This isn't what I wanted.
I know how hard everyone on the RBW 2009 team is working right now. We're currently at the same stage, organisationally speaking, right now as we were 3 weeks before the con last year and the event is really coming together. All the core staffers are working every free hour they have to get designs, event schedules, submissions, budgets, deposits and a million other things sorted in time for us to go live with registration on the 11th.
There have been difficult decisions that were made with the information available to us at the time. These decisions weren't easy to make by any stretch of the imagination, but they we're neccesary to make sure that we were ready to go live, based on what we knew at the time, and now we're feeling the consequences of them. It seems I might already have lost the friendship of someone very close to me over this situation and that's an indescribably depressing feeling.
I never wanted any of this to get personal. I tried my utmost to tread the line of professionalism the whole way and I will continue to do so. I know that we wont be replying to anything negative that's said about the convention in an official capacity, since this will just trigger some kind of pointless flame war that wouldn't be in the interest of the event to get involved in. But I can't sit here and say nothing.
So this is me, as a person, not as a member of RBW staff, saying to the friend I might have lost over this that it was never personal, it wasn't planned all along, we thought what we were doing at the time was necessary, the idea of not having you as my friend sucks beyond description and that I hope you can forgive us someday and that we can be friends again.
I really, really hope so.
There have been difficult decisions that were made with the information available to us at the time. These decisions weren't easy to make by any stretch of the imagination, but they we're neccesary to make sure that we were ready to go live, based on what we knew at the time, and now we're feeling the consequences of them. It seems I might already have lost the friendship of someone very close to me over this situation and that's an indescribably depressing feeling.
I never wanted any of this to get personal. I tried my utmost to tread the line of professionalism the whole way and I will continue to do so. I know that we wont be replying to anything negative that's said about the convention in an official capacity, since this will just trigger some kind of pointless flame war that wouldn't be in the interest of the event to get involved in. But I can't sit here and say nothing.
So this is me, as a person, not as a member of RBW staff, saying to the friend I might have lost over this that it was never personal, it wasn't planned all along, we thought what we were doing at the time was necessary, the idea of not having you as my friend sucks beyond description and that I hope you can forgive us someday and that we can be friends again.
I really, really hope so.