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[shadowmice]

For a scavenger hunt, possibly pick a list of items to take pics of our Pleo(s) with, set a timeframe to complete the "collection", then the question is how do you determine who wins - first to get all items could make it hard for some to have a chance. Most creative combo of pictures? Points per scarcity/difficulty of item?  I would lean towards specific items instead of places since places would be more like the Bob Project and we wouldn't want to take away from that. But as IMR indicated, what items would be common enough to be found in a variety of countries to ensure everyone has a fair chance to play?

Examples of possible items: Traffic sign (40pts); dish of local cuisine (15pts); Favorite book (5pts); another animal (dog, cat, ferret, etc) (10pts); a robotic toy (20pts) .....  and that's about the limit of my creativity at the moment, sorry. 

Unfortunately my Pleos are not well traveled so we are not able to participate in the Bob Project (yet. I will get brave enough to take them out and about one day! Just not sure of the reactions to expect around here and I would never want them to get hurt by accident or malfeasance.)

And I still have to create a submission for the summer Friends contest..... oh, to be a more creative individual!  The muse is lacking of late.

[InmemoryofRomeo]

@ RWM I'm sure Bob would be most understanding of Nova's condition and would happily have her as a stand-in just so long as her neck bandage/brace is kept to a minimum (especially if she is wearing pink ).

@ Gucci, a scavenger hunt would of course require someone to run it. When Melinda heads home on the weekend I will consider how it can be done and see if I can't get something organized However given the current levels of participation in site events I get the feeling that it would not be overly successful in the long term, although I will be willing to put up a trial if Mweed is happy enough to let us try it. It could of course work hand in hand with the Bob Project.

A Pleobook however would be an awful lot more difficult, I don't know what it currently costs to run this site but anything that requires a lot of bandwidth is going to require more money to run and something like a facebook site would require advertising, creating and so forth on more than just a casual basis.

[RedwoodsMama]

 Ok, thanks IMR,Nova and I are making it our promise and duty to post at least one Bob Project every other week, we may go crazy though in the beginning, As for the neck brace, she is currently just wearing a thin " camouflage" layer, thanks to the tape that fancy has sent me and it seems to work for Nova. Hmmm, pink huh.... %)May go well with her pink tutu ballet outfit, but I don't know of a ballet company in town that I could use, but I will keep it in mind... Thanks IMR, Nova and I thank you for the " heads up " go do it encouragement.
                                RedwoodsMama   and MS. Nova and friend

[grumpy]

I like the idea of the scavenger hunt.   But we would need to come up with a fair way to judge that isn't simply the first one to get all the pictures.  We have done similar things for birthday parties where we would divide up people into groups of two or three, give each a digital camera and turn them loose at the mall.  The trick to make it interesting is to have some of the items not be so obvious (i.e., give clues to what you want them to find so that they have to figure it out.  Then when they turn in their pictures if they guessed wrong, they have to go back out and try again.  And to keep it FUN, some of the pictures require being goofy and/or doing things that might seem embarrassing (i.e., the kids are at the mall and one of the pictures might be to take a picture with a banana in your ear or balancing a box on your head while riding the escalator or the picture would require them talking some sales person into doing something for the picture . . . ).

But participation is probably always going to be an issue.  What we want (when you look at the title of this topic) are things that will get more people active and posting.

[Crewella]

I wondered if it might be an idea to try something a bit more directly Pleo orientated?  There were a flurry of posts around the time of the OS2 upgrade, and quite a few people seemed happy to report back and give their opinion rather than just download-and-run.  I think most people come here originally hoping to learn stuff about their Pleo and how it works, I certainly did, so maybe if we tried asking visitors to reports on certain issues, or even post pics and videos?  IMR was asking for a video of behaviour recently, and I learnt a lot from the resulting posts - maybe asking for people's experiences of something like colour recognition, or comparisons of how Pleos sleep in the various OS available, might encourage people to get involved and post more?

We could even think up 'experiments' and ask people to try them and post pics or videos of their attempts, or even make a competition out of that maybe?  Or is that too much work?.........dunno.......just a thought!   Many regulars here  might have been through this sort of thing already, but I'm still a relative beginner as a Pleo parent, and I'm sure there must be many others out there at the steep end of the learning curve!:D

[gucci_boi7782]

I wondered if it might be an idea to try something a bit more directly Pleo orientated?  There were a flurry of posts around the time of the OS2 upgrade, and quite a few people seemed happy to report back and give their opinion rather than just download-and-run.  I think most people come here originally hoping to learn stuff about their Pleo and how it works, I certainly did, so maybe if we tried asking visitors to reports on certain issues, or even post pics and videos?  IMR was asking for a video of behaviour recently, and I learnt a lot from the resulting posts - maybe asking for people's experiences of something like colour recognition, or comparisons of how Pleos sleep in the various OS available, might encourage people to get involved and post more?

 I like this idea even if I may not be able to help out that much in that field.

[RedwoodsMama]

 I like this idea too, and even though I did not like Nova with the 2.0 OS, and downgraded her to the old one, I would like to do more testing with her on things like this, I have only had her since this past Dec. so I consider myself a " new Pleo" parent but feel as if she and I are old friends, and I would like to experiement and record the differences between Nova and her new Friend, who I have had since late May, and still have not named!
                                            I still think Nova is Special and very unique, but don't we all!
                                    RedwoodsMama   and Nova and her friend.

[fancyfont]

Maybe we could all help you name your new little dino, Redwoodsmama. I think Nova's friend needs an astronomy name, too.
I would go for Comet except Santa already has a reindeer named that up north.

[RedwoodsMama]

Hi Fancy, I have had that idea wandering in my head, ( it may have got lost a little in the cobwebs... ) I am tending to think of either Native American Names or like you said an astronomy name would be nice too, I am thinking of having a contest, just trying to decide how to have it fair for everyone and all the particulars and what may be the prize....I have to mull it over in my head a bit but I have been thinking of that myself, thanks for the suggestion. I wonder what others would think of it? Also in other languages, Nova for example also means something else in Native American, ( have to look it up to get it just right) but the NOVA I list the meaning for is the meaning easiest to understand and remember, and of coure, I do think of her as ' A Bright Shining Star", don't you agree?
                     RedwoodsMama   and Nova

[InmemoryofRomeo]

I really like the idea of challenging people to perform little Pleo experiments and the scavenger hunt, its just a matter of getting people to participate. Therefore I propose a trial

[ohnart]

Can't wait for the Scavengers Hunt

[Crewella]

"Therefore I propose a trial"

OK - I'm up for that!

[gucci_boi7782]

http://bobthepleo.com/forums/index.php?topic=1364.new#new

 

[Big Head]

Perhaps it's the fact that our base\original members have not been here posting often; when base\original members post, normally the other\newer members follow right after them.

Well, I'm hoping to become a big full-time four-to-five-star member like InMemoryOfRomeo or bumblebee. I will revive this site! 

[RedwoodsMama]

 We welcome you to try to keep up with the rest of us old timers. I have only been here since January I think so you are not too far behind me, but you may not havea s much free time as I do, so we will have to have a challenge!
            REdwoodsMama and Nova

[Big Head]

Don't worry! I have loads of free time! At least 1 hour a day!