Meanwhile, a con report: Rainbowcon

[mneme]

So as long as I'm doing a touch of backed up blogging before doing the necessary things (which is to say, upgrading our cleaning supplies and other things hilight by the recent plumbing disaster; see the last post), I might as well do a short con report -- because Rainbowcon, last weekend, was -amazing

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[mneme]

Of course! It was one of the reasons I exherted myself to write it, after all; much of my life can happily go chronicled, but some things are best shared.

Was great to see you too; I'd gotten the impression that you were reconsidering letting the con grow up, but things can evolve and change over time (Gencon, after all, was once a party in someone's basement, although one gets the impression that some of it's growth into a much less intimate event was perhaps a little planned).

Of course, if the con gets enough bigger, you'll basically be placed in the position of either capping the membership or moving it to a larger venue (or radical ideas like convincing someone to help split the event into two sites, but I have no idea if that could be a done in a way that worked). You've come pretty firmly down on which of those you'd prefer, having seen how well it worked as a "large house con". (that is, the house was large, not the con; words are hard).

But then, I think part of its charm now is that it's a tiny con with fairly usual con membership policies--which owns its current scale and which is thus small enough to feel intimate. A change to this--even making it first come, first serve (likely with precedence to current members as Filkcontinental iirc gives) would make it feel a bit more like a large party and less like a small con, although the difference can be a hair's breadth apart. I am also curious as to whether the heart of the idea could be taken to a slightly larger scale--although it would be hard to do so and have it stay/be Rainbowcon.

[solarbird]

I've also added you to the postcon report list on Emerald Forest Filk's news page, here.

[mneme]

Thanks -- and "in depth"! I thought it was a fairly shallow writeup--if one that took me around 45 minutes to write. :)

[solarbird]

It was the longest I've seen by far!

[mneme]

Its possible that my standards have been badly set -- mostly by ladymondegreen, whose con reports often take up multiple ultra-long posts, one per day.

[ext_3620337]

All good points. I don't know whether we could move it to a slightly bigger venue or not, but for the moment it isn't an issue... we had 28 members not counting the family, and we could handle half that again, before capping membership became even a serious issue. So we'll worry about that if we get there, but I suspect if it happens, we will handle it the way we do everything else... experimentally, trying this and that to see if it works, and with a lot of input from the members about what aspects they want to see retained.

[mneme]

Oh, absolutely. And no point in worrying about it until and unless it's a serious issue.