General Chat

"We are inviting members to join the Genes team for the day in London in July. You’ll be able to spend some time looking at the changes we have made and then give us your feedback and suggestions.
We will reimburse up to £50 for your travel expenses. Also, anyone who takes part will be given a 12 month Platinum subscription to the site."

How many attended this? What was discussed?

My travel expenses would be a lot more than £50 plus I would need to stay for 2 nights to get over the journey.

This applies to a lot of members.

It was discussed somewhere.

July? 2013? bit far ahead innit :-S

Think the train from Cardiff wil be a lot more than £50 and in nearly a year's time it will probably have increased

Would be nice to be able to attend but don't think it wuld be feasible for me

It's been and gone Ann. :-D

Hence the question. I think I remember seeing it advertised, but have not seen any thread about it. THink if it had been late August 2012, they would have had loads of people all willing to pay £50 to get in!!

I think there has been one GR member who said that they had gone. I don't think many of us even know the date it was held.

Nice one John - thanks for leading us up the garden path ;-)

Ann Roses on one side, Buttercups on other. And lots of lovely holly. :-D :-D

Was this the meeting where GRU formed opinion that there was positive feedback to the new and exciting format? Nice to know who went, and what they thought.

Seems GR are keeping very quiet about this......if it ever happened........& whoever took part has signed the Official Secrets Act.
Perhaps a way forward would be to go back to the days when members just paid a small membership fee to put their tree on the site & join in the forums & were offered a reduced price membership of FMP for searching records.
Most of the major problems with GR have arisen since they bit off more than they could chew.

I went , and found it very interesting, I was asked what I thought about changes they were making, mostly I liked them.What was discussed? The new changes.

Just out of interest Lynda, how many of you were there & was anything said about reporting the outcome of the day to members who weren´t able to attend.

I don't know how many people went Wisechild, as it was done on a time slot basis. I didn't ask how many were to attend, and never asked about members who weren't going to, well there are a couple of million, so knew everyone wouldn't attend :-D

I tried the new layout, and thought it was done really well. As I said, I did ask a few questions of my own, can't recall what they were now, but they were answered.

It was interesting to see the office, where it "all happens" I had a very lovely time there, and would do it again, if asked.

By the way there was no secret about the meeting, it was open to all to go, I just applied like anyone could of., I have said on here before that I went, so no secret.
I can see why they had to limit the amount they paid for travel, after all this is a worldwide site, paying someone to come from outer Mongolia for an hour, isn't very cost productive:-)

Thanks for that Lynda. At least it gives an idea to those of us who were unable to even think of attending.
I wasn´t suggesting it was a secret. just a bit surprised that there was no mention either by attendees or GR after the event.
Nice to know you had a good day.
Marion

I said that I went Marion, but nobody asked what happened when I did :-)

On the same subject ...........I received an email from A*****y inviting me for something similar this week. Research to evaluate parts of their website by an external company in London ............. for one hour ......expenses the same as GR. :-)

Jo

Are you going Jo?

No Lynda ..... It is week commencing the 24th and as I have new windows on order don't want to take the chance that the fitters may want to come in then. So I haven't replied expressing an interest of taking part.

Jo

That's a shame Jo, it'd of been good to express your opinion.It's always the same, when something good comes up, there's always something else happening on the same day :-|

Yes Lynda - Sods Law !