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in reply to: No press coverage this year? #50478
@Little Bear wrote:
The Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH) ran an article about the FOT48 on Thursday or Friday (I can’t remember which date) before the event.
If you can find the article (you are the second to tell me about it) and let me know which day, that’d be great. I’m searching online for it, but in vain.
-Stephen
in reply to: No press coverage this year? #50474@Greg wrote:
I haven’t been able to find any articles related to this year’s event which kind of surprises me. Has anyone else seen anything?
I ran out of time. I stated early on that I wouldn’t be able to run the press releases this year, and they never got picked up by anyone. I got some releases out in the last week, but it was too late to make it into any papers prior to the event.
-Stephen
in reply to: Time to pay the piper #50394@LOMU wrote:
How about keeping it on a volunteer basis like it was first started as? This looks like it’s forming into a business venture rather than a solemn remembrance event.
Are you willing to help pay to keep the site up? Otherwise we can relegate this back to a thread on another website.
Even the most solemn remembrance comes at a price and has overhead. Someone has to pay for the logistics. For this year it’s come for the most part out of my pocket, with a little help from a couple other folks.
I’m not in a place to shell out the full amount this year. I wish I were, but I’m not. Sorry.
My request for donations is so that we will not become a business venture. I’m not looking for compensation for the many hours we (the admin team) spend designing, programming and maintaining the site. I would just like to see the financial impact be minimal.
If you feel that this desire is greedy or a “venture” then I’ll happily set it down and allow someone more “giving” to take it over.
-Stephen
in reply to: Time to pay the piper #50390@Outtabreath wrote:
I would have no problem donating or sponsoring or whatever is needed to keep it going $100 or $200. I would rather not have a registration fee for climbing the mountain.
No fears there… it was just an idea, but probably not one we’d see happen, to charge per peak.
-Stephen
in reply to: How much did you spend? #50404I spent about $15 (including tip) and stuck with root beers, thanks to the long ride home.
Gotta stay local next year so I can sample the local brews.
-Stephen
in reply to: Time to pay the piper #50381@rbhayes wrote:
We would be happy to make a donation, but another idea we have is:
What about seeking out a sponsor to cover the costs of the Web Space and a banner that could be used for planning meetings and the Post event gathering. Companies that come to mind are ski companies, hiking related companies (REI, EMS, etc..) $500 a year would be cheap advertising dollars for them.
We’ll have to wait a few weeks to get an idea of our stats and the views that the company could expect.
Our renewal will come up before then. But this is a good thought.
The drawback is the fear that the event would start to be commercialized. Of course, if the reader of that statement has that fear, the good news is that they have an opportunity to avoid all that by donating, right? :flag:
-Stephen
in reply to: Time to pay the piper #50379What I had in mind was something tiered, kind of like this:
$5 – mention on supporter’s page
$10 – Forwarded e-mail address
$20 – Pop3 e-mail address, 10 MB storage
$30- Pop3 e-mail address, 20 MB storage
$50- pop3 e-mail address, 50 MB storage, FTP access
$75 or more- same as $50 plus http://yourname.flagsonthe48.org sitein reply to: Feedback FOT48 – 2004 #50323If this group grows again… me thinks we will need to find something more accomodating.
Maybe we should start looking now!
-Stephen
in reply to: Site Traffic #50368@MichaelJ wrote:
How’s the web site traffic been since the event?
The stats are run every Sunday. MJ, I PM’d you the link for you to peruse. Feel free to summarize it here if you’d like.
THe interesting thing is that the traffic dropped by 50% on the 11th. Probably because we were all on the peaks then at the grill. But the traffic on Sunday the 12th was up 30% from the traffic on Friday the 10th.
10th: 25676 hits
11th: 12832 hits
12th: 33477 hitsIt should also be noted that traffic the week leading up to the 11th was twice what it had been for the prior weeks.
More to come this Sunday…
-Stephen
in reply to: Website Updates #50015I have renamed some albums so they match the names in the Peaks List. I’m hoping to add links from the peaks lists to the galleries.
I’ve also reordered the galleries alphabetically. First the 48 will be listed, followed by other peaks, followed by the Mooseland, followed by any other pertinent albums.
-Stephen
in reply to: Passaconaway #50217@Passaconaway Team wrote:
Ned, Becky, Ted and Laurie flew the flag on Passaconaway. What a wonderful
day!!
Will forward pictures from north outlook as soon as possible.
Ned lugged a powerful telescope on hike and we were able to see flags on
Monroe, Carrigain and Garfield.
Sorry we missed the party.
Fill us in on the celebration.
Ned and Becky
God Bless America!!in reply to: Instructions for Posting 2004 FOT48 Images #50339@MichaelJ wrote:
Thanks, Greg. I had PM’d Stephen earlier with exactly that question. You beat him to it.
🙂No, I asked him to do it. 🙂
Seriously, VERY busy day today folks, so I may not respond to everyone. But we’ve posted the gallery instructions, and Greg will create a Trip Report topic as well.
-Stephen
in reply to: Summit Sign #50305in reply to: Mooseland Grill Tally 2004 #49933Has anyone told the grill yet? A quick glance of page 3 of this threads shows about 100 people coming by over the course of the evening.
-Stephen
in reply to: Flag Folding and Ceremony #50301@Outtabreath wrote:
For anyone interested, Here is a link to properly folding your flag, as well as a Flag folding ceremony and what each fold means.
http://www.usflag.org/fold.flag.html#FFCWhile noble, this is an urban legend.
@Snopes.com wrote:
The American flag isn’t folded in this manner because the thirteen folds correspond to the original thirteen states, or because the folding produces a shape resembling a cocked hat, or because each of the folds has a special symbolic meaning. The flag is folded this way simply because it provides a dignified ceremonial touch that distinguishes folding a flag from folding an ordinary object such as a bedsheet, and because it results a visually pleasing, easy-to-handle shape. That this process requires thirteen folds is coincidental, not the product of design.
You can read more about it at:
http://www.snopes.com/military/flagfold.htm-Stephen
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