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Caching => Caching Events => Topic started by: Griff Grof on August 26, 2015, 12:19:31 pm

Title: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on August 26, 2015, 12:19:31 pm
http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/08/giff-weekend-2015/ (http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/08/giff-weekend-2015/)

Sounds like a good idea. Would anyone be willing to organise one?
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on August 26, 2015, 09:33:17 pm
You would need a hall and access to a projector.

I should have already seen it in Seattle but it rained all day and by the evening, there was no-way they could hold the out door event, so it got cancel :(


PS When the notification first came out I noticed a mistake, they had the 19th or the 26th Oct that the event had to be published by :o I let them know and see they have now corrected it but no message back saying thank you :( In fact my comment has now been deleted  :P
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on August 30, 2015, 09:28:38 pm
Have access to a projector  :)

Don't think I'll have time to organise an event around then though  :(

But happy to help (e.g with the projector) if someone else wants to  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Gackt on August 31, 2015, 06:28:06 am
Wonder if Groundspeak are looking for people to arrange large events to be allowed to download and show the films? If you have a projector and have about 10 people that might come and watch they may not be so enthusiastic to let the films be downloaded compared to hiring a hall and having 100+ people coming to watch.

With larger events such as that other complications like public liability insurance may come in to play. If kept small and uncomplicated I would be happy to help out where I could.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on August 31, 2015, 10:46:33 am
What I don't like is:

Quote
If Geocaching HQ determines your event meets the requirements for GIFF Weekend, you will be provided with the file containing the GIFF 2015 film reel and your event will be added to HQ’s bookmark list of GIFF Weekend Events. If your event is not approved by Geocaching HQ, you will be notified. We recommend you then notify your guests that you will not be showing the GIFF 2015 films.

So, you have gone to the trouble to find a venue, organise the event, sort out the equipment and then GS say no :(
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on September 02, 2015, 09:16:45 am
Hmm hadn't noticed that, that's not good  :-\

I think an event in this area in the right venue would potentially attract 30-50 people - especially if there's not another one nearby.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on September 02, 2015, 10:07:07 am
If our new hall (http://www.urvh.org/) was open (it might be by then), I would be tempted to organise the event with a small entrance charge to cover the hire of the hall. It can easily seat 100 but don't think we've got 100 chairs!
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on September 02, 2015, 11:40:21 am
Wow, fantastic village hall @walktall (just looking at the photos)

That would be a great idea - could possibly add some chairs, but not many  :D.

Think the small entrance charge wouldn't be a problem, if anything it would make it seem like more of a 'cinema' event.  :D.

Could get popcorn etc too  ;D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on September 27, 2015, 10:21:48 am
Good too see some UK entries :)

Here is the list of finalist films, geocacher names and countries they’re from, and order they screen in:

Saturday
HurricaneJuan (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=5cadcb4c-a0b8-4d7a-afd5-84581db9908b)
Florida, United States

Travel Bug Story
Chiliconsushi (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=7f9eb23a-b57a-4471-b94f-7d43f0f77e11)
Québec, Canada

GeocahINg Xisto
Natty_Zé (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=17df9371-fbc9-46b9-b6c4-0df585a3e213)
Aveiro, Portugal

THE BEST GEOCACHING FILM OF ALL TIME EVER!
CarboKnightLuke (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=956912ef-3511-452f-98d5-a4a22394e247)
Cornwall, United Kingdom

12 Tips on Geocaching
G.I.C. (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=e6767bba-2cdf-4113-8417-84ca728ebc63)
Hanoi, Vietnam

Why We Geocache
Zaise (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=ac3fc8d0-0aaa-483d-972e-7f8b1371e2eb)
California, United States

Geocaching Infomercial
gasgoose (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=b953b2b2-ffa1-4dfa-a2bc-843179d45ce6)
Wyoming, United States

