Running a Worldcon filk track

[oreouk]

This is a set of notes in no particular order which were collated by me (Lissa Allcock, should anyone be stumbling on this and not know) as a result of working on Loncon3's filk track in 2014.

I'm not kidding about the 'no particular order' bit - this is just as the memories struck me.

Comments

[pola_bear]

Thanks for sharing, it's interesting to see it all written down. And thank you so much for all the work you did for the con!

[watervole]

Curse LJ. I'm trying to add this to my memories because it's such a useful summary, but the feature doesn't seem to be working.

A lot of this is also applicable to folk festivals.

[bedlamhouse]

Adding to memories worked fine for me.

[watervole]

Working now. LJ must have been having an off-day.

[bedlamhouse]

Great list! Here's some things I would add from our experience at LoneStarCon 3 (LSC) among others - maybe this can become a wider set of experiences and notes or morph into a "guide

[oreouk]

Thanks. Once it's been up for a while and accumulated anything else we want to add I would not be averse to trying to edit into something more coherent and linear to be an ongoing resource to people running filk streams and other such events. Some of it is relevant to general con running, but there are a lot of extra things involved in running the con side of a filk con that I didn't want to include.

[eintx]

You did an amazing job.
Thank you very much!

[oreouk]

You're welcome. The three of us clearly make a good team :-)

It is definitely very helpful to have Deborah in tech support who knows how filk does things and asks questions that would not necessarily have occurred to me or Anna and provides our own tech so we were not as affected by the (if I am recalling conversations at con correctly) occasionally iffy or incorrect kit the hire company rented to the rest of the con.

[rdmaughan]

In addition to being elitist about people playing to the registration queue you also need to pick the ones sensitive enough to know when to shut up and move along. The queue cannot walk away if they don't find you entertaining and the only thing worse than a long boring queue is being annoyed while in a long boring queue.