You were on the programming team for SMOFcamp. So was every other person there. "The wrong topics" misses the point. If all of them had been well-attended, it wouldn't have been an Open Spaces, because I came up with the programming, and that was not supposed to happen. It needs to take place in a location where there is nothing else to do-- you come up with your own topics or go home. Then at least I would lock the door and go home myself, rather than sit alone at a table.
"should we organize cons without committees" Without board meetings. Committees work well. Boards of Directors on the other hand, are a consistent source of frustrations that I hear in fandom-- with the exception of you and Jer, and I don't expect that to last forever.
I'm still curious what the one discussion that did happen was, but it sounds like it went very poorly. It wasn't a scheduled topic. People just saw an empty table, sat down, and talked about several unrelated topics in the space of ten minutes. I'm not sure if you asked them, if any of them would have been aware they were participating in SMOFcamp.
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Date: 2009-08-30 04:10 pm (UTC)"should we organize cons without committees"
Without board meetings. Committees work well. Boards of Directors on the other hand, are a consistent source of frustrations that I hear in fandom-- with the exception of you and Jer, and I don't expect that to last forever.
I'm still curious what the one discussion that did happen was, but it sounds like it went very poorly.
It wasn't a scheduled topic. People just saw an empty table, sat down, and talked about several unrelated topics in the space of ten minutes. I'm not sure if you asked them, if any of them would have been aware they were participating in SMOFcamp.