CONtinuity Planning
So....I'll be interested to hear the post-con news regarding the Great Wiscon Plague of 2008 for real details, but the "stomach flu" outbreak at Wiscon got me thinking about the application of Business Continuity Planning concepts to convention planning. How, as a convention, do you respond to an outbreak like the one at Wiscon...to a weather emergency.....to a situation that come suddenly out of nowhere with the potential to derail your convention. Not the kind of thing that makes one feel warm fuzzies. Ah well. At least I could use this event as a good scenario discussion for the Gaylaxicon 2008 concomm.
So yes, here I am in my post_Wiscon unwind night in Madison. I have Diet Coke and snacks, a laptop and no people. Life is good. Though to be honest, given the casualness with which I approached Wiscon this year I'm not feeling as frazzled as usual. It *was* a fun convention and I saw oodles of people...many of whom bertaed me for my LiveJournal absence so I again promised to try harder with LiveJournal. Many of these folks are good friends who I, unfortunately, don't get to see often enough so it's a reasonable plan. But no writing goals...although I'd love to have time for it, I've come to accept that until the convention is over and the degree is obtained it's not likely.
Highlights of the convention were of course the people, and chatting up Gaylaxicon, and acquiring a new hero - a wonderfully energetic and positive young man who at age 14 has just come out to his Catholic School 8th grade class. He was just plain delightful, as was his Mom. I also spent a fair bit of time networking with other organizers for some of the other progressive genre non-profits....talking 501c3 status, fundraising, organizing, and most of all how to share resources and not keep inventing the wheel separately. I'm energized for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Yeah, it was Wiscon, have to be energized for something.
So yes, here I am in my post_Wiscon unwind night in Madison. I have Diet Coke and snacks, a laptop and no people. Life is good. Though to be honest, given the casualness with which I approached Wiscon this year I'm not feeling as frazzled as usual. It *was* a fun convention and I saw oodles of people...many of whom bertaed me for my LiveJournal absence so I again promised to try harder with LiveJournal. Many of these folks are good friends who I, unfortunately, don't get to see often enough so it's a reasonable plan. But no writing goals...although I'd love to have time for it, I've come to accept that until the convention is over and the degree is obtained it's not likely.
Highlights of the convention were of course the people, and chatting up Gaylaxicon, and acquiring a new hero - a wonderfully energetic and positive young man who at age 14 has just come out to his Catholic School 8th grade class. He was just plain delightful, as was his Mom. I also spent a fair bit of time networking with other organizers for some of the other progressive genre non-profits....talking 501c3 status, fundraising, organizing, and most of all how to share resources and not keep inventing the wheel separately. I'm energized for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Yeah, it was Wiscon, have to be energized for something.