IWPS 2008 Not In Columbus

[scottwoods]

Still on the road, but certainly worth mentioning since it's about my city:

Ed Mabrey, coordinator for IWPS 2008, is moving out of state.  PSI's Executive Council voted to relieve him of hosting responsibilities for IWPS 2008 in October in Columbus, Ohio.  We deemed it not in the interest of the event to have the primary organizer states away.

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[chaptal]

sounds like a good decision scott.

[scottwoods]

I thought so, and I made the WB staff answer it twice just to be sure.

[dj_muse]

All I'm going to say is this sucks.

Is there a possibility that you'll have to reschedule 08? I mean, at this point in things, you'd figure that the planning would have to have been pretty far along.

Or not. *sigh*

Aren't there things in place to prevent this sort of thing? Or maybe there should be for the future. We won't be ready to do this for a while, I know we couldn't throw it together for this year, even with Simone being Wonder Woman in the awesome way she is.

Oh yeah, and having me as her sidekick. ;)

[scottwoods]

We do not anticipate any need to cancel IWPS 2008. We feel that would be bad, and there are plenty of places that might be good to hostr the event even with this compacted schedule.

Bear in mind: Detroit picked up WOWPS and got it done in four months. FOUR MONTHS. IWPS isn't until October. plenty of time to get it right with the right host city and other factors worked out on PSI's end.

Nothing - no contract, no stipulation, no set of standards - can prevent what life has in store. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

[momoyeahmomo]

I gotta say...I'm shocked! Ed's been saying he was going to move for awhile now, but I never expected him to go now!

[nerak_g]

Bummer- events moving around.I think it's an issue to bring up at slam master's, some way to get events in lock down.Yet even with venue issues in recent memory....Hmmmm.I might be coming around to the idea of having events in the same places...Somthing to chew on.
In a way, I'm hoping the IWPS date changes as well, since it conflicts with autumn LEAF.

I want to come to Rustbelt. :)

[momoyeahmomo]

well, the problem is, that I'm not 100% sure on how to get that "lock down" with individuals hosting events. But, then again, I'm not sure how much of a problem this has been before these couple of events.

I think I'm actually going to be able to attend SM this year!!

[scottwoods]

You bring up some interesting dicussion points, Karen. I'd like to point out first that we've only sitched one host city out EVER, and that was this year. Granted, this marks the second time this year we'll have to do it, but you really can't legislate someone's life regardless of their responsibilities. When life calls, you gotta answer.

There have been variations of the one event/one city idea in the past. One idea was having a pool of usuable cities. One was two year stints. One was one city. There have been other variations. I don't think we're at the point where we need to break it down to one city/one event for all events just yet, but I do have my personal leanings (as you can imagine).

Ouch!

[multimediagrl]

-- Yes, I think it's a very good business decision on WB's part. It's very easy for naturally-organized people to want to come to the rescue and pick up the ball, but it would take a LOT out of the crew, for sure.

-- I don't HAVE a crew, or I'd definitely offer Buffalo. We have the venues and attitude, but zero staff.

-- I thought we did have something in place for a lock-down. The problem is, I think it involves a lawsuit, right? There has to be a contract at least.

Damndamndamn.

Re: Ouch!

[scottwoods]

1) Absolutely.
2) That's too bad, because Buffalo is kind of cool.
3) Don't know what you're refering to here.

[johnnylexicon]

Hell, I wasn't too polite to ask. I was asking everyone that question yesterday.

[scottwoods]

I see!
And I appreciate the discussion.