So... after reading 30 pages of this...
I'm speechless...
I was looking on the forums for clarification as to why AE could not be held at SFU and of course... could not grasp the full picture. You should see how many angry people there are (and for those out of town especially). I have no idea how it came to that. SFU gave their side of the story but as far as I see AE execs have yet to come up with a reasonable response. If the dates mentioned in SFU's explanations are indeed true then AE execs are indeed incompetent.
That aside people in the community are trying to help bring this thing together, suggesting venues and such. My 2 cents is that it'll be extremely difficult to find a suitable venue now that can meet all the requirements (not to say this is impossible). The execs just need to get the priorities straight. If I had to some say in this I would hold the con on the same date and at a possibly smaller venue. They'll have to cut some events or limit the amount of participants because of this and no doubt anger some people again. But the big picture is... the con is still a go right?
Some people have looked into UBC and it looks like there's a chance there. Personally I would prefer UBC over SFU any day XD SFU just isn't very pretty (or the parts I've been to).
I'm surprised I flipped through all those forum pages...
I was looking on the forums for clarification as to why AE could not be held at SFU and of course... could not grasp the full picture. You should see how many angry people there are (and for those out of town especially). I have no idea how it came to that. SFU gave their side of the story but as far as I see AE execs have yet to come up with a reasonable response. If the dates mentioned in SFU's explanations are indeed true then AE execs are indeed incompetent.
That aside people in the community are trying to help bring this thing together, suggesting venues and such. My 2 cents is that it'll be extremely difficult to find a suitable venue now that can meet all the requirements (not to say this is impossible). The execs just need to get the priorities straight. If I had to some say in this I would hold the con on the same date and at a possibly smaller venue. They'll have to cut some events or limit the amount of participants because of this and no doubt anger some people again. But the big picture is... the con is still a go right?
Some people have looked into UBC and it looks like there's a chance there. Personally I would prefer UBC over SFU any day XD SFU just isn't very pretty (or the parts I've been to).
I'm surprised I flipped through all those forum pages...