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RE: Booth monitors and crowd control
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:42:06 GMT
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"as well as concealing our chairs, and personal belongings."
No to mention our legs!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ba-lego@cinnamon.com [mailto:ba-lego@cinnamon.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:07 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf@lugnet.com
> Subject: Booth monitors and crowd control
>
>
> X-10 power control.
> We had a wireless remote control to turn two outlets on or
> off. These
> controlled the track controllers for both loops (ckt. 1) and the power
> to the rotating doggie atop the Spamcake Diner (ckt. 2).
>
> Oddly, the RF remote was usually in the hands of the operator who
> stood closest to the track power controllers...which left the other
> operator calling out "Stop the outter loop!".
>
> I think the remote idea works well, and I'll develop that further.
> I'll also suggest that we try to have more than one remote, so a few
> booth monitors can "throw the switch" when they see trouble.
> The person
> near the controllers would be the last person to get a kill
> switch. ;-)
>
> These pocket remotes are also available in 4-ckt versions, and I may
> consider picking up a few of those as well, for larger layouts.
>
> Monitors on the outside
>
> I think that having members on the outside worked well, when we had
> some members outside helping. The main problem is, you don't have an
> area to sit down when you are working outside. Since standing all day
> is a drag, this also speaks to having shifts, or even rotating from
> "inside" (with a chair") to "outside" during your shift.
>
> More room on the inside
>
> Well, I'd like to think that we were crowded due to a lack
> of planning,
> but I have a gut feeling that tells me that even with great planning,
> putting on a show will frequently throw us last-minute changes, and
> I'm not sure how to plan for them.
>
> The round house was to blame. It was an odd-size, versus
> Mike's tables.
> There was a presumption of where the tracks would pass along
> the module,
> but it was wrong, and we ended up designing the show layout all over
> again on the back of used pages, less than 12 hours from move-in to
> the show floor. At that point, it didn't matter about earlier
> versions,
> or how much planning we had done. We guessed at a track
> design, but then
> the task of putting it together showed us where we had mis-guessed at
> room needed for switched track, etc.
>
> In one area, we only had 30", and that was pretty narrow. We should
> plan for more room in the middle, but since Mike's tables are
> 45" deep,
> that means the booth needs to be larger (which means more tables...).
>
> We also need to discuss tables versus modules again. Mike's still
> working on his. Who else is planning on trying to build a module or
> more on their own? (Maybe we should plan on those modules being used
> to expand Mike's modules? He can make corners and switches, and the
> others are simply straight tracks following his
> zoning/placement plans?)
> When would we want to use tables instead?
>
> Mike was talking about selling his tables before the show at cost.
> I don't know if they are still available. After the teardown, I think
> Mike, Tom McD. and I agree that the tables with fold-up legs are much
> nicer towork with than the PNLTC-style...maybe Mike's going
> to retrofit
> his tables, and use them for modules?
>
> My main point here is that we probably need to try to get our tables
> together before a show, and make sure we all see how they fit. The
> NMRA show was the first time many of these tables and legs had been
> mated together, and new holds had to be drilled, etc. The show floor
> is a hard place to do integration. Having a test-run before the show
> would have given us some time to rework the track plan, and maybe even
> make another table or two. (We can now try to make some layout designs
> with more room, so when we get asked to display, we can try to get a
> slightly larger booth, having tried a few other designs.)
>
> On-site storage
>
> With most display items arriving in LEGO tubs and model boxes, these
> containers were visible to the visiting public. Many folks thought we
> were selling LEGO. Some kids wanted to open the boxes. I think having
> some kind of drape in front would have been great, to hide the boxes,
> as well as concealing our chairs, and personal belongings.
>
> -Z-
>
> --
> Zonker Harris (zonkerh@corp.webtv.net, zonker@gnac.com)
> GNAC Broadband Network Architect, Microsoft Broadband Deployment
> MS-SVC-1:2179 1065 La Avenida, Mt. View, CA
> v) 650.693.8403 f) 650.693.0202
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