SD is not a must...as long as its okay to not have a list member (or 2) in the area where the event is held. If it is out of SD, I hope somebody else will take the lead on setup, etc. I'll certainly still attend in either place. Of course, now that CGE is no longer in Vegas, my next choice would be...Vegas.
Chris, put me on the list please. (I know you said private e-mail, but I'm already sending this one anyway). Hugh -----Original Message----- From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:56 PM To: Software Collectibles Mailing List Subject: [SWCollect] Expo Update Okay, here's the latest on my SCExpo efforts... Exchanged e-mails with the Philly and CGE staffers, which led to a phone conversation earlier this week with Evan Koblentz, who volunteers for Vintage Computer Festival on the east coast. Now I know we'd talked about CA being best for getting the maximum number of classic authors, and Evan was able to put me in touch with Sellam Ismail, who started the whole operation (www.vintage.org). Their annual show is scheduled for this October, 2 days over a weekend, so I've e-mailed Sellam and explained where we are, asked if he'd mind us sharing some of VCF's showroom space in exchange for paying some of the expenses. He seems interested, and he's definitely had experience at setting up a decent-sized expo, and I figure if we can join forces and learn the ropes let's do it, rather than trying to learn everything while doing it for the first time all by ourselves. Plus they have a showroom already, the Vintage Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA (though that would mean not doing it in San Diego as we'd talked about), so LMK your thoughts on this, is SD a must?) I figure, 8 months is probably too soon for us to set up everything by ourselves. But with the help of someone who's done it before, we could recruit our vendors and guest speakers, publicize our piece of the show, and be ready to go come October. Probably plan on the same prices for lodging our guest speakers but it'd cut down the other costs if we're able to share with VCF. At any rate, I'm going to throw together a separate mailing list for discussing / planning the expo in the next couple of days, and invite Sellam and whoever else is interested. (That way we don't clutter up SWCollect for everyone else.) Send me a private e-mail if you'd like to be added to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]/
