You don't have to have a electronic schedule or hunt for stuff on the door schedules. Note on my list numbers two and three where there is a paper program book and a pocket schedule.
You have your choice between a program book at the typical convention (such as no less a world-class event than the last Toronto Worldcon) that deserves to be nominated for best fiction; or the ability to fix on the fly and communicate corrections. In a way, the plan is deliberately set up to fail: if you're looking for reliability the first time around, it could be because you trust the volunteers of fandom to do their jobs. My plan is designed as almost 100% fallback because from experience it expects them not to, and prepares. This is also why Stilyagi needs an online content management system. Welcome to the real world; that's called coping with life. One can go on failing with an old way-- on the principle that the people you work with ought not to fail-- or you can adapt to the fact that unpaid volunteers will fail and make the best of it. I choose the latter.
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Date: 2005-04-19 02:48 pm (UTC)You don't have to have a electronic schedule or hunt for stuff on the door schedules. Note on my list numbers two and three where there is a paper program book and a pocket schedule.
You have your choice between a program book at the typical convention (such as no less a world-class event than the last Toronto Worldcon) that deserves to be nominated for best fiction; or the ability to fix on the fly and communicate corrections. In a way, the plan is deliberately set up to fail: if you're looking for reliability the first time around, it could be because you trust the volunteers of fandom to do their jobs. My plan is designed as almost 100% fallback because from experience it expects them not to, and prepares. This is also why Stilyagi needs an online content management system. Welcome to the real world; that's called coping with life. One can go on failing with an old way-- on the principle that the people you work with ought not to fail-- or you can adapt to the fact that unpaid volunteers will fail and make the best of it. I choose the latter.