Comments | sartorias: Bittercon Online

sartorias

Bittercon Online

Aug 30, 2008 09:54

So yesterday I had a chat meeting with Sharyn Lilley of Eneit Press and Tech Wizard Nyssa, and we officially turned from people with an idea into a committee.

The online con is slated for [edited] 13 March 2009. Read on if you've an interest.
( Read more... )

flycon

Comments 79

(The comment has been removed)

sartorias August 30 2008, 18:15:11 UTC

Thanks! And I don't--please send it to me via sherwood at sff dot net

and again thanks!

asakiyume August 30 2008, 17:43:32 UTC

I'm going to have to lurk at first and see how it works. I only just had the confidence, this last round of bittercon, to host a question; I really have never done chats and fora at all, and my small exposure to IM has persuaded me that it's not a format I do very well with. I want to support this effort, but I think I have to see it in action before I really know how I can help out. I apologize; I know nothing gets off the ground if people hang back. But I do have a feeling you'll have lots of immediate takers, so that's assuaging my guilt a little bit...

sartorias August 30 2008, 18:16:17 UTC

Sure! Maybe you could be a volunteer to think up and offer questions for a topic or guest--there will be plenty of notice posted beforehand. Or just be a participant, which is A-OK too! *g*

asakiyume August 30 2008, 18:53:53 UTC

I'm sure I could volunteer to think up and offer questions--I have a ready supply of those :-) I just might need handholding to manage *doing* it--even for that online auction for marriage rights, I had to be walked through it. But I can learn!

sartorias August 30 2008, 19:21:23 UTC

Sure thing! As much or as little as you are comfortable with.

lacylu42 August 30 2008, 17:56:45 UTC

Barbara DeMarco Barrett is author of "Pen on Fire," hosts a radio show about writers and teaches at UCI in California. I was in her private writing group for a while there, and I could approach her about being a guest if you're interested.

Here's her website: http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/

sartorias August 30 2008, 18:17:37 UTC

That would be awesome--please do!

If she's at all interested, she could write to me at sherwood at sff dot net, which is the address I'm using to ingather data. (I don't quite trust gmail.)

And thanks!

asakiyume August 30 2008, 18:54:46 UTC

Out of curiosity, can you say what's been going wrong with gmail? I ask because I switched to it when I had problems with Verizon, and I want to know what issues to watch out for...

sartorias August 30 2008, 19:20:54 UTC

Well, aside from the whole shttp thing various people have been talking about, and the ase with which it can be hacked, there is the difficulty (at least for me) of forming distinct folders with mail. You can star them, but that seems to do exactly nothing. My other address, I can organize the mail with two keystrokes.

Thread 8

frumiousb August 30 2008, 17:59:23 UTC

I'm not sure if I have any useful qualifications, but am happy to volunteer time.

Ill-thought ideas for discussion:

--something about increasing trade paperbacks versus MMP in genre writing as evidence for crossover/increased respectability of speculative fiction. (this is surely too specific).

--role of social media in driving recommendations and buying in relevant genres, role of the book reviewers online-- pro and amateur. do recommendations work? how directly do writers like their readers to talk back?

--sf and fantasy as community: fan fic, blogs, webzines, games and books. do writers need to think past the books? obligation, opportunity, useless waste of time?

sartorias August 30 2008, 18:18:55 UTC

These are excellent topics.

Re the volunteering, if you could write to me via sherwood at sff. net I can get you on the interal email list that will go to volunteers.

And thanks!

muuranker August 30 2008, 18:10:58 UTC

Really, everything except costume masquerade.

If you wanted a masquerade, it would be possible on Flickr, I think.

The social media and speculative-fiction-as-community are both interesting discussion ideas.

sartorias August 30 2008, 18:19:43 UTC

Oh yes, I so agree.

And the Flickr masquerade is an excellent idea.

(The comment has been removed)

muuranker August 30 2008, 22:14:15 UTC

I had a quick look, and the Flickr options are laid out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups_create.gne

I guess what we would want is a Public invitation only group, or a Private group.

A Public invitation group could be set up in such a way that con-goers who are not Flickr members could still attend the Masquerade ... but then so could everyone else in the whole wide world.

Hmm... we could do this 'with judges, and everything'.

Thread 5