{"id":482,"date":"2011-11-15T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/11\/15\/snoutcast-91-gc-loves-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2011-11-15T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:48:00","slug":"snoutcast-91-gc-loves-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/11\/15\/snoutcast-91-gc-loves-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"SnoutCast #91: GC Loves Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because not only can helpers make or break a puzzlehunt event; volunteering on GC is also the gateway drug to running a puzzlehunt yourself.  And you know how much we like to encourage that!<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/512\/audio\/player.swf\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/512\/audio\/player.swf\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=20111115&#038;soundFile=http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/snoutcast\/20111115.mp3\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/object><br \/><small>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/snoutcast\/20111115.mp3\">Download mp3<\/a> &#8211; 28 MB ]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>00:59 &#8211; <i>&#8220;voluntary&#8221;<\/i><br \/>01:25 &#8211; volunteering for Shinteki events<br \/>02:33 &#8211; our first GC volunteer experience: <a href=\"http:\/\/chappie.stanford.edu\/~gcon\/espionage\/\">Espionage (1999)<\/a><br \/>10:07 &#8211; old-school Game Clues? not necessarily <i>puzzles<\/i><br \/>15:02 &#8211; helpful volunteers are helpful<br \/>19:53 &#8211; managing ~40 volunteers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malum-iter.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Hogwarts Game (2006)<\/a><br \/>23:07 &#8211; good volunteers know what they want to do<br \/>28:55 &#8211; <i>plugging away:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/puzzlehuntcalendar.com\/\">Puzzle Hunt Calendar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/trenchwood.com\/\">Doctor When (Trenchwood)<\/a> applications<br \/>30:39 &#8211; <i>The End<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Got a comment or question? E-mail <a href=\"mailto:podcast@snout.org\">podcast@snout.org<\/a> or post at <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/podcast\">snout.org\/podcast<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Music: instrumentals from &#8220;Code Monkey&#8221; and &#8220;Shop Vac&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathancoulton.com\/\">Jonathan Coulton<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/snoutcast\" rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\">Subscribe to SnoutCast<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=348528472\">iTunes link<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/DeeAnn.jpg\" alt=\"DeeAnn\" title=\"DeeAnn\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because not only can helpers make or break a puzzlehunt event; volunteering on GC is also the gateway drug to running a puzzlehunt yourself. And you know how much we like to encourage that! [ Download mp3 &#8211; 28 MB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49,67,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doinitrite","category-gamecontrol","category-podcast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}