Meet fellow cachers and learn how to create those cool looking
profile page statistics, manage your cache logs, and much, much
more from experienced cachers on Thursday, March 17, beginning
at 7:00 p.m., at the BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd.
(Click for map.)
Tonight's speakers are Michael Malvick (Ladybug Kids) and Victoria Noble
(Blazingpathways), who routinely run
Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) macros to enhance their record
keeping and keep caching statistics. You will gain more from this
evening's course by downloading GSAK to your computer by following
the link from the Geocaching.com Geocaching Software webpage and
exploring it ahead of time. You may also bring your laptop to
this session for the hands on exercises. Note, GSAK is only PC
compatible. For a review of past GSAK information that's been
shared, visit the GeocacheAlaska! Education webpage for downloadable materials.
Some of the topics that will be discussed at this EduVent
include:
- What are macros?
- GSAK online macro database
- Downloading a macro
- Syncing your macro database
- Running a macro
- Editing a macro
- StatGen macros
- Add a log macros
This event is a live link via WebEx of event sites in these
locations: Anchorage, Valdez and Soldotna. Please place a watch on this
event page to stay appraised of the final details. If you
would like to host future presentations like this one elsewhere in
Alaska, please contact Education Committee Chair, SSO
JOAT.
Please arrive on time so upfront administrative details can be
handled and announcements made, allowing the course content to
start at 7:00 p.m. Adding a "Will Attend" log to this page will
assure enough hard copy handouts are printed for the event
participants. Also, please bring your favorite nonalcoholic
beverage and favorite dessert to share with your fellow
cachers.
There will be a free-will offering cache container at the event
to help defray the costs of hosting these FUNdamentals events.