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2014-09-01T14:45:43Z

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Please let us know what went well and what didn't go well at EMF this year. We really do care about your feedback and we'll try and improve this for next time.

Add your feedback below:

== Good Stuff ==

* Location
* Badges
* Variety of talks
* Showers
* Hand washing facilities
* Parking
* Shuttle trailer to car park

== Stuff that could be improved ==

* Buy more beer! [[User:Russ|Russ]] ([[User talk:Russ|talk]])
* Toilets... 'nuff said! [[User:AndyB|AndyB]] ([[User talk:AndyB|AndyB]])
* More food and drink options
* Survey positions of lanes/tents/DKs as early as possible before items arrive and mark out.--[[User:Sully|Sully]] ([[User talk:Sully|talk]]) 12:06, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
* Make it longer! There was loads of cool stuff I didn't have change to check out :( After all that work everyone does, it was a shame I couldn't experience it all! ([[User:Chewie|Chewie]])
* Visibility of presentations in tents (brighter projectors/darker tents??) ([[User:StuartL]])
* washing points over drains/soakaway so the ground doesn't get muddy ([[User:Chewie|Chewie]])
* Mark out/allocate spaces for villages who had pinpointed locations on maps ([[User:Markp]])
* Use more plasma screens in stages instead of projectors ([[User:Markp]])

==Suggestions==
* A talk (a bit like lightning talks) where people are given 5-10 minutes to share what they did with the previous event's badge. (If someone sends me the competition winners/runners up, I'll co-ordinate it) [[User:MatS|MatS]] ([[User talk:MatS|talk]]) 07:54, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
* Pre-paid accounts for spending money on food/beer/whatever to negate need for cash ([[User:Markp]])
* Have a fleet of communal wheel-barrows to help people transport their stuff from car to campsite

User:RJ

2014-08-07T10:11:12Z

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EMF Arcade Pledge

2014-08-07T10:10:21Z

RJ:

== Have a small arcade at EMF ==

tldr: I was wanting to bring arcades and pinball to EMF. Costs are horrifically expensive. Do people actually want the machines there and is anyone able/willing to help me out?

After getting back from helping [http://http://www.northeastretrogaming.com/ North East Retro Gaming]'s second event ([https://plus.google.com/110911748620153984067/posts/isQP1xLLJk4 Photo's here]), I had the crazy idea of bringing some arcade machines camping with me.

[http://awesomeretro.com/ Awesome Retro] are already bringing a van load of consoles over from the continent, so there's going to be plenty to play with, but I do kinda feel that some dedicated cabs and hopefully a pinball machine or two would be an immense addition.

I have managed to beg and borrow enough machines from friends (mostly the lovely [http://www.retrogamesparty.co.uk/ Retro Games Party] lot) to fill a van, but logistic costs have rapidly gotten out of hand.

I have been looking at using a tail-lift Luton box van, as it's the largest thing available without special license, and I'm hoping to squeeze between 9-12 machines into it.

Renting a van + fuel for the week and hiring a man with a van, both work out about £660 to start in Leeds, head to Bolton to meet RGP and then down to EMF -and back again. The rental van has the downside of not coming with straps, which would potentially be a whole other megillah.

EMF have very kindly to help out with some of the costs, but even with that, I'm still looking at being out of pocket £400 + ticket, which is somewhat out of my budget.

After a [https://lists.emfcamp.org/pipermail/general/2014-August/000197.html very quick post and a couple of replies on the mailing list] it looks like other people think it's a crazy idea, and based on that, it should be done.

'''''I'm asking people to pledge support for this mad plan, and hopefully even some money to help make this happen.'''''

I'll leave off making a decision until the 13th (so that gives us a week) to gather pledges to confirm this is a very silly idea and that I'll actually be able to afford it.
Massive thank you in advance for your support :)

'''Plan:'''
''Shove a minimum of 9 arcade machines and at least 1 pinball into as large a van as I can find and have them all on freeplay for the weekend.''

'''Costings:'''
''£660 - Van + Fuel to get them delivered and collected from site.''

Pledges (please edit to add your support)
* £250 -- EMF Camp Budget
* £100 -- GMC from Awesome Retro
* £ 50 -- JontyW
* £ 20 -- [[user:NAB|NAB]]
* £ 20 -- [[User:JasperWallace|Jasper]]
* £ 20 -- [[User:Jay|James]]
* £ 20 -- [[User:JimM|Jim M]]
* £ 20 -- [[User:w1bble|w1bble]]
* £100 -- [[User:RJ|RJ]]