Can we please just stop having guests of honor from now on?

[nemorathwald]

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.

Comments

Re: That *Does* Suck

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

What we used to do and Polaris a big multi-track media SF con in Toronto also did was gather all the tracks heads and related concom in one room to hammer out the schedule using a blank wall and lots of post its. Its allows a big picture view of the schedule that you cannot get from a spreadsheet. This is done well before the convention happens, with pizza.

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

[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

Several heads of programming have done that in the past for Penguicon. It worked.

This year, there were no programming team meetings at all, to my knowledge. No one took ownership.

Re: That *Does* Suck

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

That had better change for next year when Penguicon moves to the Big House in Dearborn.