On Sunday 15 February 2004 16:07, Mark A. Miller wrote: > Troy C. Belding wrote: > > Check with authorize.net - they may have a CheckGuard(tm) system as > > well as the credit cards. > > No, but Paymentech has such a setup. But it would require more equipment > and more costs...I preferably just don't want to deal with that... > > > Spreadsheets, spreadsheets, spreadsheets. Critical. You can > > actually do the scheduling with Microsoft Outlook's Calendar page if > > you felt like it. I could make up an example spreadsheet, if you want > > - I just need to know if we've finalized number of available rooms > > yet - that we'll use for 'tracks'. (not for > > art/dealers/registration) > > The only issue is the varying sizes of rooms we have, the amount of > space in each room, and possibly the changing sizes, id est, the > ballroom is 1/2 size sometimes, 1/4 size others, et cetera.
I haven't got outlook and I wouldn't use it if I did. This is not that hard, scheduling stuff in rooms is actually fairly easy (we don't care about the ballroom changing size: track the segments individually and schedule a given event in more than one room when it overlaps. Problem solved. (And we're not going to move the walls that often while the event is going. The banquet and dance require setup, for the rest it's optional.) > > Hm.. Put registration at one end of the dealers room? We'll want to > > sell t-shirts anyway. > > So we let people walk in without badges to the dealer's room? And also > having to deal with the mass of people? Er, no. We'll just have a few > workers in the dealer's room with a table section selling T-Shirts. If people get t-shirts when they preregister, we can either A) have boxes of t-shirts at registration (in addition to the ones for sale in the dealer's room), B) give people a t-shirt coupon when they register, and tell them to pick it up in the dealer's room. I think A) is a better idea, myself. > > Forms are easy enough. I can make a stab at them. We need a > > dealers signup form, a registration form, entertainment offer form? > > Entertainment offer? I'm guessing he means somebody who wants to be a panelist. I'm unaware of Penguicon having bureacracy involved with it, since no money changes hands... > > Taxes - Someone needs to call the state comptroller's office. > > I suppose I will. > > >>>> --- staff: > >>>> > >>>> We should probably have the bigger position list up here > >>>> eventually. > >>> > >>> 1 President, 12 Vice Presidents, 4 Assistant Vice Presidents, and > >>> a Minister of Silly Walks. > >> > >> And a partridge in a pear tree... > > > > I'll take the Minister of Silly Walks Position > > I'll be the patridge then. I wonder if it's possible to be a con sofa or a con recliner? > > Blacken an eye? Generally that's just "pop!" > > Snap and crackle? > > > Troy > > Helen of. Rob
