I know at least two people on this list are in San Diego. (Disclaimer: one of them is me.)
Hugh -----Original Message----- From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Software Collecting Expo? > I think it'd be a great idea. It would probably be good to hold it > nearby to at least one person who is organizing it, for obvious > reasons.. It might also be best to hold it out near the West Coast > since, presumably, the majority of the 'celebrities' are probably still > in that area (I could be wrong..) and thus it would be cheaper and > easier to ship them over, at least the first time. I know several of the Infocom authors are still in the Boston area. But yeah, the majority of them are probably closer to CA. > I think even if some of the 'biggies' didn't show, we could still get a > lot of them interested. Many of them are stuck now in mundane jobs and > would love to come and reminisce about the 'good ol' days' with people > who actually want to hear their stories I'm sure. It's just like > grandpa sitting by the fireplace and telling his old war stories. :) Yeah, I was figuring we'd take a page from CGE and let them make keynote presentations if they wanted. Talk about their pioneering work, the culture of the industry, whatever they wanted to talk about. Let them sign fan autographs if they were willing. > Anyways in terms of contacts (and I don't know them personally really > but an e-mail address is better than nothing) I've got Don Worth > (Beneath Apple Manor), Wizardry 8 team, Tim Snider (Questbusters fame - > anyone know if Shay Addams os still around?), I've heard rumors he's still in or around Vegas. Tried to track him down when I was out there but never did. I know he's gotten out of computer gaming, though, and is now focused on games of chance. > Jeff McCord (author of > Sword of Fargoal), Ken Demarest (from Origin). And most of us my now > have come across Brian Moriarty, Scott Adams, and a few others like I dug through my list, turns out I also have: Don Woods, Silas Warner, Al Lowe... Like you said, even 50% attendance would be awesome. > We could also invite some of the more > active vendors on eBay to buy a table, etc. Definitely. Eli Tomlinson... maybe Software & More, they're in CA... There's a guy in Vegas who always seems to have a ton of stuff. I'm sure Howard Sherman of Malinche would come set up a table for his commercial I-F games. > http://www.vintage.org/events.php > Any idea if its any good - could we use it as a starting point? Never heard of it before. Sounds promising, but I'd check with them and make sure they're okay with a bunch of gamers crashing their party. > something like this. As a scientist I am very familiar with conferences > and how they work, and although I've never helped organize one myself > before, I know some professors who have. Thanks Howard. I'm a little uncertain how we'd get started, so any help you can provide would be great. Just throwing out thoughts here... Need to book a place on a date before we could do much else. Once we have a place, I think I know someone who'd be willing to print up cool invitations (physical or electronic) for the celebs. We'd need to start publicizing this well in advance... anyone know how early submissions have to be made to gaming publications? We could throw together a press release. Need to have a website with info on the show, where/when, who's going to be there, events, maybe a link to buy tickets. I assume we'd charge for admission to recoup the travel costs for the guests. Need to know the legal crap involved with that, do we remit sales tax, how's all that work? Ditto for the dealers who are going to be selling. Plenty to talk about, everyone's input is welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