GCTransAlps – Aint No Mountain High Enough
MudMen_GER (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=4c1c35c6-3799-4f99-a262-578b17ddbc0a)
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Geo-Caching Freak
Team Motherfarmer (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=57d0b8cc-ce8d-46de-943b-729d0cfab771)
British Columbia, Canada

Geocaching Adventure in Hakodate
moramora1 (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=b5b06c29-fc75-4c66-9351-efd89d0d9963)
Osaka, Japan

The Future of Geocaching
Chrishutchy (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=18255af0-ded7-4004-9d6b-fd037c5cbdaf)
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

Adventure
TheNinjaTJ (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=b4edf4e3-1e5e-46ed-8ad3-f6cc6c0682de)
Northampton, United Kingdom

Signal
iepu09 (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=9d999b0a-93b0-4549-aabb-f234f3a65d08)
Bucharest, Romania

Geoman
Lat&Long Junkie (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=07941c9f-3250-48ee-a0dd-94cc75f5308c) and PigWig2 (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=faebf4a8-944d-40f1-b94f-b15dc0f753b0)
Queensland, Australia

Geolove
Hoochie Coochie Man (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=f26aa5b4-911a-4cdf-8c06-a2e42ff013a4)
Maltepe, Turkey

How to Geocache like a Ballerina
stingrayabbray (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=7b5744e4-f15c-4119-8385-0691bab73bc3)
California, United States


This list was from: 6 Tips for Hosting a GIFF Weekend Event (http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/09/tips-for-hosting-a-giff-weekend-event/)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on September 27, 2015, 05:41:58 pm
That's good, some interesting titles :)

Now I want to see them :D

Any advances on the possibility of organising one?
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on October 06, 2015, 08:11:56 pm
There will be a souvenir for GIFF events now  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on October 06, 2015, 09:53:13 pm
I noticed. Been looking at halls but could use the current (old) hall at Upper Rissington but it's not very good.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on October 07, 2015, 05:29:12 pm
Ok  :)

Will the new hall not be ready on time then?
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on October 08, 2015, 09:42:54 am
Ok  :)

Will the new hall not be ready on time then?

It's been ready since the 9th March :o :o :o but between the developers and the Parish Council, it's still not open and at the moment, the light at the end of the tunnel isn't getting any closer >:(
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on October 14, 2015, 12:44:07 am
Right I'm going to bite the bullet as they say, this is what I'm going to do:

What is GIFF Weekend?
GIFF Weekend is your chance to watch the entire reel of the 16 finalist films
from the 2015 Geocaching International Film Festival. This was rained off in
Seattle at the Block Party, so is the first Global screening of the films over
the 5th to 8th November.

How long is the GIFF 2015 film reel?
The entire film reel is approximately one hour long.

And remember, you will earn a souvenir for attending a registered GIFF Weekend Event.


EVENT DETAILS:
When: 8th November 2015 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Where: Village Hall, Hawker Square, Upper Rissington GL54 2NT

Film show will start at 5:30pm PROMPT

There will be tea and coffee available and a donation box, as there was a cost in
hiring the hall. This is in line with Groundspeak Guidelines and any donation is
totally voluntary. Any excess, will be donated to a local registered
charity.

IMPORTANT:
Maximum seating capacity is 40. So it is first come, first served, if
there is that level of interest.
When logging Will Attend, please state how many seats you wish to book. If
for any reason you find you can not attend, please let us know so we can offer
the place(s) to someone else. Thank you.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on October 14, 2015, 07:54:54 am
Quote
Right I'm going to bite the bullet as they say, this is what I'm going to do:

What is GIFF Weekend?
GIFF Weekend is your chance to watch the entire reel of the 16 finalist films
from the 2015 Geocaching International Film Festival. This was rained off in
Seattle at the Block Party, so is the first Global screening of the films over
the 5th to 8th November.

How long is the GIFF 2015 film reel?
The entire film reel is approximately one hour long.

And remember, you will earn a souvenir for attending a registered GIFF Weekend Event.


