Randall Clague wrote:
> The problem is that the number of expected attendees is a soft number,
> an estimate, and the con's suppliers don't have faith in it. They
> look at the number of registrations, which is lower than the concom
> hoped. So if the expected number of attendees actually shows up, life
> is good - but for the nonce, the concom can't buy anything on credit.
Well ... it doesn actually work that way, but the effect of lower
numbers is that you're reluctent to spend money since you don't know
what the final income will be. If you end up having extra it's very
easy to send some back to people. If you spend it early and then don't
have enough to pay all your bills, you're in a world of hurt.
Especially if expected attendance is significantly below what was
originally forcast.
And, if anyone wants to know about running SF conventions or
worldcons, let's take it off the main list and I can tell you all
about it in excrutiating details, complete with horror and hero
stories. (BTW, for those not in the know I attended my first worldcon
in 1974, chaired my first SF convention in 1976 and have run 17 cons,
worked well over 100 and attended MANY more than that in the last
almost 30 years.)
Michael
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each day that a citizen would need to intelligently exercise his
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This clearly can lead to a disaster in democracy."
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