| Walt Mankowski on 17 Jul 2007 22:23:12 -0000 |
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I'm not sure how many of the lessons of worldcon are applicable to aKademy. Worldcon was at the convention center and drew 1000s of people. Matt says that aKademy generally draws 100-200 people, and he's looking to host it at a local university. In other words, it's a significantly smaller undertaking. Walt On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:44:40AM -0400, schwepes@netaxs.com wrote: > World Science Fiction conventions will have supporting staff and even > department heads from around the world. Someone is needed on site > to deal with convention center and or hotels, to price and obtain > supplies for the convention and to make sure that goods shipped to the > convention make the journey to their proper receivers safely. Some > people will have to make a trip to the city to see the spaces that > they will be using but with proper planning and coordination with the > center or hotel, only one trip may be necessary. Most of the work > can be done on line as most of the work is coordinating exhibitors and > presenters and, of course, registration of the guests. > We have found that face to face meetings have their uses but for most > participants mean sitting through three hours of other people's bs to > deal with three minutes of real information and a chance to corner > people who need to be cornered to exchange information. > bs > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > > > On Monday 16 July 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: > > > Not sure if you need anything out this far west but I have many contacts > > > at West Chester Univ., including the CS Department Head. > > > > It doesn't really matter much if you aren't too near Philly. any help is most > > welcome. Do you have an IM address (or something similar) to chat? I > > can be found "mukidohime@jabber.org" on Jabber or "Mukidohime" on AIM, or > > usually lurking on the #plug IRC channel. In any case I'll keep you posted > > about any developments that occur, hopefully we can get things going very > > soon! > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Attachment:
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