How con-runner politics work (please link)
I am starting to see comments which assume that the convention runners of SF are doing nothing/ignoring the problem/siding with the perpetrator (I saw this also at Easter and everything I say here applies to every debacle in SF I've lived through, including one I was responsible for myself.)
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Convention running politics are *slow*. Most of us have day jobs and even with the internet it can take a week or more for a discussion to do a full circuit of the participants via email.
Convention running means working through systems that can feel archaic, because they were intended to ensure that no one person is vital to an enterprise.
Convention running involves committing yourself to a public "face", which means that whatever you think, your basic choice is to wait through the process (you may then storm off if you choose, but you don't blab the conversation while it's happening).
In SF, convention runners are themselves a community but they are every bit as diverse as the attendee community from which they come and you can assume that any argument the attendees are having, we are having too, and it will probably be very similar because our demographic isn't that different.
We have our own convention in Philadelphia this winter. I will be asking for Harassment Policies and their execution to be on the agenda, and I assume the same request will come from others.
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Keep firmly in mind that "bringing into disrepute" is as much an offence in con running as it is in any business, but keep in mind also that we don't have offices and we don't meet every day.
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Convention running politics are *slow*. Most of us have day jobs and even with the internet it can take a week or more for a discussion to do a full circuit of the participants via email.
Convention running means working through systems that can feel archaic, because they were intended to ensure that no one person is vital to an enterprise.
Convention running involves committing yourself to a public "face", which means that whatever you think, your basic choice is to wait through the process (you may then storm off if you choose, but you don't blab the conversation while it's happening).
In SF, convention runners are themselves a community but they are every bit as diverse as the attendee community from which they come and you can assume that any argument the attendees are having, we are having too, and it will probably be very similar because our demographic isn't that different.
We have our own convention in Philadelphia this winter. I will be asking for Harassment Policies and their execution to be on the agenda, and I assume the same request will come from others.
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Keep firmly in mind that "bringing into disrepute" is as much an offence in con running as it is in any business, but keep in mind also that we don't have offices and we don't meet every day.