On Tuesday 24 February 2004 21:05, Troy C. Belding wrote: > rec.arts.sf.announce > <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.arts >.sf.announce> (another place to advertise)
Cool. When we get our GOH list finalized. I also need to buy an ad in Linux Journal. > 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. If you can get a list from Eric Flint of local Austin Baen authors we should contact, that would be good. Also, if Howard ever figures out whether Novell will sponsor his trip, you'd be the guy he'd tell... Beyond that, assuming the anime talk at the japanese embassy goes well, I'd guess the next thing is Aggiecon. (I'm out of town until Aggiecon myself. I hope to attend this sunday's penguicon concom meeting in Michigan...) > I'm going to be working on what is necessary to record, at a minimum, > the major panel discussions. Cool. If we can burn CDs of this stuff and have friday's panels available for sale in the dealer's room on saturday (audio we can get the whole day in mp3/ogg format on a cd. Video crunching to divx or something, I dunno how much we could fit on a CD, it would probably have to be requests but we could burn an inventory of the GOH spotlight speeches to have in the dealer's room and have people sign up for and pick up the other panels...) And of course put all of it on the website in easily downloadable and streamable format. If people pirate it, great, that's advertising for next year. Put it on kazaa or bittorrent all you want, saves our bandwidth bills. (We can actually host torrents...) > 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. Sorry I didn't call you back last night but I got dragged into something that lasted until midnight. If we can keep the cost of the shirts at or under $10, then we can sell them for $10 bundled with preregistration and each one of those shirts will be paid for before we actually order it, so we don't have to worry about unsold shirts. Then whip up a batch we expect to sell for $12 or so at the con, and sell them to the dealers (who then charge $20, probably. I have no sympathy here, they could have gotten the shirts for half that by preregistering. :) > 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. It's _way_ too early. This is brainstorming time, let's get a big pile of panel ideas that we'd LIKE to do, but you can't actually schedule a panel for a time slot without knowing at least one person who can be on it then. Scheduling is mostly a matter of scheduling _people_. Start with the GOHs (whose schedules will be most tightly constrained) and work from there. What panels will the GOHs be on (6-8 panels for the whole con is a fairly full schedule, that can go up to about 10 but only if you include things like author signings, the banquet, and showing up at opening ceremonies.) Once the GOHs are scheduled, you start putting other people on their panels, and then you see what slots are left for everybody else. Penguicon's current head of programming, and last year's con chair (my fen side co-founder) is Tracy Worcester. Her email's having trouble at the moment, but presumably [EMAIL PROTECTED] should eventually reach her. By all means, go talk to her. (Or, on sunday when I'm there, I may just phone Troy and hand Tracy the phone and get the two of you talking to each other...) > Troy Rob
