[NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little People

Fri Mar 1 11:37:46 AKST 2013

Excellent Jim!  Glad I could help.  We will definitely be working to make
the process as streamlined as possible.

Regards,
Scott

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:34 PM, J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Sounds great Scott if you can get it to auto-load without manual entry
> or edit. You know why!****
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> Events could also be posted in Model Aviation. Most aren’t, including our
> local club events. We can't expect folks to show up if we keep it a secret.
> I check MA every month to see what may be of interest around the NW. Those
> not aware of special interest information sources may actually stumble onto
> something of interest in MA without having some degree of prior knowledge.
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> Oh by the way Scott, thanks for the computer help you have been putting in
> the K-Factor and the cpuid down load. I don't know much about these
> computers, I'm just a point and click guy. Your detailer information and
> instructions walked me through the evaluation and identification process
> quite well. I ordered another 2g of ram last week. For $14 I'll give it a
> try.****
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> Jim****
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:
> nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]*On Behalf Of *Scott McHarg
> *Sent:* Friday, March 01, 2013 10:58 AM
> *To:* General pattern discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little
> People
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> Peter,****
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>     I, for one, agree with you.  I believe the SAME information ought to
> be posted in as many different places as it can be.  What we don't want to
> happen is for folks to have to run to 13 places to find the information
> they are looking for.  Through this most recent By-Laws change, we have
> afforded ourselves a little more room with respect to electronic
> distribution and officially makes our website a place where we can provide
> updates.  I love us having a presence on Facebook.  I think that we have
> done quite well and have over 215 followers from all over the world with
> that number increasing almost daily.  We are working on a completely new
> website and should have that up and running in only a short amount of time.
>  We will, however, make it right before we present it.  With the new
> website comes many changes in the layout, presentation and ease of use
> including a calendar and event system that should take care of our needs.
>  We are bringing everything in-house so that we don't have to rely on third
> party vendors.  The problem with having an event section on Facebook is
> that many (especially Keith) do not "habla Facebook".  This gets back to
> having one source of all the information.  There is nothing wrong, however,
> with repeating on Facebook what will be on the website.  I will work very
> hard to make sure this is done once we get our new site up and running.***
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> Scott****
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> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Peter Vogel <vogel.peter at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
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> Yeah, yeah.  But if you want the "little people" (someone elses phrase,
> not mine) to know about our events, that's the place to publish the info!
>  NSRCA has a presence on FB, it should be easy for the contest schedule to
> go in as events in Facebook.  ****
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> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:47 AM, J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:
> ****
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> Face what.
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:
> nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]*On Behalf Of *Peter Vogel
> *Sent:* Friday, March 01, 2013 9:29 AM
> *To:* General pattern discussion****
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> *Cc:* General pattern discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little
> People****
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> It would be much better to publish the events as events in Facebook.
>
> Sent from my iPhone5****
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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:15 AM, "J N Hiller" <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:**
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> When I first saw this on the NSRCA sight I opened an account to test the
> security.****
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> I'm nobody, not a club officer or associated with local or district event
> scheduling, but was allowed to enter an event.****
>
> At the time no authentication was required, seams anyone could enter
> anything anywhere anytime, legitimate or not and yes they are still asking
> me to enter events as well. ****
>
> Jim****
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [
> mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org<nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org>
> ]*On Behalf Of *Jon Lowe
> *Sent:* Friday, March 01, 2013 8:38 AM
> *To:* nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little
> People****
>
> We were tied in with them for over a year on the NSRCA website, and just
> left because we got so many complaints from people trying to enter data,
> data entered was lost, etc.  Requested fixes to the program went
> unresolved, and it seemed as though we were beta testers for their
> software.  But now that we've left, they are begging us to come back, and
> claim to have fixed a lot of problems, but too little too late.****
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>  We have just rolled out new software on the NSRCA website, and the DVP's
> should have district contest data entered soon.****
>
> Jon****
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Hoard <klhoard at hotmail.com>
> To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:10 am
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little People***
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> I don't’ know if the NSRCA leadership has looked at this, but if we
> standardized the  listing of all the pattern events nationally, then we
> would have much greater exposure to the sport flyers.  The website even has
> a smartphone app that leads them right to your field.****
>
> http://www.rcflightdeck.com/events.cfm****
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> I just registered my first event this morning so I haven’t had time to
> play with all of the features, but it appears you could do your entire
> contest pre-registration and fee collection online and print it out the
> afternoon before your event.  It also keeps your information stored for
> next year’s event.****
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