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I am successfully resisting the urge to chew out a Guest of Honor. "I forgot about you and wouldn't answer your emails until today. But can I put a couple of talks on the schedule?" Fuck yes you can get on the schedule, and justify the UTTERLY WASTED money we are spending to fly you out. Never mind that the book is due to the printer in two hours. FUCK YOU, CELEBRITY BIG-SHOT. I DO NOT HONOR YOU.
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Date: 2011-04-20 09:26 pm (UTC)Did they try media other than email?
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Date: 2011-04-20 10:14 pm (UTC)Sorry I wound up being no help with the program book. Time kept getting away from me.
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Date: 2011-04-21 03:26 am (UTC)That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-21 07:30 pm (UTC)Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-21 07:36 pm (UTC)Let me float something out there and see what you think. What if we made the schedule in the last month, when people actually pay attention? In order to do that, one thing we would need to do is get rid of the paper schedule book, due to the time it takes to manufacture a physical artifact. We would just have an electronic version, a printed table-format schedule brochure, and the master wall schedule. And, nobody would know what is happening at Penguicon until a few weeks out. (Kind of like now, except with less anger.)
Is that worth it?
Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-21 09:33 pm (UTC)The only problem might be if sponsors pay to be in the book, and I can't recall if the Penguicon booklet has sponsors in it or not. Which may actually speak to its usefulness, if I can't remember what the booklet looks like...
-Shawn
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Date: 2011-04-21 09:57 pm (UTC)Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-22 05:36 am (UTC)Something is wrong because for ConFusion I used to be able to get a schedule done by the end of October about three months out.
It was my goal for last year until a couple of medical emergencies got in the way.
Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-22 04:26 pm (UTC)Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-22 05:30 pm (UTC)It also helps to have a modular approach tracking as many panels on the same theme in the same room through the day.
Re: That *Does* Suck
Date: 2011-04-22 05:32 pm (UTC)This year, there were no programming team meetings at all, to my knowledge. No one took ownership.
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Date: 2011-04-22 05:41 pm (UTC)