I vote "of" not necessarily "about" -- but still, then, there might be some way to convey that visually in a compelling way, with something spec ficish that may or may not be related to the region but somehow lends an icon to our identity....
On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
