Feri Camp registration info -- Important
Feb. 26th, 2008 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonWell, to say there's been a strong response to Feri Camp registration would be a BIG understatement. Right now, just a day or so into it, with registration requests still coming in at a steady rate, I already have more requests for forms than there are places available at camp. I've sent kudos to the teaching team for being very popular people.
So...in the interests of transparency, and to try to minimize hurt feelings when at least some of the folks who wanted to come inevitably can't be accommodated, here's how the registration process is going to work (this info will also be printed on the registration forms):
I will continue to take requests for registration forms through sometime this weekend, when the forms will be emailed out to everybody who requested one. The forms will be emailed all at the same time, so that people who didn't happen to be sitting on their email or LJ at exactly the right time on just the right day won't be penalized -- everyone who asked for a registration form sometime this week will get the form at the same time, and gets the same chance to register. When you get the form, fill it out fully, include your deposit check, and (snail) mail it RIGHT BACK. No kidding, I suspect that any delay in this case will almost certainly mean you get on the waitlist.
Normally, we process event registrations in the order they arrive here, but I can't ethically do that in this case, because it would likely strongly bias the process towards those who live more locally, given the vagaries of the U.S. Post Awful (i.e., local folks would be able to get mail here sooner than those who live far away). So I'll be sorting registrations by postmark, by the order in which they were mailed, not the order in which I received them. I'll fill the available spots in that order until the camp is full. If there are ties, I'll select out of a hat or something. In the unlikely event that a couple gets "split" (only room for one), I'll let them know and they can choose whether to have one person come or to give their spot to the next person in line.
I suppose it's possible that a good number of those who asked for registration forms won't actually register, but I think it's more likely that most will, so I wanted to give everyone a head's up what the process will be if the event fills.
We would love to accommodate everyone (and this year's event will be at least 10 people larger than last year's Diana's Grove event), but a mega-camp would not only be really bad for the land here and overtaxing on the facilities (and the residents), but (and I'm going out on a limb here, not speaking for teachers, but from personal experience of hosting, organizing, attending and teaching a good number of various kinds of camps), Feri typically being a pretty immediate personal kind of experience, if path sizes or even evening rituals got too terribly big, something important might well be lost. Better a good quality experience for fewer than a less good experience for more (IMO, of course).
And of course none of this may help for those folks who aren't able to come, and to those of you, I apologize in advance. Maybe "the will of the Gods," but of course, it still sucks no less if it's you.
Warm hearth,
--Chelidon
So...in the interests of transparency, and to try to minimize hurt feelings when at least some of the folks who wanted to come inevitably can't be accommodated, here's how the registration process is going to work (this info will also be printed on the registration forms):
I will continue to take requests for registration forms through sometime this weekend, when the forms will be emailed out to everybody who requested one. The forms will be emailed all at the same time, so that people who didn't happen to be sitting on their email or LJ at exactly the right time on just the right day won't be penalized -- everyone who asked for a registration form sometime this week will get the form at the same time, and gets the same chance to register. When you get the form, fill it out fully, include your deposit check, and (snail) mail it RIGHT BACK. No kidding, I suspect that any delay in this case will almost certainly mean you get on the waitlist.
Normally, we process event registrations in the order they arrive here, but I can't ethically do that in this case, because it would likely strongly bias the process towards those who live more locally, given the vagaries of the U.S. Post Awful (i.e., local folks would be able to get mail here sooner than those who live far away). So I'll be sorting registrations by postmark, by the order in which they were mailed, not the order in which I received them. I'll fill the available spots in that order until the camp is full. If there are ties, I'll select out of a hat or something. In the unlikely event that a couple gets "split" (only room for one), I'll let them know and they can choose whether to have one person come or to give their spot to the next person in line.
I suppose it's possible that a good number of those who asked for registration forms won't actually register, but I think it's more likely that most will, so I wanted to give everyone a head's up what the process will be if the event fills.
We would love to accommodate everyone (and this year's event will be at least 10 people larger than last year's Diana's Grove event), but a mega-camp would not only be really bad for the land here and overtaxing on the facilities (and the residents), but (and I'm going out on a limb here, not speaking for teachers, but from personal experience of hosting, organizing, attending and teaching a good number of various kinds of camps), Feri typically being a pretty immediate personal kind of experience, if path sizes or even evening rituals got too terribly big, something important might well be lost. Better a good quality experience for fewer than a less good experience for more (IMO, of course).
And of course none of this may help for those folks who aren't able to come, and to those of you, I apologize in advance. Maybe "the will of the Gods," but of course, it still sucks no less if it's you.
Warm hearth,
--Chelidon
