In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Found more recent info on Q-Branch'es site (thanks Roy) and it appears >the JMS site has been updated since last I looked. > I try to keep it up to date but sometimes I simply forget to do it. >It may just help a few more people to turn up at shows if accurate >information were available in a timely manner at the most obvious place >for it: On the Quanta website. Everyone else could just link to that. > >A couple of things I would find very helpful in this respect would be: > >@ A list of traders who intend to be there This may be a little disheartening really. In essence there are only Jochen, Tony and I. Bill puts in an appearance sometimes but not always. I do usually put a list of traders attending on my show flyer page but I have not done this on this occasion because. I was not sure about Jochen, Marcel and Berndt. As it is neither Marcel nor Berndt can get here so Jochen cannot come either as travelling that far will be too expensive for him alone. Having said that - anyone who wants any of Jochen's stuff or specific updates let me know as soon as possible.
The next QL Today should be available at the show. You can re-subscribe there too as that will be due soon. >@ A list of punters who intend to be there How would they work this out? >@ Show details (presentations, debates, etc) Again these are often hazy and subject to change. At the Hove show you should be able to see: A debate on emulation vs native hardware with myself in satin boxers representing the emulators and Tony Firshman with a bone through his nose leading the charge of the natives. Geoff Wicks' talk - he has not really told me what that will be (if he has changed it from before) Quanta's website demo (I don't recall and can find no email telling me this would happen) A possible talk by Chris Cave about C programming. (I was 'having a moment' before when I said he could not make it. It was Dave Walker whom I asked to do the talk and said he could not come. Chris however seems interested in doing - serendipity I love you! - but has not confirmed/ >@ Mailto links to the persons arranging the dinner, presentations, >volunteers, etc If they are going to do this then it should be a short piece of code with the email address on it and definitely not the mailto link that most Website maker software wants to insert. These just attract spam because the robots are programmed to pick them up. Don't forget dinner at Bom-Banes on Saturday night - booking out fast ! www.bom-banes.co.uk >@ A list of hotels Already published on this list but largely unnecessary because Google will find many more. In the old days, when there were lots of us we could get discounts so a hotel list was valid. No chance here for less than 25 people >@ Directions Usually covered in the mass mailout due soon - but a link to Google maps would help. In this case http://maps.google.com/maphp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8 >@ Any other relevant, accurate and up-to-date information (football >matches, major road works, etc) Would not know about football matches - never seen the point in it myself. Road works change daily > >Regarding the first item, traders who intended to attend could supply >Quanta with links to their own Show Page by a certain date. Done in the mass mailout >Regarding >the second, there could be a facility allowing punters logging on the >the website to (optionally) add their names to the attendance list or to >check if someone they know is coming too.. No a bad idea. > >New users, or old users with new problems, whether they be hardware or >software related, might find it useful to know who can, and are willing >to, offer help and advice on their kind of problem, and whether they are >going to be there on the day. If that were organised rather than left to >chance it might make show attendance more worthwhile..? I think most people who have problems could be helped at a show by one or other of the attendee but having a specific query directed to the organiser before the show might be nice. You could do this with a page on the Quanta website where people could email their problem / query / wishlist and have it posted on an 'electronic pin board'. This could then be emailed to the organiser a week before the show. > >Dreaming is easy, doing is hard, but if no one knows what people want it >certainly wont happen. True. I would like a large sack of fifty pound notes and a couple of shapely ladies of dubious morals - but then given my age and marital status I would settle for a cup of tea and an egg mayonnaise sandwich. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
