Re: [PLUG] aKademy 2008, The Philadelphia Konvention?

[schwepes@netaxs.com]

Oops, did not update address.
bs


On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, schwepes@moog.netaxs.com wrote:

> You may want to talk to the people at International House at
> 37th and Chestnut.
> bs
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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!
> > > >
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