Our club has decided to go “all in” on Sailors For The Sea’s Clean Regattas program. What that means is that for our next big event (220 participants across 7 classes) we will try to be as green as possible.
In addition to things like recycling, clean support-boat engines and re-usable water bottles, I’m going to try to score the event using as little paper as possible. Our usual process at the end of each sailing day is to stand at the official bulletin board, pulling off yesterday’s results and stapling on the results from that day. It generates a huge amount of paper - 15-20 sheets for each day, it adds up!
I know Sailwave has some scripts that can be used for scrolling results. My plan is to use some large-screen TVs for displaying the results at the end of each racing day. I’ve even considered putting together some sort of “results kiosk” using a Raspberry Pi. One of the challenges I have is that with so many competitors and so many classes, it is tough to make the results readable enough that competitors can see them, and to potentially do a scoring query based on what they see in preliminary daily results (I know, shocking, since scorers NEVER make mistakes).
Do any of you have any best practices that you can share with regards to the best way to display results in this way, or any other paper-reducing best practices? I’m also curious if anyone has tried to use Sailwave as part of their registration process, when people walk in to register for the event. This might be another way to reduce paper.
Total energy cost of 20 sheets of printed paper approximately 2.84MJ.
2 larg-ish (how large?) screen displays maybe 100W power total, so equivalent run time is about 8hrs, but if using fossil fuel generated electricity at 30% process and transport efficiency that’s reduced to a bit over 2hrs.
Not exactly black and white, is it?
It surely is not, but in this case, the paper doesn’t get re-read, it goes into trash or recycling, so the future cost of transporting the paper to be recycled, and the infrastructure involved in performing that task has to be added, and compared to the cost of the energy required to create the LCD screens, use them for 5-8 years, then recycle them (in addition to the energy needed). There is, of course, also the loss of trees and the oxygen they produce.
The other part of this is what I would call the “soft” benefit. Most of our competitors are kids, who get something of an educational message about need to reduce, re-use and understand the impact of what they do. With the adults walking the talk, particularly the race officers, a kid might think twice about buying that water in a plastic bottle or throwing their waste in the sea.
From recollection it must be stated in the Sailing Instructions
where/what constitutes the Official Notice Board [ONB]. So just
specify that the ONB is the regatta web site. All
competitors/supporters will then access via smart-phones / tablets.
Suggest that you consider making the information posted to
electronic ONB as lightweight as possible, by this I mean removing
as much of the regatta branding as possible form the ONB postings,
to improve download speed and reduce consumption of any data limits
on mobile device contracts and/or any regatta venue
competitor/support WiFi network, especially if the regatta WiFi
network is shared by Organising Authority, competitors, supporters
& media.
My two cents worth and look forward to IJ comments on an electronic
ONB suggestion.
Kind regards,
Huw
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On 28/01/2015 17:10, [sailwave] wrote:
andy@sailor.nu
Hi all!
Our club has decided to go "all in" on Sailors For
The Sea’s Clean
Regattas program . What that means is that for our
next big event (220 participants across 7 classes) we
will try to be as green as possible.
In addition to things like recycling, clean support-boat
engines and re-usable water bottles, I’m going to try to
score the event using as little paper as possible. Our usual process at the
end of each sailing day is to stand at the official
bulletin board, pulling off yesterday’s results and
stapling on the results from that day. It generates a
huge amount of paper - 15-20 sheets for each day, it
adds up!
I know Sailwave has
some scripts that can be used for scrolling results. My
plan is to use some large-screen TVs for displaying the
results at the end of each racing day. I’ve even considered
putting together some sort of “results kiosk” using a
Raspberry Pi. One
of the challenges I have is that with so many
competitors and so many classes, it is tough to make the
results readable enough that competitors can see them,
and to potentially do a scoring query based on what they
see in preliminary daily results (I know, shocking,
since scorers NEVER make mistakes).
Do any of you have any
best practices that you can share with regards to the
best way to display results in this way, or any other
paper-reducing best practices? I’m also curious if any
one has tried to use Sailwave as part of their
registration process, when people walk in to register
for the event. This might be another way to reduce
paper.
Andy
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I have looked at the posting and think it confuses the issue.
It is correct that the SI will define the official notice board but not correct that this has anything to do with mobiles etc.
The official notice board could be a screen or series of screens available at the venue for competitors to consult it need not be accessible by the internet and thus mobile phones.
If it is a web site you would have to ensure all the information was available in menus as if there were parts that were “hidden” or not obvious there is a chance of redress.
Better to have a screen on the venue and say it may be available on the internet the may gives you a get out if there is a problem.
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Looking for Best Practices: Saving Paper
Andy,
From recollection it must be stated in the Sailing Instructions where/what constitutes the Official Notice Board [ONB]. So just specify that the ONB is the regatta web site. All competitors/supporters will then access via smart-phones / tablets.
Suggest that you consider making the information posted to electronic ONB as lightweight as possible, by this I mean removing as much of the regatta branding as possible form the ONB postings, to improve download speed and reduce consumption of any data limits on mobile device contracts and/or any regatta venue competitor/support WiFi network, especially if the regatta WiFi network is shared by Organising Authority, competitors, supporters & media.
My two cents worth and look forward to IJ comments on an electronic ONB suggestion.
Kind regards,
Huw
On 28/01/2015 17:10, andy@sailor.nu [sailwave] wrote:
Hi all!
Our club has decided to go “all in” on Sailors For The Sea’s Clean Regattas program . What that means is that for our next big event (220 participants across 7 classes) we will try to be as green as possible.
In addition to things like recycling, clean support-boat engines and re-usable water bottles, I’m going to try to score the event using as little paper as possible. Our usual process at the end of each sailing day is to stand at the official bulletin board, pulling off yesterday’s results and stapling on the results from that day. It generates a huge amount of paper - 15-20 sheets for each day, it adds up!
I know Sailwave has some scripts that can be used for scrolling results. My plan is to use some large-screen TVs for displaying the results at the end of each racing day. I’ve even considered putting together some sort of “results kiosk” using a Raspberry Pi. One of the challenges I have is that with so many competitors and so many classes, it is tough to make the results readable enough that competitors can see them, and to potentially do a scoring query based on what they see in preliminary daily results (I know, shocking, since scorers NEVER make mistakes).
Do any of you have any best practices that you can share with regards to the best way to display results in this way, or any other paper-reducing best practices? I’m also curious if any one has tried to use Sailwave as part of their registration process, when people walk in to register for the event. This might be another way to reduce paper.
Andy
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Thanks to both of you. I understand what Huw is saying. His comment was just that if the ONB is defined as a web site, then competitors have the option of accessing it with various means. Devices like large screens that are scrolling notices and results are aids in doing that. My preference would be that the large screens wouldn’t necessarily be “official” as stated in the SIs - they are just an aid in seeing what is on the web site.
The recent ISAF World Cup basically defined both a hard “board” and their web site as the ONB:
"4 COMMUNICATIONS WITH COMPETITORS
4.1 Notices to competitors will be posted on the official notice boards located on the ground floor of
the US Sailing Center, Miami, FL. and on the http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/onb.php"
This does put some pressure on the webmaster to ensure that it’s easy for race officials to post on the web site.
I know that with a large event, expecting all competitors and coaches to huddle around a single board and read a typewritten document can be a bit ambitious. In events I’ve scored, it’s quite a scrum just getting to the board to put up the days results (we tried the velvet ropes, but it never seems to work, particularly with Opti kids).
