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Hi,
I will be making nametags for everyone attending any of the meetups or one of the concerts in Ghent. If you want me to prepare a nametag for you, please let me know so I can include you in my list. I will put the following information on your nametag (see example below): your forumname, your full name, the city and country you live in and (if you have one) your avatar from the forum.
Please send me your info either by replying on this thread, or by emailing your full details. Please use the following line to make things easier for me:

“forumname” – full name – city, country - attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
Eg: “Maarten” – Maarten Massa – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium - attending 1,2,3,4,5,6

If you do not want me to show your full details here on the forum (for privacy reasons), just email me your info and say so in your email. I will then only use your details on the nametag but not put them on the forumlist. If you're bringing your wife, husband, girlfriend, son, mother, teacher, doctor or whatever and he/she wants a nametag too: no problem! Just provide all the info for him/her too!

The nametags come with a specially designed lanyard/keycord, similar to those I had made for the Barcelona concert (see pic). Because these cost a bit of money, I will be charging around 3 or 4 EUR to pay for them. I will not be making any profit of this whatsoever, don’t worry. Payment can be done on the day itself (cash) at one of the meetups when picking up the nametag or by Paypal in advance (please ask for my Paypal account if you want to pay this way). The exact price will be set once I know how many lanyards we need (the more lanyards, the cheaper they get of course)
These are the meetups/plans for the weekend. Please include in your request for a nametag which gatherings you will attend (just to have an idea of the number of participants for each meetup. No need to officially subscribe for any of these)

1 = Friday, August 20: Afternoon Meetup (close to the venue – place to be decided)
2 = Friday, August 20: First concert
3 = Saturday, August 21: Afternoon Meetup (close to the venue – place to be decided)
4 = Saturday, August 21: Second concert
5 = Sunday, August 22: Afternoon Meetup (close to the venue – place to be decided)
6 = Sunday, August 22: Third concert


I will update the second message of this thread regularly with the list of participants.

Please check the "Nametags for Barcelona" thread to see how it went for Barcelona:
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15752
(we had lunch with about 120 forum members/husbands/wifes/relatives/...)

Or see how it works in the similar nametags thread for the Sligo concerts:
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=21790
Any more questions: feel free to ask!


See you all soon,
Maarten

List of participants: (UPDATED July 17)
(items in RED: please contact me with missing info)

