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<blockquote data-quote="EKovarr" data-source="post: 9277048" data-attributes="member: 7044826"><p>God almighty! Would someone please explain to me why we put ourselves through this?</p><p></p><p>Let's play a LARP:</p><p></p><p><em>Congratulation! You've just negotiated a 6-figure Convention Center contract! You now have a huge, raw space, football fields of it. Girders three stories above you, concrete floor underneath you, walls somewhere out there.</em></p><p>+ Put together the main space of a Worldcon. (Don't forget the trashcans.) .</p><p></p><p><em>Congratulations! You came up with enough money to run a successful Worldcon bid!</em> </p><p>+Put together your initial budget. (Don't forget union wages.) </p><p></p><p><em>Congratulations! You have plenty of function space of different sizes spread between convention center and headquarters hotel!</em></p><p>+ Start drafting programming. (Don't forget that it's Time+Participants+Function Space and Program Tracks.)</p><p></p><p><em>Congratulations! You've discovered you need at least three departments!</em></p><p> + Figure out what else you need and start filling positions. Divisions, departments, advisors, staff. (Remember that manaaging volunteers is different.)</p><p></p><p>Do it all without people who haven't been working on and learning this stuff for years, who know what's needed. Do it without knowing who's good at what, without people in your divisions, your departments, knowing who they can recruit in their areas, including who's ready to move up Do it without connections from Australia to Austria.</p><p></p><p>Friends and I used to write LARPs, back in the days of index cards. You're expecting people to play with scraps of paper.</p><p></p><p>Stop and think instead of being scandle lemmings. Someone's discovered a conspiricy: A lot of the same people work on the differernt Worldcons! Take way the juicy conspiricy threory and you're left with a question: Why? We're on our 82 Worldcon so there must be a reason.</p><p></p><p>It might help to remember that the culture isn't some amorphous blog. It's made up of individuals. People who put time and energy into things that matter. One of the many things that matter to me is explaining Worldcons. I don't think many people are following this thread but if you start thinking that's a good start. That there might be a reason people work on multiple Worldcons. Chengdu was a scandle, you'll be the people who comment that it was one, just one year. You can stop worrying. You've even met one of these people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EKovarr, post: 9277048, member: 7044826"] God almighty! Would someone please explain to me why we put ourselves through this? Let's play a LARP: [I]Congratulation! You've just negotiated a 6-figure Convention Center contract! You now have a huge, raw space, football fields of it. Girders three stories above you, concrete floor underneath you, walls somewhere out there.[/I] + Put together the main space of a Worldcon. (Don't forget the trashcans.) . [I]Congratulations! You came up with enough money to run a successful Worldcon bid![/I] +Put together your initial budget. (Don't forget union wages.) [I]Congratulations! You have plenty of function space of different sizes spread between convention center and headquarters hotel![/I] + Start drafting programming. (Don't forget that it's Time+Participants+Function Space and Program Tracks.) [I]Congratulations! You've discovered you need at least three departments![/I] + Figure out what else you need and start filling positions. Divisions, departments, advisors, staff. (Remember that manaaging volunteers is different.) Do it all without people who haven't been working on and learning this stuff for years, who know what's needed. Do it without knowing who's good at what, without people in your divisions, your departments, knowing who they can recruit in their areas, including who's ready to move up Do it without connections from Australia to Austria. Friends and I used to write LARPs, back in the days of index cards. You're expecting people to play with scraps of paper. Stop and think instead of being scandle lemmings. Someone's discovered a conspiricy: A lot of the same people work on the differernt Worldcons! Take way the juicy conspiricy threory and you're left with a question: Why? We're on our 82 Worldcon so there must be a reason. It might help to remember that the culture isn't some amorphous blog. It's made up of individuals. People who put time and energy into things that matter. One of the many things that matter to me is explaining Worldcons. I don't think many people are following this thread but if you start thinking that's a good start. That there might be a reason people work on multiple Worldcons. Chengdu was a scandle, you'll be the people who comment that it was one, just one year. You can stop worrying. You've even met one of these people. [/QUOTE]
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