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

Fri Mar 1 12:34:21 AKST 2013

Peter,

We have to finish the design first.  We have a meeting tomorrow night about
the website.  I will tell them of your interest in helping.

Scott

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Peter Vogel <vogel.peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm more than happy to write a tool to pump events into Facebook -- is
> there a way for me to get a structured list of events out of the NSRCA
> event list?
>
> Peter+
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Scott McHarg <scmcharg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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!****
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> 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. ****
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> 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.****
>>>
>>> Jim****
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> -----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
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> Peter,****
>>>
>>>     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.*
>>> ***
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> Regards,****
>>>
>>> Scott****
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Peter Vogel <vogel.peter at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>> 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.  ****
>>>
>>> ** ******
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:47 AM, J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>> Face what.
>>> ****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> -----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****
>>>
>>> *Cc:* General pattern discussion
>>> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Pattern Event Exposure to the Little
>>> People****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> It would be much better to publish the events as events in Facebook.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone5****
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:15 AM, "J N Hiller" <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> ****
>>>
>>> When I first saw this on the NSRCA sight I opened an account to test the
>>> security.****
>>>
>>> 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****
>>>
>>> -----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.****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>>  We have just rolled out new software on the NSRCA website, and the
>>> DVP's should have district contest data entered soon.****
>>>
>>> Jon****
>>>
>>> -----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*
>>> ***
>>>
>>> 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****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> 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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