01 "Maarten"- Maarten Massa - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium - Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
02 “Eddy” – Eddy Massa – Vrasene, Belgium – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
03 (no forumname) – Ann Mechiels – Vrasene, Belgium – Eddy’s wife – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
04 “Mabeanie1” – Wendy Marshall – Warwickshire, UK – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
05 “Francy” – Françoise Devreux – Brussels, Belgium – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
06 (no forumname) – Aline Vanderdeelen – Brussels, Belgium – Francy’s daughter – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
07 (no forumname) – ... – Brussels, Belgium – Francy’s son – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
08 "Surrender" - Jarmila Haze - Purmerend, The Netherlands - Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
09 (no forumname) - Peter Haze - Purmerend, The Netherlands - Surrender's husband – Attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
10 "Pe Swijngedouw" - Peter Swijngedouw - De Panne, Belgium - Attending 1,2,3,4
11 (no forumname) - Carine Vandenplassche – De Panne, Belgium – Pe Swijngedouw’s wife – Attending 1,2,3,4
12 (no forumname) - Marie Declercq – Avekapelle, Belgium – Pe Swijngedouw’s godchild - Attending 1,2
13 (no forumname) - Antonio Campos - Avekapelle, Belgium - Attending 1,
14 "Bridger15" - Arlene Dick - Los Angeles (CA), USA / Toronto (ON), Canada - Attending 1,2,3,4
15 "Inne" - Ingrid Pottier – Antwerp, Belgium – Attending 1-2-3-4-5-6
16 “Marjan” – Marjan Faddegon – Leidschendam, The Netherlands - Attending 1,2
17 “Colia” - Lia van Zwietering - Waspik, The Netherlands – Attending 1,2,3,4
18 (no forumname) - Ine van Gorkum - Waspik, The Netherlands – Attending 1,2
19 (no forumname) - Tonny Roovers - Waspik, The Netherlands – Attending 3,4
20 “Colourit” - Rit Bols – Merksplas, Belgium – Attending 3,4
21 (no forumname) - Jef Lenaerts – Merksplas, Belgium – Attending 3,4
22 “Francis” – Francis Mus – Gent, Belgium – Attending 3,4
23 (no forumname) - Mieke Van Imschoot – Gent, Belgium – Francis’ wife – Attending 3,4
24 “Wybe” - Wybe Lageveen - Zevenaar, The Netherlands – Willy’s husband – Attending 1,2,3,4,5
25 "Willy" - Willy Lageveen - Zevenaar, The Netherlands – Wybe’s wife – Attending 1,2,3,4,5
26 “Kristien” - Kristien Aertssen - Gent, Belgium - Attending 1,2
27 (no forumname) – Kristien’s husband (?)
28 “Jarkko” – Jarkko Arjatsalo – Espoo, Finland – Attending 2,3,6
(no forumname) – Eija Arjatsalo – Espoo, Finland – attending - attending 2,3 6
30 (no forumname) – Brecht Massa – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – Maarten’s son - attending 2
31 (no forumname) – Wietse Massa – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – Maarten’s son – attending 2
32 (no forumname) – Wenche Bats – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – Maarten’s wife – attending 2
33 (no forumname) – Marjolein Heirweg – Stekene, Belgium – Maarten’s friend – attending 6
34 (no forumname) – Karolien Van Gassen – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – Maarten’s friend – attending 6
35 (no forumname) – Guy Bats – Sint-Pauwels, Belgium – Maarten’s father-in-law – attending 2
36 (no forumname) – Vera De Baere – Sint-Pauwels, Belgium – Maarten’s mother-in-law – attending 2
37 (no forumname) – Ivo Heirweg – Maarten’s friend – attending 6
38 (no forumname) – Ivo’s wife – attending 6
39 (no forumname) – Lisette Laureys – Maarten’s friend – attending 6
40 (no forumname) – Lisette’s husband – attending 6
41 (no forumname) – Robby Buys – Maarten’s friend – attending 2
42 (no forumname) – Robby’s girlfriend – attending 2
43 (no forumname) – Greet Van Moer – attending 2
44 (no forumname) – Greet’s friend – attending 2
45 (no forumname) –Nele Massa – Maarten’s sister – attending 2
46 (no forumname) – Bart Verbeken – attending 2
47 (no forumname) – Marc De Ruyte – Maarten’s friend – attending 2
48 (no forumname) – Marc’s wife – attending 2
49 “IrishMar” – Marie Nolan – Dublin, Ireland – attending 1,2,3,4,5 ?
50 “IrishAl” – Albert Noonan – Dublin, Ireland – attending 1,2,3,4,5 ?
51 “Lizzyke” – Liesbeth Feys – Antwerp, Belgium – attending 1,2,3,4,5 ?
52 (no forumname) – Sarah Baeten – Gent, Belgium – attending….
53 “Cilbo” – Cilla Mullane – Canterbury, UK – Attending 2
54 (no forumname) – Mick Mullane – Canterbury, UK – Attending 2
55 “Quirijn” – Hans de Rijke – Den Haag, The Netherlands – attending 3,4
56 (no forumname) – Hans’ friend – attending 3,4
57 “Antoine” – Antoine Gansbeke – Gent, Belgium – attending 1,2,3,5
58 “Monique1” – Monique Gansbeke – Gent, Belgium – attending 1,2,3,5
59 “Tip of the lily” – Lydia Mentink – Egmond-Binnen, The Netherlands – attending 1,2
60 (no forumname) – Leo Vink – Den Helder, The Netherlands – attending 1,2
61 (no forumname) – Henk Aartsma – Egmond-Binnen, The Netherlands – attending 1,2
62 “Tinkie” – Astrid Corbisier – Brussels, Belgium – attending …
63 (no forumname) – Orlando Fachada – Lisbon, Portugal – Tinkie’s husband – attending …
64 “Caren” – Caren Gutschmidt-Kloss – Berlin, Germany – Basecamp’s wife – attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
65 “Basecamp” – Hans Kloss – Berlin, Germany – Caren’s husband – attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
...

