We've heard from Boston and DC that they're willing to do it... If there's a number of people who want it to happen in a place, the organisers will step forward. I think it needs to be a group led decision, not just a practical organiser based one.
On 25 Apr 2007, at 22:41, Jen Simmons wrote: I think what will matter is not the number of people who 'vote' for a city, but the reality of whether / not it will work there // especially regarding who will host and produce the event. My vote is that the people actually doing the work (presumably without getting paid, as was the case with all of the previous vloggercons) get to "vote" more/ have their wishes count. We in the peanut gallery can demand all we want -- but who is going to make it happen??? That's why it was not in New York last time -- organizers tried for NYC, but could not get a larger enough venue that was affordable. You can "decide" New York / XX-city all you want, but if there's no place for the budget we have (or people to do the work of planning the event), it ain't gonna happen there. After a long search in NYC, the Vloggercon 06 organizers started looking elsewhere -- and ended up in San Fran at the Swedish American Hall. Plus the people working on the event all started moving to San Fran. And it's easier to plan an event in the town you are living in then somewhere else. Simply 'voting' and making that be some kind of ruling decision is a bit crazy. Maybe the better question is who can plan, host, and do this whole gig?? And what cities do those people live in? // Who lives in DC who can work on this? Who is volunteering in ___ the place you are voting for _____? Jen On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:25 pm, Rupert wrote: > As if I didn't have better things to do than think up ways to decide > a venue for a convention I won't be able to attend, I just found > myself going through all the emails about Vloggercon from the last 6 > months and noting down everyone's preferences. > > If you've said that you're For a city, I've put your name under that > city, added up the totals and put it up on a page on the > Videoblogging Group Wiki. > > It's a slightly more web 2.0 way of managing the voting than doing it > by Email here, I guess. > > So if that's OK, you're now all responsible for checking it, adding > or deleting your names and amending the totals. > > I say we give it a week to decide - whichever city has the most votes > by Fri 4 May wins. Whaddya reckon? > > Go to: > http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/Vloggercon-2007-Voting > > You can vote for as many cities as you want. Just click edit page > and use the password: surge. > > Since I quickly compiled this from all the emails with subject > Vloggercon on the Yahoo list over the last six months, noting down > all preferences expressed, I'm sure there will be mistakes - don't > shout, just change. > > If you think it's a crap idea, fair enough, just say so here. > > Right, now I'm going to go and get a life. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
