TARKASTAJAT: Mega-Event ikoni Suurelta Sammakolta
Lähetetty: To 07.10.2010 15:20
Hyvät kätkötarkastajat,
(Edit: klo 0.05 kirjeluonnoksen kieli on tarkistettu!)
Suuren Tampere-tapahtuman markkinointi olisi varsinkin ulkomaille erittäin vaikeaa, jos kätkölistaus voitaisiin julkaista vain 6 kk ennen itse tapahtumaa. Jotta listaus voitaisiin julkaista vielä tämän vuoden puolella, mielellään ennen marraskuun puoliväliä, eventti tarvitsee käsittääkseni mega-luokituksen etukäteen.
GC.comin "Mega-Event Classificationin" perusteella vaikuttaa vahvasti siltä, että ensikertalaisen on työlästä saada statusta etukäteen. Siksi olisi mielestäni erittäin suureksi eduksi, jos yhteyden pääkonttoriin ottaisi joku teistä eikä esim. meikäläinen.
Alla on nopeasti kirjoitettu luonnos hakemuskirjeeksi, jota voi muokata ja hyödyntää. Gandal491 eli tapahtuman designated language reviewer on jo ehtinyt tarkistaa kirjeen kielen.
Tekstissä on joitakuita mutkia oiottu ja se on kirjoitettu "ennakoivaan" tyyliin, eli jokaisesta yksityiskohdasta ei ole vielä vahvistusta. Suomen Ladun tuominen esiin on ennenkaikkea massoista kertova pääkonttorille suunnattu täky.
Jos kalle tai ippi lukevat tätä, niin etukäteen suuri sori, kun pitää "vähätellä" teidän hienon miitin edellyttämiä järjestelyjä.
Dear friends in the Groundspeak HQ,
I am writing to you in order to request a Mega-Event status beforehand for a large geocaching event to be held in Tampere, Finland, in August 2011. It would be extremely difficult to market such a big event especially internationally if the cache listing would be published only 6 months before the event, as is the case with regular event caches.
First and foremost: The Finnish planning and executing teams, including myself, have read the section 6.5. entitled Mega-Event Classifications of the Geocaching Knowledge Book. And we certainly understand the purpose of the policy of not giving a Mega-Event status beforehand to "first-timers".
However, we sincerely hope that you could make an exception in the case of this first Mega-Event to be held in Finland. In case you will make this exception, the cache listing will be submitted for your reviewing right after we've received your positive answer. The title of the cache is "Mega Finland 2011: Geocaching in Tampere, 12 to 14 August".
As a first reference I point out a relatively modest and simple half-day event which was recently organized in Kerava, a small Finnish city:
The SunGear turns 10 -event (GC2DJ8F) was attended by 448 people and the crowd consisted almost solely of Finnish geocachers.
The larger international event will be held in Tampere, the center city of a region of almost 500.000 inhabitants. It will definitely be attended by a far larger number of people than the SunGear event. Tampere is a very active city in Finnish geocaching, as well. There are more than 1000 active geocaches within a radius of twenty miles. For more information concerning the city, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere.
The responsible organization taking care of the event is Geoliikkujat ry., which is a registered association. Therefore it will provide all the necessary economic and judicial background. Geoliikkujat is a member organization of Suomen Latu, the Central Association for Recreational Sports and Outdoor Activities in Finland with more than 75 000 members. The event cache itself will be published under the nick GeoEvent Finland. Probably the Geoliikkujat association will in the near future adopt the nick's name as it is more convenient to be used in international correspondence.
We have already booked a whole camping area with more than one hundred cabins for up to five people each and a medium-sized summer hostel. The Härmälä camping area is situated within walking distance from the heart of the city. Additionally, we have booked rooms for a few hundred people in other locations.
We have also booked all the necessary premises needed for e.g. company and product presentation at the University of Tampere. In addition to the mentioned organizations we'll be cooperating with the major student unions in the Tampere neighborhood as well as with the City of Tampere itself.
Because of all the bookings and reservations we've already made, the dates of the event are firmly settled: from Friday August 12 to Sunday 14, 2011. As was mentioned at the beginning of this request, it would be very difficult to market such an event if the cache listing would be published only half a year before it takes place. Such a short notice would make it near-to impossible for many international cachers to take advantage of this great opportunity and join the Nordic adventure.
The official language of the Mega-Event in Tampere will be English but the essential information will be provided also in Swedish in addition to numerous foreign languages, such as Estonian, Russian and German.
There is also another perspective from which the future of Mega-Events in Finland seem to contradict a bit with the "not for first-timers" policy of Groundspeak. It has been planned that the second annual Mega-Event in Finland will not be organized in Tampere, but rather in another major city with lots of geocaching activities. Therefore all these upcoming events in the near future will be in some senses "first-timers", regardless of the facts that the organizing nick and the association would remain the same and the events would all for sure be attended by far more than 500 people.
As far as the organizing teams are considered, both the Administrative Team and the Executing Team consist mainly of volunteers. Many of us have, however, considerable experience in organizing large international and national business conferences, academic events, and so on.
Hopefully you will take our request into serious consideration and we will soon be celebrating the first Mega-Event Status given to Finland. Please let me know, if you want more information concerning the organizing teams or the program of the event. We'll be more than happy to provide you all the information and assurances you'll need in your decision-making.
On behalf of the organizing teams as well as all the other volunteers I wish you warmly welcomed to Tampere next August! We are all looking forward to meet many Groundspeak people.