Hi Maarten

Thank you for doing this. Please add me to the list:

“Mabeanie1” – Wendy Marshall – Warwickshire, UK

I don't know which events I will be attending yet. Definitely the concerts(!) and hopefully one or two of the meets. Maybe you could put me down for everything for now and we'll see how it goes.

Nothing for Tony this time - he is pretending to be invisible in Gent (he refuses to go to open air concerts though he has yet to explain why he wanted to go to the stadium show in Perth WA ....) However, I am hoping to get him to the second show if you can guarantee it will not rain!

Wendy

PS Must think about getting an avatar. They look rather good on the name tags!

What a wonderful news Maarten!

Dear Maarten,
here we go again:

"surrender"- Jarmila Haze - Purmerend, the Netherlands - attending 1,2,3,4,5,6
(no forum name) - Peter Haze - Purmerend, the Netherlands - surrender's husband - 1,2,3,4,5,6

Peter is extatic about being "husband of" again....hehehe
Thank you so much for everything you are doing for us, you are truly an incredible long distance runner!!!

List updated for the first time (hopefully not the last!)

@Wendy: yes, get yourself an avatar! Would you like to order a nametag/lanyard for Tony aswell?
@Fran: can I list Aurore as "Francy's friend" or is she one of your children? I thought you only had 2...? Will she be going to all concerts/meetups?
@Jarmila: if Peter were to sign up for his own account on the forum, I could list you as "Wife of..."

See you all soon,
Maarten

dear maarten,

i'll be very happy to come to gent, with my wife, plus my niece and her husband for their first LC experience.
i will be able to introduce them to a bunch of very beautiful people, on friday afternoon, and give them the (hopefully second) best night of their life.

5&6 sold out too soon, here's my list :

"pe" - peter swijngedouw - de panne, belgium, attending 1,2,3,4
"no forumname" - carine vandenplassche, my wife - de panne, belgium, attending 1,2,3,4
"no forumname" - marie declercq, my godchild, avekapelle, belgium, attending 1,2
"no forumname" - antonio campos, avekapelle, belgium, attending 1,2

thanks for all this and so much more

pe

Pe,
I'll edit my list soon.
Sherpa has released more tickets to all 3 concerts with even Golden Seats still available for the 3th concert in case you still need tickets:
http://www.sherpa.be/Ticket/Article.asp ... anguage=NL

Maarten

Thank you, Maarten, for organizing the name tags for Ghent. I am sure they will be very beautiful like all your others. I treasure mine from Las Vegas and San Jose and I will be wearing one at the Krakow Event and two other concerts preceding Ghent.

May a make a suggestion for one of the elements on the Ghent name tag:
A likeness of the Mannequin Pis, well at least on mine.

#15 "bridger15" - Arlene Dick - Los Angeles (CA), USA / Toronto (ON), Canada - Attending 1,2,3,4

Thanks again,
---Arlene

Hi Maarten,
Thanks for doing this, so very kind of you.
Please add me on your list (but NO Manneke Pis for me !!!)

"Inne" - Ingrid Pottier - Antwerp(en) - Belgium - 1-2-3?-4?-5-6

Hi Maarten,
Please put me down for Ghent 1 and 2. I'm still working on my avatar, I've got the pixel size right but can't seem to get the total file size below 10 Kb.
Thank you for all your efforts, the Barcelona name tags were great. See you in August!
Marjan

marjan wrote: I'm still working on my avatar, I've got the pixel size right but can't seem to get the total file size below 10 Kb.

Try this site. It has a video tutorial. http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

---Arlene

List updated June 4th!
(see second message)

@Marjan: if you can't work out how to create your avatar, send the original image to me and I'll edit it for you.


Maarten

Thanks Bridger15, the site you recommended did the job. I tried a similar Dutch site, but as I said it didn't manage to cut the picture back to a sufficiently small format. Must be our megalomaniac disposition...
Maarten, thanks for your offer to help. That's one of the things I appreciate about this forum though - there's so much to learn here!
Marjan

Well, Marjan, I am happy to finally see your avatar. It is very beautiful.

---Arlene