everyone arrived
pre-show on the weekend, it would also probably have
been much easier. And if everyone were able to pre-pay
for their site themselves (which is an option this
year, actually), that would have taken the burden of
money collection off of the guys.
To cut to the chase, at present, none of the past organizers
including myself, are up for being the coordinator of all
of this for 2011. So before we get into July, where
people all start asking what's going on for the RV-10 HQ,
I thought I'd let you know for planning sake that there
likely is nothing going on. Maybe somebody will jump
in and want to organize it, and if so, there would
likely be some people wanting to help, but I'm not sure.
Part of the issue is that one of the significant advantages
of the HQ was that people showed up 1 week prior, staking
the sites, allowing you to have a very close campsite to
the entry gates. So in order to have an HQ and have it
be located similarly, you'd need to have someone onsite
at least 4 or 5 days prior to the show. I'm not sure
that any of the people who WOULD volunteer, COULD do
this.
So just so that people aren't sitting and waiting for the
news for 2011, I just thought I'd put this out there.
It at least gives you time to make your plan.
If there indeed is someone who thinks they'd want to
take on the project, shoot an email to the list
and it's about time to get things underway, as we're
about 20 days from when sites would normally be
staked out.
As for me personally, I'll likely be located somewhere
near the same place as the last few years, and I'll
see some of you at the show!
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Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD
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