What no pistonfest this year
Discussion
EmmaP said:
I'm really sorry to hear that there will be no PistonFest this year as I was a complete newbie last year and knew nobody other than Ace-T, Judas and Rude Girl. It would have been great to put some faces to names and practice staying vertical this year 
I understand Ted's point of view. It must have been incredibly difficult to organise. Looking forward to 2006 now!
Good to see that the rest of us made such an impact!
Personally I think Ted should be praised for pulling the plug. If HE is not happy with it, then it is the right thing to do...
)Running events takes it's toll and requires inordinate amount of efforts.
I can tell you that if we didn't have to due to market pressures we would downsize by 10+ people by not running events, and that's even with a multi-million marketing budget and everything outsourced.
Ted - thanks for the events so far, and as you say, we are hardly "dry" of other things to do this year!
With your new little one around, the last thing you need is to be stranded in a cold field somewhere arguing the toss about the finer details of loo roll
. I'll paitently wait for whatever turns up.
J
I can tell you that if we didn't have to due to market pressures we would downsize by 10+ people by not running events, and that's even with a multi-million marketing budget and everything outsourced.
Ted - thanks for the events so far, and as you say, we are hardly "dry" of other things to do this year!
With your new little one around, the last thing you need is to be stranded in a cold field somewhere arguing the toss about the finer details of loo roll
. I'll paitently wait for whatever turns up. J
gemini said:Try typing google into this natty search engine.
Whats Google?
http://tinyurl.co.uk/vmaw
J
joust said:
Whats Google?
Try typing google into this natty search engine.
http://tinyurl.co.uk/vmaw
J
I did
and when I clicked on the relevant hit all that happened was I went back to the beginnning
The thing I find so amusing and ironic is that the first PistonFest was just a camping and beer thing. And everyone bitched and moaned and complained about it.
PF'04 was so much more organised and almost ruined Ted and gave him an early coronary into the bargain and people still bitched and moaned and complained about it.
So Ted thinks "sod it" and doesn't have a PH05 and everyone bitches and moans and complains about it and talks about doing something that looks and feels very much like PH'03.
Can't please anyone.
PF'04 was so much more organised and almost ruined Ted and gave him an early coronary into the bargain and people still bitched and moaned and complained about it.
So Ted thinks "sod it" and doesn't have a PH05 and everyone bitches and moans and complains about it and talks about doing something that looks and feels very much like PH'03.
Can't please anyone.
JonRB said:I must have been on another planet when this was going on. I got the distinct impression everyone found PF03 to be exactly what we needed, me included. I honestly don't recall a single complaint and I enjoyed it so much I bought my PF04 ticket the day it was launched, hoping for a repeat event.
The thing I find so amusing and ironic is that the first PistonFest was just a camping and beer thing. And everyone bitched and moaned and complained about it.
tvrbob said:
I got the distinct impression everyone found PF03 to be exactly what we needed, me included. I honestly don't recall a single complaint...
Not the case. However, it's all a learning experience and some of the complaints were valid observations so I don't begrudge that.
At the end of the day I couldn't put together an event this year that I would be happy with so there ain't one.
When I work out a new plan that has all the right ingredients I'll do it again. That won't be this year.
No matter how simple it may appear to attendees, events are complex things to lay on - all manner of things go on behind the scenes that you don't see - good, bad, time consuming, stressful, worrying, infuriating, costly, etc. etc. etc.
Even the simplest events can take a lot of time to organise - time which can distract from other projects or core activities. My business is based on a business model revolving around web based activities. Extending it to the real world is a whole different ball game.
PetrolTed said:Ted, OK but I recon with the benefit of hindsight that those who complained after PF03 didn't bother buying tickets for PF04. On the other hand those who really enjoyed PF03 did buy tickets for PF04. Problem is that PF04 was re-engineered to satisfy the PF03 complainers who ultimately didn't bother to attend PF04. As you know those who did attend PF04 wanted to spend time mingling and making their own entertainment.
I got the distinct impression everyone found PF03 to be exactly what we needed, me included. I honestly don't recall a single complaint...
These are your core people. I know many of them get to go to BT&P but some of us aren't able to make it to BT&P so end up with nothing.
p.s. I'm half way through the second bottle of Rioja so please forgive me for being a little over passionate about this.
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