Unforutunately, the posts for the original version of this thread were lost in the database crash, so I will attempt to summarize what has already been proposed. I'll do what I can to accurately represent this information to the best of my recollection. If I misrepresent any ideas or fail to bring up some points that were discussed, please help me fill in the blanks for anything that may be missing.
First a little catch up:
The poll for the Date for the January Wrinkles Dive ended with a Decision for January 29th.
The final tally for the date of the Wrinkles Dive was 19 votes for January 29th with a few other dates coming in tied with 15 votes. There were some posts lost at the end of that thread and the votes are no longer complete, since the poll reverted back to an old version from a backup.
New issues to discuss:
Many people have expressed an interest in possibly having a fixed rotating schedule of locations. This way we would already know what the location was well in advance. This would more easily allow people to plan ahead if we were going to dive a location that required any travel on the part of some members.
The idea of "weighting" locations was also being discussed. Areas with more ScubaBoard members in them would be visited more often because they are closer to the most ScubaBoard members. According to the SoCal Roll Call this is what our current SoCal membership numbers look like by county:
===== Total Members in SoCal (103) =====
- San Luis Obispo County (2)
- Santa Barbara County (5)
- Ventura County (6)
- Los Angeles County (39)
- Orange County (23)
- San Bernardino County (6)
- Riverside County (3)
- San Diego County (19)
The counties of Imperial, Inyo and Kern are not included because we currently don't have any members on the list in those locations. Obviously, only the counties that are actually on the coast would be included in the rotation.
There were some concerns expressed concerning weighting, but we were just starting to brainstorm about what the best system might look like.
I was suggested that we could have a system where we might put locations on a 5 month rotation. The first 4 months we could rotate through San Diego, Orange County, LA County and Catalina. In the 5th month, we would rotate in a more distant location where less members reside or a boat dive. The idea here is that we don't exclude anyone, while making it as fair and equitable as possible for everyone in SoCal.
It has also been suggested that we simply continue to rotate between San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles Counties. People in "outlying areas" would just travel to these centers of population until they had more people participating in their own areas. Then those areas would be included in the rotation in the future.
I've tried to get this information together as quickly as possible this morning and am still a bit groggy from the cold medicine that I'm taking. Please forgive me if any of this is unclear or inaccurate.
Thanks for helping to make the already fantastic Wrinkles Dives even better in the future.
Christian
First a little catch up:
The poll for the Date for the January Wrinkles Dive ended with a Decision for January 29th.
The final tally for the date of the Wrinkles Dive was 19 votes for January 29th with a few other dates coming in tied with 15 votes. There were some posts lost at the end of that thread and the votes are no longer complete, since the poll reverted back to an old version from a backup.
New issues to discuss:
Many people have expressed an interest in possibly having a fixed rotating schedule of locations. This way we would already know what the location was well in advance. This would more easily allow people to plan ahead if we were going to dive a location that required any travel on the part of some members.
The idea of "weighting" locations was also being discussed. Areas with more ScubaBoard members in them would be visited more often because they are closer to the most ScubaBoard members. According to the SoCal Roll Call this is what our current SoCal membership numbers look like by county:
===== Total Members in SoCal (103) =====
- San Luis Obispo County (2)
- Santa Barbara County (5)
- Ventura County (6)
- Los Angeles County (39)
- Orange County (23)
- San Bernardino County (6)
- Riverside County (3)
- San Diego County (19)
The counties of Imperial, Inyo and Kern are not included because we currently don't have any members on the list in those locations. Obviously, only the counties that are actually on the coast would be included in the rotation.
There were some concerns expressed concerning weighting, but we were just starting to brainstorm about what the best system might look like.
I was suggested that we could have a system where we might put locations on a 5 month rotation. The first 4 months we could rotate through San Diego, Orange County, LA County and Catalina. In the 5th month, we would rotate in a more distant location where less members reside or a boat dive. The idea here is that we don't exclude anyone, while making it as fair and equitable as possible for everyone in SoCal.
It has also been suggested that we simply continue to rotate between San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles Counties. People in "outlying areas" would just travel to these centers of population until they had more people participating in their own areas. Then those areas would be included in the rotation in the future.
I've tried to get this information together as quickly as possible this morning and am still a bit groggy from the cold medicine that I'm taking. Please forgive me if any of this is unclear or inaccurate.
Thanks for helping to make the already fantastic Wrinkles Dives even better in the future.
Christian
