<VV> Convention--Hotel

[airvair]

Hi Harry,

One interesting comment that one of the convention organizers told to me
directly was that "his and two of the other clubs had figured about
three weeks before the convention that they had the details nailed, but
then suddenly found out that one of the clubs had laid down on the job.
So all they could do was hang on and ride out the train wreck." Not an
exact quote, but close enough. And his identity will remain anonymous.

As you said, there are a lot of details that have to be attended to, and
if just one person (or club in this case) doesn't follow thru, you can
have a train wreck on your hands.

-Mark

"Harry Jensen, CORSA Executive Secretary" wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark--
> 
> [Larry Claypool added to the distribution.]
> 
> I agree. Maps and directions need to be better. When we did conventions in
> Chicago, we always put **everything** into the program book: maps and
> directions to off site activities, churches, hospitals, etc. That way,
> everyone who registers should have access to that information. We printed
> extra copies of the program book from 2001 and routinely give it out to
> convention organizers as an example of what a **good** program book should
> contain.
> 
> But understand that there are an enormous amount of details in planning a
> convention, so it is easy for some details to fall through the cracks. It
> is difficult to understand how many details are involved, until you are
> involved in the planning of a convention...
> 
> --H
> 
> At 01:30 PM 8/6/2006, airvair wrote:
> >But the welcome party is another matter. Interesting location, but as I
> >posted before, the directions to same were minimal if nonexistant. I
> >only found it by blindly following a couple wearing Corvair regalia, who
> >soon turned back. But then I followed somebody else farther up. Like I
> >said in the earlier post, maps and directions were the pits. What
> >happened??? Hope future conventions take note! PLEASE MAKE MAPS AND
> >*ACCURATE* DIRECTIONS TO ALL OFF-SITE EVENTS PLENTIFUL AND WIDELY
> >AVAILABLE!! And not just to *only* participants registered to that
> >specific event. (I had to resort to my AAA map in order to find the
> >concours, as nothing I could scrounge up had any indication as to where
> >the park was, let alone directions to same. And I was supposed to be a
> >judge!)
>