Comments | burnunit: a long lever

burnunit

a long lever

Oct 27, 2008 12:43

We have decided to change CONvergence to a four day convention, effective for 2009 and going forward. I am going to discuss this change in this post. We have spent a lot of time evaluating the ups and downs of a four day convention. We assert that the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms, by a significant margin. We have learned so many ( Read more... )

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birdfigment October 27 2008, 18:04:09 UTC

Good luck. I look forward to volunteering again - and maybe someday when we live in the area and I have, oh, a steady job there and everything, then maybe I'll get crazy and get involved in the running of the thing.

burnunit October 28 2008, 15:48:33 UTC

Yes. Yes, you really should get crazy.

433 October 27 2008, 18:22:31 UTC

Awesome. And not just because it mentioned me.

Oh, for the glory days when I sent an email in the morning, came back from work and had 180 new messages in my inbox. Yipes!

Thanks! burnunit October 28 2008, 15:49:28 UTC

I know you just scan people's livejournals looking for your name. I tried to bury it behind a cut to force you to overcome your gnatlike attention span.

lexinatrix October 27 2008, 18:40:24 UTC

One of the reasons I stepped up to a co-head position in the Guests Dept is because I wanted to be the change. Hopefully it's for the better, but even if it's not, at least we tried to improve instead of squandering the talent of the folks we're lucky to have volunteer for us in all manner of capacities.

Yes burnunit October 28 2008, 15:50:43 UTC

No more squandering, please! I think it's exciting you're co-heading, by the way. Based on what Perrin described to us of his and the team's plans, that whole division has some really exciting things going on.

theseamster October 28 2008, 01:33:06 UTC

Well said, sir. Amazing post... thank you for spelling out your perspective so eloquently.

433 October 28 2008, 03:38:08 UTC

What are you doing up so late?!? You're in Germany!

Actually... theseamster October 28 2008, 08:18:53 UTC

You're completely wrong, as usual. We got back this evening, landing around 6:30-7:00. We have tomorrow off and then return to the office on Wednesday.

burnunit October 28 2008, 15:51:37 UTC

Thanks! I know it's long. I am really trying to be sincere, but to have it described Eloquence is a bonus.

jiawen October 28 2008, 08:12:48 UTC

For what it's worth, Minicon has largely put the high res thing behind us. A lot of the old guard have moved on or apologized. There are a lot of new people involved; we're trying to bury hatchets. I'd love to see you at Minicon. (And by the way, I look forward to buying THAC0 again -- I hope you get some money from that!)

indeed burnunit October 28 2008, 16:02:29 UTC

Well, in fact it's worth a lot! :-D But seriously I think one of the things I hoped to make clear was that the changes to CONvergence are about culture and sustainability. And my takeaway was that for all the brouhaha, a close reading of those olden days of Minicon's changes were about similar things, reflecting on what the community wanted and sustaining the original goals of the convention. I guess it's a maturity thing for me? To feel I recognize more clearly now what was going on, Even if I disagree with the details of implementation ( ... )