Just sort of an FYI . . .

Last year I contacted North Coast Festival and offered to line up/organize bike parking volunteers.  I enjoyed the hell out of the festival and am glad it's happening again, but did not reach out to them in regard to bike parking this year (it turned out to be a very different crowd than Pitchfork and I'd say something like 1/5 as many attendees come by bike than for Pitchfork, despite what appeared to be near-capacity attendance.)

I just thought I'd check their volunteer page to reach out and see what their needs are, and discovered they have a crazy-complicated process this year involving an application/resume submission process, application fee by money order, and a $50 deposit:

http://www.northcoastfestival.com/get-involved/volunteer/

I did catch wind that there were lots of problems with volunteers gaming the system last year (volunteering to get in and then sort of disappearing . . . kids these days . . .) and understand the need for a little more structure, but this is a bit . . . extreme.  Hope they don't come up way short on volunteers.

Anyways, I wanted to let people know what the status is, and what they need to do if they want to volunteer again this year . . .