I think you're wrong
@Misu
I don't know if I count as an old timer with my 9 years on yoyo, but the times I skip jams are due to getting to know about them too late, not having time to clear out an entire weekend as that is quite the devotion. It will feel a lot more worth jamming if you don't have to cancel other plans to do it.
A reminder, maybe highlight old winners and have a flashy banner on the site, would go a long way in getting people interested. As of now the jams are quite anonymous. A post goes up a while before the jam starts in a subfolder on the forums that you wont find unless you're already a frequent jammer.
I might have gotten the wrong idea here, but I thought these jams were the biggest, if not only, event hosted by the gmc. Surely we could dedicate more of the site to it?
I understand that this probably takes a few unpaid man-hours to do, but in a community of programmers it shouldn't be too hard to find someone who'd love to do it.
That's my final post on the subject before the suggestion topic comes up