July 2018 Editorial on Open Days and attendance

[MickT]

This all seems to be going into overkill. All the events that are on Stan's original list and the ones I added are listed on the Society website diary and also appear in the News diary - PROVIDED the organisers have submitted their information to the relevant people for publication on both website and in the News - again all listed on how to do it, when and what information is requested in the diary section of the News and in the website. MOST but not all organisers of the specific NG events also publish in the commercial press diaries, particularly in RM. The 7mm NGA also has its own diary of events published on its own website (open to public) and in Narrow Lines.

[Stan Williams]

Mick,

Are you working nights ??   e-mail at  1.15am ?

Does counting sheep work ?

Stan.

[Chris Ford]

BTW why wasn't our show in August in the Diary at the end of the News? It's in the online diary!! ;)

To answer this very last question. The Diary section is simply copy/ pasted from the online version and due to the print schedule is probably put in up to six weeks before members receive the News. There is therefore a cock-up window available in that if your show goes online between these two points it'll disappear. This basically means that shows need to be in reasonably early to JJ for them to appear in the print version. Hence the advice at the foot of the diary page to check the online as a back up. This sort of timeframe is usual in print media i.e. RM requires a Sept 1st deadline for exhibitions for the November issue, so vaguely similar.