First Anniversary Activities for Geocaching.com?

[Guest Anton]

> The site was alive for a while, but the official torch was passed to Jeremy on September 6.

 

Is this the day we'll want to celebrate? If not, what is the official anniversary date? Are any special activities being planned?

Will there be a PR package available for local geocachers to use with the media? It would be great if we could download PDF files with flyers, brochures, press releases, logos, etc. Foor for thought...

 

Anton, 11H/18F

 

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Anton Ninno - N2RUD

Syracuse, NY 13210

[Guest Snowtrail]

I believe that the true anniversary date should be May 1, to celebrate the demise of SA. Geocaching.com is ancillary to that, but that is the true source for this website.

[Guest mcb]

Actually SA was turn off at 12:04AM EDT May 2, 2000. The first GPS-Stash was listed to the newgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav on May 3, 2000. The first find was on May 6, 2000.

 

So which anniversary would you like to celebrate? The demise of SA, the Stacher's anniversary, the Seekers anniversary or the anniversary of Geocaching when Jeremy official took over. Before Jeremy?s site many of us called the activity GPS-stash (my personal favorite). My opinion given the bad blood between the "first stasher" and Geocaching I would just let it slide. Lets look to the future rather then celebrate the past.

 

mcb

[Guest ClayJar]

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Originally posted by mcb:

Actually SA was turn off at 12:04AM EDT May 2, 2000. The first GPS-Stash was listed to the newgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav on May 3, 2000. The first find was on May 6, 2000.

 

So which anniversary would you like to celebrate?

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I may love my Wisconsinite background, but for this question, I draw on my Louisianian years... Which to celebrate? ALL OF THEM!

 

The three May ones can be the five-day "Festival of GPS", during which you're encouraged to go out hiking, fishing, hunting, caching, driving, flying, or anything else where you use GPS (in other words, personal spacecraft will likely require their own festival, sorry).

 

The anniversary of Geocaching.com can simply be an excuse to get new people in the game. Give them a hat, a shirt, a sticker, an e-mail, or anything you can think of to get them to go, "Hey, what is this stuff?" (Or don't. Great thing about it all is that you can do whatever you want.)

 

(I'm still trying to get somebody to do something for Linux's 10th.)

[Guest ClayJar]

quote:

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Originally posted by mcb:

Actually SA was turn off at 12:04AM EDT May 2, 2000. The first GPS-Stash was listed to the newgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav on May 3, 2000. The first find was on May 6, 2000.

 

So which anniversary would you like to celebrate?

---

I may love my Wisconsinite background, but for this question, I draw on my Louisianian years... Which to celebrate? ALL OF THEM!

 

The three May ones can be the five-day "Festival of GPS", during which you're encouraged to go out hiking, fishing, hunting, caching, driving, flying, or anything else where you use GPS (in other words, personal spacecraft will likely require their own festival, sorry).

 

The anniversary of Geocaching.com can simply be an excuse to get new people in the game. Give them a hat, a shirt, a sticker, an e-mail, or anything you can think of to get them to go, "Hey, what is this stuff?" (Or don't. Great thing about it all is that you can do whatever you want.)

 

(I'm still trying to get somebody to do something for Linux's 10th.)

[Guest PharoaH]

How about just calling it even on the 5th. Wouldn't that be fun - celebrate Cinco de Mayo at your favorite establishment and then try to find a cache.

[Guest Snowtrail]

Yeah, and to make some of the urban caches a challenge, hunt at night after a few margaritas!