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[Troy C. Belding]

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What do I personally need to do?   What can people think of?  I don't 
want to do the technical check of the hotel till closer - like in late 
August, or early September.

I'm going to be working on what is necessary to record, at a minimum, 
the major panel discussions. 

T-shirts - I know of a couple of shops here in town.  Houston is big, 
for some odd reason, for companies that do custom shirts.  We can get 
them pretty cheaply (I think I emailed earlier with some of the stats)

The more colours, the more expensive.  In general, think that a small 
run of shirts, with one colour on one side, will run about $4.00 per shirt.
Add a dollar per colour, and a dollar for the other side.  (I'm not sure 
if it's a dollar per colour per side or not.  )  Then, there's a setup 
fee for the artwork.  (the place I'm looking at doesn't mention one, and 
I can probably get a lot waived if we give the artwork to them in the 
right format - but let's assume anyway)

Thus, a one colour shirt (which is my preferred for a Con shirt) done 
front and back would cost approximately $5.00 a shirt. 
Yes, this is silkscreening. 

I personally think we need to start hardening up panels and time slots 
now.  It's early, and we don't have everyone, but that's fine.  Let's 
build up the tracks, then we can start fitting square holes into round 
pegs.   If we hammer enough, the panel will change as well.

Troy