EVENT DETAILS:
When: 8th November 2015 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Where: Village Hall, Hawker Square, Upper Rissington GL54 2NT

Film show will start at 5:30pm PROMPT

There will be tea and coffee available and a donation box, as there was a cost in
hiring the hall. This is in line with Groundspeak Guidelines and any donation is
totally voluntary. Any excess, will be donated to a local registered
charity.

IMPORTANT:
Maximum seating capacity is 40. So it is first come, first served, if
there is that level of interest.
When logging Will Attend, please state how many seats you wish to book. If
for any reason you find you can not attend, please let us know so we can offer
the place(s) to someone else. Thank you.

That's good. I'll bring some popcorn  :D

Before you submit - the projector I had access to was at my dad's work and now that he's away it may be harder to get hold of it. I can try, and probably should before we submit, unless anyone else perhaps has easier access to one?

I'll try and see if I can sort it by the end of today.

EDIT: Should be fine and my dad is back by then anyway
  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on October 14, 2015, 10:15:04 am
Submitted :)

(http://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/e72cbc09-fc61-4abd-aaca-ab6c462c9e3a.jpg)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: Griff Grof on October 14, 2015, 11:09:12 am
Like the graphic  ;D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event?
Post by: walktall on October 14, 2015, 02:46:48 pm
and the Event has been published :)

CW & CC goes to the flicks - GIFF Weekend 2015 (http://coord.info/GC6530F)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 16, 2015, 10:42:13 am
And now the GIFF Event has got "Official Approval" and has been added to the GIFF Weekend 2015 Bookmark List (http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=ffa9accc-ad91-46ee-926f-b88ac82115c0)

Don't forget your popcorn :)

Tweaked the graphic as well :)
(https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/e0012d82-fb08-4e81-905c-61b384ccf349_l.jpg)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 16, 2015, 04:08:44 pm
That's good  :)

The event has already got a good number of Will Attends, promising!

Oh, and the graphic is even better now!  :D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 18, 2015, 06:20:16 pm
17 seats booked so far  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 18, 2015, 09:17:37 pm
and looks like we will have a feast as well :)

Offers of: "4 large popcorns, 4 hot dogs and 2 Pepsi", "some cake or other edibles", "Will bring cakes", "bacon butties" & "bring some cake" ;)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Gackt on October 20, 2015, 11:54:11 am
Going to be difficult for me to get to this, hence part of the reason moving the next bi-monthly CC event to the following week. But I would like to, will talk with the other half later if we cross paths before one or other of us is asleep  :-\

Does the hall have a projector setup, or do you have that in hand?
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 20, 2015, 04:03:17 pm
Ah, it would be a shame if you weren't there for the first joint CW & CC event! Hopefully you can make it! @Gackt

Does the hall have a projector setup, or do you have that in hand?

Good question - @walktall?
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 20, 2015, 04:49:06 pm
The hall has no projector or screen but I've been offered, so hence I went ahead with this event :)

Depending on how many book, depends on how I set up the hall - just chairs or small tables & chairs and if I open the bar counter for all the food that's been offered :)

Most likely, will need to move the heavy wooden tables out, as they take up too much room. I'll have the hall from about 4:30pm (could be earlier) and will have it at least 30minutes after the event officially finishes, so no rush for people to go if they don't want to.

(http://i910.photobucket.com/albums/ac310/rissi_david/Our%20Village/Bar%20Hall_zpsxbkb6iu6.jpg)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 20, 2015, 09:15:04 pm
I can arrive a little earlier to help sort everything out if you want.  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Gackt on October 21, 2015, 09:57:06 am
It looks like a great venue. It looks like it is of a similar size with and facilities as Quenington Village Hall, of which I enquired about holding an event at, but Quennington had too high a hire charge which put me off.

www.queningtonvillagehall.org.uk/page3.htm (http://www.queningtonvillagehall.org.uk/page3.htm)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 27, 2015, 10:33:18 am
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PS When the notification first came out I noticed a mistake, they had the 19th or the 26th Oct that the event had to be published by :o I let them know and see they have now corrected it but no message back saying thank you :( In fact my comment has now been deleted  :P

I see any date to apply to host a GIFF, has been removed from the blog and form. Just normal Event rules and it must be already published to apply.