With my best regards,
(Edit: klo 0.05 kirjeluonnoksen kieli on tarkistettu!)
Suuren Tampere-tapahtuman markkinointi olisi varsinkin ulkomaille erittäin vaikeaa, jos kätkölistaus voitaisiin julkaista vain 6 kk ennen itse tapahtumaa. Jotta listaus voitaisiin julkaista vielä tämän vuoden puolella, mielellään ennen marraskuun puoliväliä, eventti tarvitsee käsittääkseni mega-luokituksen etukäteen.
GC.comin "Mega-Event Classificationin" perusteella vaikuttaa vahvasti siltä, että ensikertalaisen on työlästä saada statusta etukäteen. Siksi olisi mielestäni erittäin suureksi eduksi, jos yhteyden pääkonttoriin ottaisi joku teistä eikä esim. meikäläinen.
Alla on nopeasti kirjoitettu luonnos hakemuskirjeeksi, jota voi muokata ja hyödyntää. Gandal491 eli tapahtuman designated language reviewer on jo ehtinyt tarkistaa kirjeen kielen.
Tekstissä on joitakuita mutkia oiottu ja se on kirjoitettu "ennakoivaan" tyyliin, eli jokaisesta yksityiskohdasta ei ole vielä vahvistusta. Suomen Ladun tuominen esiin on ennenkaikkea massoista kertova pääkonttorille suunnattu täky.
Jos kalle tai ippi lukevat tätä, niin etukäteen suuri sori, kun pitää "vähätellä" teidän hienon miitin edellyttämiä järjestelyjä.
Dear friends in the Groundspeak HQ,
I am writing to you in order to request a Mega-Event status beforehand for a large geocaching event to be held in Tampere, Finland, in August 2011. It would be extremely difficult to market such a big event especially internationally if the cache listing would be published only 6 months before the event, as is the case with regular event caches.
First and foremost: The Finnish planning and executing teams, including myself, have read the section 6.5. entitled Mega-Event Classifications of the Geocaching Knowledge Book. And we certainly understand the purpose of the policy of not giving a Mega-Event status beforehand to "first-timers".
However, we sincerely hope that you could make an exception in the case of this first Mega-Event to be held in Finland. In case you will make this exception, the cache listing will be submitted for your reviewing right after we've received your positive answer. The title of the cache is "Mega Finland 2011: Geocaching in Tampere, 12 to 14 August".
As a first reference I point out a relatively modest and simple half-day event which was recently organized in Kerava, a small Finnish city:
The SunGear turns 10 -event (GC2DJ8F) was attended by 448 people and the crowd consisted almost solely of Finnish geocachers.
The larger international event will be held in Tampere, the center city of a region of almost 500.000 inhabitants. It will definitely be attended by a far larger number of people than the SunGear event. Tampere is a very active city in Finnish geocaching, as well. There are more than 1000 active geocaches within a radius of twenty miles. For more information concerning the city, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere.
The responsible organization taking care of the event is Geoliikkujat ry., which is a registered association. Therefore it will provide all the necessary economic and judicial background. Geoliikkujat is a member organization of Suomen Latu, the Central Association for Recreational Sports and Outdoor Activities in Finland with more than 75 000 members. The event cache itself will be published under the nick GeoEvent Finland. Probably the Geoliikkujat association will in the near future adopt the nick's name as it is more convenient to be used in international correspondence.
We have already booked a whole camping area with more than one hundred cabins for up to five people each and a medium-sized summer hostel. The Härmälä camping area is situated within walking distance from the heart of the city. Additionally, we have booked rooms for a few hundred people in other locations.
We have also booked all the necessary premises needed for e.g. company and product presentation at the University of Tampere. In addition to the mentioned organizations we'll be cooperating with the major student unions in the Tampere neighborhood as well as with the City of Tampere itself.
Because of all the bookings and reservations we've already made, the dates of the event are firmly settled: from Friday August 12 to Sunday 14, 2011. As was mentioned at the beginning of this request, it would be very difficult to market such an event if the cache listing would be published only half a year before it takes place. Such a short notice would make it near-to impossible for many international cachers to take advantage of this great opportunity and join the Nordic adventure.
The official language of the Mega-Event in Tampere will be English but the essential information will be provided also in Swedish in addition to numerous foreign languages, such as Estonian, Russian and German.
There is also another perspective from which the future of Mega-Events in Finland seem to contradict a bit with the "not for first-timers" policy of Groundspeak. It has been planned that the second annual Mega-Event in Finland will not be organized in Tampere, but rather in another major city with lots of geocaching activities. Therefore all these upcoming events in the near future will be in some senses "first-timers", regardless of the facts that the organizing nick and the association would remain the same and the events would all for sure be attended by far more than 500 people.
As far as the organizing teams are considered, both the Administrative Team and the Executing Team consist mainly of volunteers. Many of us have, however, considerable experience in organizing large international and national business conferences, academic events, and so on.
Hopefully you will take our request into serious consideration and we will soon be celebrating the first Mega-Event Status given to Finland. Please let me know, if you want more information concerning the organizing teams or the program of the event. We'll be more than happy to provide you all the information and assurances you'll need in your decision-making.
On behalf of the organizing teams as well as all the other volunteers I wish you warmly welcomed to Tampere next August! We are all looking forward to meet many Groundspeak people.
With my best regards,
Mutta tosiasia on, että houkuttelevampaa suurimmalle osalle turisteja on juuri stebun korostamat asiat. Mites näin: