[Coco] CoCo Fest video and chat

Mon May 1 15:31:23 EDT 2006

George,

Darn it.. I forgot this reason...Location.

Chicago is centrally located and the REAL reason... Is that they have a 
club that works on the scheduling, booking and all of the details that 
need to be done.

So unless you want to do all of that work and layout all of the needed 
cash to make it happen. I doubt it would be in your location. If you 
could fund it....By the time you accounted for the time and cash you 
laid out...It would be cheaper to drive/fly to Chicago.

They are free classes out there for financial planning. :)

Regards,

Mark

Quoting George's Coco Address <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>:

> Very well said.
>
> I wish I could come. San Antonio is just too far away. I only make 
> $8/hr and I just simply can't manage to save a penny for ANYTHING. If 
> I could drive over there during the day and have time to visit, then 
> I would.
> By golly, do it next year in San Antonio or Austin, I'll be there. 
> PROMISE! I could even make as far as Houston, because I have family 
> there where I could put up for a weekend. Dallas/Ft.Worth is too far 
> and no friends or family there.
> In San Antonio, there is the River Walk. A great place to visit in 
> the evenings.
>
> George
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Marlette" Sent: Monday, May 
> 01, 2006 1:34 PM
>
>
>> I'm sure there will be a fest report to follow. I would like to add, 
>> and I know I'll get flamed for this but...it is true.
>>
>> More people need to attend this once of a year function. Without it 
>> we would have less if anything. Is it a cheap event to attend? No. 
>> Is it worth while? Without a doubt.
>>
>> There are an endless number of excuses on why one could not make it. 
>> Some indicate money, schedule conflicts, etc. All valid at some 
>> point in time but after 25yrs, people that have never attend a fest, 
>> that means it is not a priority.
>>
>> Money issue...Most all of being adults or seniors now :) Can plan 
>> for the once a year event. Putting a little money aside each, week 
>> month what ever gets you there. Even if you can't put away enough 
>> money to attend every year then attend every other year or what ever 
>> works.
>>
>> Conflicts..They do happen. Glenside has done a good job scheduling 
>> these events so that they don't happen on the same weekend every 
>> year. You might not be able to attend every year but should be able 
>> to get to them, if it is a priority.
>>
>> The web cam is OK for people overseas or the ones that don't not 
>> attend every year. It seems there is emphasis put on this technology 
>> so that people don't have to attend. Believe me the web cam is 
>> nothing like being there.
>>
>> Glenside..Thanks again for putting on the fest again in 2006. I'm 
>> sure it is a drain on resources. You try to recover some of the 
>> costs but as indicated this year, prices are going up. This means 
>> that more people need to attend to help out the community. Another 
>> is membership. I'm not going to go over the figures that Gator 
>> announced Sunday afternoon, I'll let Glenside do that. I can say 
>> that is something to be VERY proud of! This shows that the people 
>> that are present are committed to the CoCo and the event. Hats off 
>> to all that made to Elgin and reup'd their dues.
>>
>> Next year? Jury is still out. I can say that it was VERY enjoyable 
>> to see new products out. Roy's VGA, Chris Hawks's S-Video and CD 
>> file manager, Carl England's Backup Magic program. I bought one of 
>> each from all of the new product vendors. Many did and on the 
>> hardware side, I believe they all sold out of product.
>>
>> Goes to show ya, there is a CoCo market. Many indicate that there 
>> isn't. Boisy and I can tell you that there is. The vendors that sold 
>> out of their products at the fest will say the same. So come 
>> on....lets see some products.
>>
>> Cloud-9 had little sales this year at the fest do to inventory being 
>> sold out. It was like a much needed vacation this year for me. It 
>> was great to walk around and see others booths and products. 
>> Something I hardly ever get to do there. I also indicated that 
>> hardware sales would not start back up until the SuperBoard is 
>> completed. So we are in a holding pattern on hardware sales. Boisy 
>> will be updating our home page to indicate that software sales are 
>> going to resume and be handled by him. SuperBoard will continue to 
>> be developed, please don't ask, you will know, I won't be silent 
>> about... :)
>>
>> Closing....More people need to attend, bottom line. More planning 
>> needs to go into getting people there, advertising of the event 
>> other than this list. A published event schedule prior to the fest, 
>> seminars, notable people, etc.
>>
>> Flame me all you want, it wouldn't be the first time. In this case 
>> action of the fest attendees do speak louder than the words.......
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark
>> Cloud-9
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> uoting Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com>:
>>
>>> Roger, Roy, Justin, and others:
>>>
>>> Thanks for putting this together for those of us who couldn't make it.
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>> http://www.miba51.com/
>>> http://www.cloudymidnights.com/
>>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:50:58 -0500
>>>  Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:
>>>> Well, for the second year we've managed to pull off some 
>>>> last-minute miracles and come up with a webcam feed from the Last 
>>>> Annual Chicaco CoCo Fest.
>>>>
>>>> This year we missed Saturday alltogether due to connection 
>>>> problems but much to my surprise when I got up this morning 
>>>> (Sunday) there appeared to be some attempts from the fest at 
>>>> uploading cam pictures to the coco3.com server.  When I checked 
>>>> the last image out it was definately a shot from the fest floor, 
>>>> so I went to work right away setting up the CoCo Cafe to display 
>>>> these images.  For a while they weren't updating for long periods 
>>>> of time, but all of a sudden things started coming together.
>>>>
>>>> So, before the day was wasted we managed to build up some 14+ 
>>>> chatters at a time in the CoCo Cafe complete with an updating 
>>>> picture from the fest floor.  Ofcourse, the images had to be 
>>>> repainted over a blank background due to how the chat system 
>>>> refreshes the web page, so the fest images had to "ride along" as 
>>>> a static image on the page and get updated whenever the page did.  
>>>> Since the cam rate and the chat rate were about the same, I didn't 
>>>> bother putting in any fancy JavaScript to make the image refresh 
>>>> while the chat page was idle, but I could have. I'll save that for 
>>>> the next event that comes along with a cam feed.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, right now the cam is still going and it looks like those 
>>>> guys are cleaning up and stuff, so if you wanna catch it before 
>>>> they turn the cam off, here's the link:
>>>>
>>>> http://chat.coco3.com
>>>>
>>>> Night, all.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Roger Taylor
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