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    Here is the event calendar for the next 3 weeks,
    https://www.gagb.org.uk/Events/Events030214.pdf
    42 events coming up, including a special get together (GC4XB8V) to welcome Sarah Leonard (Snoopy Is Boss) back to the game. Hopefully by then she will also have found her 4000th find!
    There are 3 intriguing events in Liverpool, London and Dublin but many more across the world - Love Love...Geocaching.
    So there is lots and lots up and down the countries to get involved in - where will you go?

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    Over 50 events in the next three weeks. Great to see a couple of CITOs in there and expect to see more as people finalise plans for the worldwide CITO weekend on the 26th and 27th April.
    There's a new Severn Bore viewing event, which will hopefully go to plan this time. And I'd love love love someone to give some feedback on what is happening at the Love Love...Geocaching events this week.

    Have a great week!

    https://www.gagb.org.uk/Events/Events100214.pdf

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    Shame about the calender not being update now, I personally find it easier to look at a specific date on a calender than to browse through a long list. Really this is no different to the GroundSpeak email with the events listed.

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    A lot easier to read on this than the email.

    The calender is very time consuming and if the committee are doing their job, far better things to spend their limited free time on.

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    Unhappy Calender

    I find the calendar easier to use - you can see exactly what's happening on a specific day and plan ahead. I find it particularly helpful when planning camping weekends etc, the email doesn't allow you to do this. I would like to see the calendar back in use.

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    Once again, less than 8% of members use the calendar with any sort of regularity making the time consuming effort in producing it pretty futile, especially when the detail is available in many other places.

    I agree, it can be useful to see it as a calendar and for that reason I use the GSAK macro which allows me to take my events database and export it into my Outlook calendar. Unfortunately that simple method cannot be replicated onto this website but I am happy to talk anyone through the process to do it themselves.

    The full events database will be published in Seeker when it comes out. With camping events being published further in advance than most other events, hopefully that will give you the additional detail you are missing.
    Last edited by richlay; 17th February 2014 at 01:41 PM.

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    Here is the next 3 weeks of event detail. An event to welcome SnoopyIsBoss back to the game after the cow incident, on Wednesday (GC4XB8V) and a good walk up a hill to a remote cache location on Sunday (GC4WC83). More and more CITO's are being published too. Why not let us know where you are going?

    https://www.gagb.org.uk/Events/Events170214.pdf

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    Thank you for replying - unfortunately I don't use GSAK - I've tried but find it confusing, not being IT savvy and I cannot afford to pay for it's use. I know that my GC buddy also used the calendar to look for events in areas out of our notification area - we will miss it.

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    An idea, are you able to open this in Outlook, or any other program that uses iCal? Perhaps start a new calendar first. Note it isn't the most up to date version but if it works and people want it I am happy to upload it periodically

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...20Calendar.ics

    FYI, 28 events were published in the last week alone. Updating them all to the old calendar would have taken ages.

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    Default That's great

    Thank you :socool: - I can see a few events that we might be able to attend . I can appreciate the time it would take to upload all the events and I can understand why the decision was made to change it. I suppose if we do a regular search for events nationwide we would pick any new ones up - just laziness on our part . I will also take another look at GSAK, I see there's a FB page that offers help and advice on how to use it. Thanks again for your help.

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    If it is useful to people I am quite happy to put the calendar link on at the same time as the pdf

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    This listing covers the 3 weeks from Monday 3rd to Sunday 23rd. Your event will be listed from next week.

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    Here is the listing for the next 3 weeks. Almost 50 events were added to the calendar over the last 7 days with Maker Madness, CITO and WWFM events all being listed. This week sees a fun event in the North West to celebrate "Pi Day" and the 14th Brew With A View event up Pendle Hill, where I should be grabbing my 4,000th cache.

    Have a great week and why not let us know what you get up to?

    https://www.gagb.org.uk/uploads/Even...s%20100314.pdf

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    Another 35 events have been added to the event list https://www.gagb.org.uk/events.php

    But that is nothing. And the reason that this announcement is 24 hours late is due to another brilliant piece of work from Cass.

    THE CALENDAR IS BACK!

    Cass has done some witchcraft and been able to create a calendar from a basic CSV file that has hugely simplified the whole process and made the compilation take seconds instead of hours. Each event is clickable and will take you to the cache page and we are currently working (well, Martyn is ) to sort out the county data so we will no longer need to use regional locations. When you hover over a day, a pop out box will list every event on that date. It is also formatted for printing and looks great. We hope you love it like we do. And use it!

    You can find it here https://www.gagb.org.uk/events-calendar.php

    As ever, any constructive feedback is welcome. Lots of enhancements happen as a result of "you know what would look great...?" type comments. And a massive thanks and well done to Cass for a job well done.

    Have a great week and let us know what you get up to!

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    Keep forgetting to update this thread...

    I've just added 24 events to the calendar, published over the last 6 days.

    There are 54 WWFM events in the UK and Ireland on the 7th June. It looks like it will smash the records set in 2013 which in turn smashed the records from the years previous. I've just ordered a smashing looking coin from http://www.coinsandpins.com/geocoins...n#.U4dEIHJdWSp

    There is a CITO event this weekend in Southport. I'm sure Irene and Clare would love to see you and no doubt sell you some Piratemania stuff too! http://coord.info/GC51YGC

    Have a great week and let us know what you get up to.

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    Over 20 new events have just been added to the listing, including a special event to remember and celebrate the life of a much loved Yorkshire cacher that was lost recently. http://coord.info/GC56YJ7
    This week sees Jacaru's 24 hour caching events - who is going? Care to share your strategy?
    The events list can be found here https://www.gagb.org.uk/events.php
    Have a great week!

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    Do you know, I meant to update it last night but I clean forgot. The file is ready waiting to upload and I'll do it as soon as I get settled tonight. It has a last updated date on it so as long as your event was published after that, it should be picked up. Let me know if it isn't though!

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    Hi Karen, thanks for using the calendar.
    I suspect this is out of my skill set, I know that the update on the 4th worked as I checked my own event had gone on to the site and it had.
    Is Cass aware?

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    Cass has just had a look - all sorted now.
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    Thanks for the quick response.

    I can fill my diary now !

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