I wonder if this is due to the fact that, currently (as I write this), there are only 440 Official GIFF Events in the whole World :o and it was only at 281 on the 16th October :o :o

Think adding the souvenir on the 6th October, was a way to try and bump up the numbers.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 27, 2015, 09:05:26 pm
That's interesting @walktall.

Really looking forward to this one, seats are going quickly  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 30, 2015, 11:04:52 pm
Well that's not a good start, got about half the file (2.1GB) and then:

(http://i910.photobucket.com/albums/ac310/rissi_david/Geocaching/GS%20GIFF%20download_zpsyvi2wiib.jpg)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on October 31, 2015, 09:59:26 am
Oh no  :o

Keep us posted on progress!
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on October 31, 2015, 12:15:48 pm
GS had a rethink and are currently only allowing standard resolution to be downloaded and have now provided a Google drive account to get it from. The dropbox account is still disabled  :o

Finally, third time lucky, got the standard resolution 4.3GB mp4 file, only 3 & a quarter hours to download :o :o
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on November 03, 2015, 05:11:03 pm
That's good  :)

Looking forward to it, just a few more days to go!  ;D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on November 04, 2015, 01:07:15 am
Film runs OK, now having watched it.

As of now, only 5 seats left :)

@Griff Grof:
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on November 05, 2015, 06:47:00 pm
By my count, there are two seats remaining.

I can be there for 4:30 to help if you want  :) - will try to bring the projector along as a spare just in case  :)

PS - was what you saw good? Or are your lips sealed?  :D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on November 05, 2015, 09:41:40 pm
I've got it as 36, so 4 seats left as of this post.


Some work has been done on the video clips, some clever ideas. Main thing I notice is the quality of the sound is more varied.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Hogshunters on November 07, 2015, 12:47:12 pm
Looking forward to tomorrow, cake and popcorn made.
Shame about the weather - we had hoped to do Grif Grofs Westcote Wander series, but have decided the ground will probably be too wet, so will have to put it of for another day.
Walk Tall do you need more help to set things out? We could aim to get there for 4.30 if yes. Jenny :).
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on November 07, 2015, 11:38:53 pm
That will be handy if you can Hogshunters, as my first aim is to make sure screen/projector/sound/film are all set up :) The hall is booked from 4:15pm.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on November 08, 2015, 09:21:59 am
All being well, will be arriving a earlier as well with the spare projector (just in case), so will help you setting up.  :)

Looking forward to it ;D
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Hogshunters on November 08, 2015, 09:38:04 am
That's fine we'll be there 4.15/30 to help.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Griff Grof on November 08, 2015, 09:31:25 pm
Great event, really enjoyed it, thanks for organising it @walktall  :)

Next up, Twixmas/Twinew  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Hogshunters on November 09, 2015, 06:34:33 pm
As Griff Grof  has said a good event - many thanks to Walk Tall for organising it.

Looking forward to the next event -Twixmas/Twinew Jenny  :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: walktall on November 09, 2015, 10:25:13 pm
Glad people enjoyed it, as you know, there was a bit of hassle with the films themselves but worth it in the end.

Would I do it again 2016 (if it happens), yes :) but would people come again? :o

(https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/48ab2813-e477-4d5d-8f58-25e7fca8bfd2_l.jpg)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: Hogshunters on November 10, 2015, 09:21:48 am
Yes we would  attend :)
Title: Re: CacheWalker GIFF event
Post by: tarmacjohn on November 10, 2015, 03:59:31 pm
I would be there........to watch my video