| Matthew Rosewarne on 18 Jul 2007 19:04:02 -0000 |
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On Wednesday 18 July 2007, schwepes@netaxs.com wrote: > > You may want to talk to the people at International House at > > 37th and Chestnut. Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out. > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > > 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. True, it's far smaller affair, but many of the preparations tasks are the same. > > > 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. Yeah, I had expected to be doing a great deal of legwork and handshaking, as well as waiting in lines. Hopefully I'll be able to do a large portion of it so that the other team members, who may not have quite as much free time. can do more palatable things. Thanks for the advice, the more I learn from other organisers, the more pitfalls I can avoid. Attachment:
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