[NFBP-Jigsaw] Fwd: Convention things

[Preston Gaylor]

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From: Emily Gindlesperger <skewbdobdo at verizon.net>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Subject: Convention things
To: David Goldstein <icantcupodcast at gmail.com>, Michelle Bernetskie <
mmichaels.iscience at gmail.com>, Denice Brown <dbrown8827 at aol.com>, Jason
Polansky <jaedpo96 at gmail.com>, michelle mcmanus <michelleandremy at gmail.com>,
KirK Hunger <kirkhunger1 at gmail.com>, Pam Baquero <oneblindhippie at yahoo.com>,
Chris Westbrook <westbchris at gmail.com>, Stacie Leap <stacie.leap at gmail.com>,
sherry gaskins <sherryd.Gaskinssdg at gmail.com>, Doug Grove <
beathan1988 at gmail.com>, Simon Bonenfant <sbonenfant2 at gmail.com>, <
tinybuchanan1204 at gmail.com>, Preston Gaylor <prestongaylor21 at gmail.com>
CC: Lynn Heitz <lynnelaineheitz1958 at gmail.com>


Hello everyone,

Again, I have attached our internal schedule for Thursday and Friday.  This
is the schedule we all worked together on.  With your requests and advice,
I have arranged the room usage and time.  Nothing has changed from when I
sent it two weeks ago.  I am waiting to hear from Dr. Rancher, and Lynn
will not send me the Saturday and Sunday schedules.

Lynn has also decided that if Dr. Rancher does not come in person, instead
of taking the demo out of the exhibit hall, she is going to put her BBVS
presentation in again.  Also, remember, as I stated in the other email,
Passle informed both Connie and I that she could not commit to anything
until possibly the week of convention.  With that said, she is not on the
attached schedule, and if she is available, she will go in with Connie on
her time slot Friday afternoon.

I do not know when Lynn will send over any further information or if she
has made any  changes to our working schedule.  Therefore, we can only
collect volunteer data at this time, we do not have anything for online or
an electronic documents.  I have stopped creating blurbs.  It is unclear
how having to wait for the final document will affect working documents and
room arrangements at this time.

There is a convention zoom room created, that will be running in the Garden
Atrium.

We have the menu for the Marriott Starbucks Bistro done, and the hotel
stated that the Hilton menu is being redone, they should have the document
to us by next week.

The meal ticket templates are created, and we are working on some of the
registration packets.  New this year, we are testing another tactile option
on the Braille portion of the meal tickets for those who are blind and
cannot read braille yet.  This will simply consist of Braille dots in the
upper left corner of the meal ticket. Essentially one dot or a letter a,
will mean Thursday lunch, two dots above and below, essentially a letter b,
will mean Thursday dinner, two letter a's will be Friday lunch, two letter
b's will be Friday dinner, three a's will be Saturday lunch and 3 b's
Saturday dinne, nothing is Sunday breaktfast.  Obviously the people still
learning braille may not know them as the letters, but the tactile
indication in the corner will help identify it.  If it is not well
received, you can go back to doing it the old way.

We have created a convention ad form for those vendors or even individuals
that would be interested in purchasing ad space, to be online with links.
I cannot thank David enough for all of his help with these web forms.

I want to thank all of you for all of your h elp, and those who have
already sent me their basket descriptions.

Also, I'd like to that Pam and the merchants division for passing a motion
to purchase coffee urns for the state affiliate, which can be used in the
hospitality suites.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.  I will be looking to call a
small group together regarding bingo soon.

Take care everyone,




Emily W. Gindlesperger







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