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  • 07/20/2008 at 5:44 pm #1726831
    Jeremy

      We are looking for volunteers to help with GPS downloads and other tasks at the first annual Cache Ba$h event being held August 16th in West Bend. While we’ve already received commitments from most of the “usual” event volunteers in SE Wisconsin, this thing is going to be so huge (probably a mega-event!) that we need to recruit a larger army of volunteers.

      We are still a few laptops short of the number we planned to have set up for GPS downloads, so if you have one you can bring, great! Otherwise we will have some laptops that you can man. If you have no technical skills, don’t worry… we’ll teach you how to hook up the cables and click the right buttons.

      We are especially in need of people to help with tasks in the early morning, say from 6:30am to 9am. The registration and GPS download activities should wind down by 11am, so you’ll still have plenty of time to seek some of the 50 new caches if you volunteer.

      No pay, but I guarantee you’ll meet one of the geocaching teams ranked in the top 5 in the world and at least one WGA Board member (how exciting!). 😉

      Contact Jeremy via PM or email or post here if you want to help out!

      07/25/2008 at 8:39 pm #1892487
      kweejee

        Have you thought of making the GPS files available online the morning of the event so some people can skip that part when they get there?

        07/25/2008 at 10:27 pm #1892488
        marc_54140

          @kweejee wrote:

          Have you thought of making the GPS files available online the morning of the event so some people can skip that part when they get there?

          Yah, Jeremy, what a novel idea!!!!

          😳

          07/27/2008 at 4:41 pm #1892489
          Jeremy

            @kweejee wrote:

            Have you thought of making the GPS files available online the morning of the event so some people can skip that part when they get there?

            Good question. I am not in charge of this event (just a tiny cog in a giant event organizing machine), so I don’t know if this would fly, but I will ask.

            If the GPX file with the cache information was made available online, I’m sure it would be at 6:30am the day of the event (the same time GPS downloads start), and not a second earlier. Would this help you out? Because there is a raffle associated with finding the new caches, we need to make sure no one can get a “head start”.

            07/28/2008 at 10:20 pm #1892490
            SammyClaws

              @Jeremy wrote:

              @kweejee wrote:

              Have you thought of making the GPS files available online the morning of the event so some people can skip that part when they get there?

              Good question. I am not in charge of this event (just a tiny cog in a giant event organizing machine), so I don’t know if this would fly, but I will ask.

              If the GPX file with the cache information was made available online, I’m sure it would be at 6:30am the day of the event (the same time GPS downloads start), and not a second earlier. Would this help you out? Because there is a raffle associated with finding the new caches, we need to make sure no one can get a “head start”.

              If this were to happen you could eliminate or reduce the demand for palm and POI files. Each user could set up for their own configuration or at a minimum take the pressure off the volunteers at the start of the event.

              Personally, I would load it to GSAK and push it out to all our GPS’s in the hotel room then go from there.

              If not, how soon will the caches be posted on GC.com; I am sure the reviewers will be working their fingers to the bone. But a quick PQ would work too.

              08/01/2008 at 12:54 pm #1892491
              Jeremy

                @kweejee wrote:

                Have you thought of making the GPS files available online the morning of the event so some people can skip that part when they get there?

                OK, I brought this up at the last planning meeting on Wednesday. After some discussion, it became obvious that it would be a logistical nightmare to make the file available online exactly at 6:30. (Basically the Chamber of Commerce does not take care of or have direct access to files on the wbchamber.org or westbendcache.com websites.)

                However, we will make the raw GPX file available to folks at the event, so if you want to grab it on a memory stick or something and load your GPS units and PDAs the way you normally do with a Pocket Query, that is an option. Also, if you ask me really nice, I can also email it to you around 6:30 (I say around because I’m sure I’ll be pretty busy that morning!).

                08/05/2008 at 12:41 am #1892492
                sandlanders

                  Can’t offer help and we won’t be attending, but I thought I’d let you know that we saw a television ad for this event on Madison channel 27 (WKOW) this morning sometime between 11:00 a.m. and noon. The word is getting out there!

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