When I look at this site,one thing stands out for me very clearly, which is that it's about exactly one thing:
Science Fiction in San Francisco (A Perfect Fit) stages a monthly series of readings hosted by Terry Bisson <http://www.terrybisson.com/>. There is also a monthly series of movie screenings. All events take place at The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery (1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.), San Francisco (map). Proceeds from the events go to the Variety Children’s Charity <http://www.varietync.org/>. See here<http://www.sfinsf.org/index.php?page_id=7> for a full list of our sponsors and partners. It's also only 'about San Francisco' in that it happens to happen there. They have an iconic San Fran icon in their banner, and they are sponsored by iconic San Fran businesses, but they never make any effort to promote San Francisco. (They don't have to.) That said, they do some interesting things that I'd like to see us do or do more of, such as capsule biographies of all their presenters, sponsorships, etc. NESFA is an interesting contrast in that they only regional about it is the name and the Con they sponsor, which gets its own site. (see: http://www.nesfa.org/ ) Alicia mentioned Broad Universe (http://www.broaduniverse.org/) as an example of a regional org, but it's a regional org only in the sense that it sponsors a regionally-named con, WisCon [http://www.wiscon.info/]. WisCon may be regional in flavor, but it self-identifies topically ("the world's leading feminist science fiction convention"), not regionally. And gets its own site. IMO it's an open question whether our site should be somehow "about Rochester" -- or more to the point, that the group should be "about Rochester." The group is clearly *of* Rochester, and in that sense cannot help being *about* it to the extent that our members are. We've made it more about Rochester with *2034* and with the subject we're currently discussing for the next book. But that stuff wasn't in the air at the time. We didn't even have a logo when the original design was created. I'll be interested to see how other regional orgs present and focus themselves. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM, delancey <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the web site very much: it conveys very quickly what they > are. Of course, we don't have anything so iconic as the Golden Gate. > Still, umbrella heads (sorry David) are not really iconic of > Rochester. Maybe the falls? > > On Mar 3, 2:36 am, Ruhan Zhao <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have talked about what other sf groups are doing. Here is the web > > page of the sf goup in San Francisco: > > > > http://www.sfinsf.org/ > > > > Maybe we could learn something from them? > > > > Ruhan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
