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Originally Posted by earthlight
Hi Everyone,
We're having our QLD Astrofest De-brief on Monday night. So we'd appreciate any suggestions that would help make the camp better.
Anne-Louise
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Qld Astrofest was just about perfect in the way it is run. May thanks to Anne-Louise and the Committee.
I am not sure you need any more events - the guest speaker/lecture, the astrotrivia quiz and the Saturday night dinner are all excellent and should be kept. In the early days of Astrofest there was probably too many events when people just want to relax during the day. It is a really good idea for catered meals to be available, it saved the kitchen crush.
There could be more in the way of kids entertainment - maybe DVD or videos at night. Same for the adults if it is cloudy. Maybe a matinee movie session at 2pm, and maybe another at night if cloudy. I don't know how do-able this is. Just a thought.
It is getting a bit crowded. AstroRon's suggestion for expanding the area would be great. Not everyone likes to be constrained by white lines. Some of us want freedom.
The chimney wall in the dining room became a noticeboard (items for sale, lifts required) - maybe this should be formalised.
Kevin Dixon and AstroRon do a great job of introducing people to the sky with their telescopes; as the event becomes bigger and more impersonal, and more beginners and people with a casual interest turn up, maybe this could be formalised into an "introduction to the night sky" type sessions?
Yes it does get messy and I found that I had to take to the broom on a few occassions, but what was frustrating was the lack of cleaning products handy. The sinks in the bathroom needed cleaning, so it would be nice to have a sponge and ajax/bicarb/whatever handy to quickly clean them before and after use. A mop and bucket for the floor for the bathrooms/showers in the bunkhouses.
Anything else need improving?
A softer ground so my tent pegs are not turned into pretzels and my tent peg hammer does not fall apart (many thanks to Gargoyle Steve for lending me his hunk-of-metal-used-to-hammer-in-tent-pegs);
More prizes for me not to win;
lock the gates at night to prevent the randoms driving in;