i think it needs a very different approach and a very different set of priorities though. i don't know if such a thing would be possible down there. maybe L.A. basin attitudes are just not conducive to the kind of perspective that would be needed.
i suppose if everyone down there who is able to do so wants to come up here for a little air and enjoy furcon or conifur i guess that's cool too. and i'm sure a lot of furs will say that anyone who can afford to live down there can afford to travell. it's this that i rather suspect might not be entirely the case.
even in the highest cost of living places there are ppl who find ways to survive very modestly. is it rational for austentation to be such a priority as to exclude them?
another minor question:
what becomes of the ursa majors
are arraingements being made for furcon or conifur or maybe anthrocon or somecon somewhere to host them?
at any rate i fur one sure hope so.
i'm not sure i fully understand the approach to conventions that is being taken down here.
when i was up in the northwest for a decade emersed in the sciffy community a couple of decades ago in pre furry convention days, the cons up there were run by concoms who were subsets of well and broadly established fandom bases. organizations with large memberships that held frequent periodic meetings, in some simple and inexpensive meeting room, monthly or even bi-weekly. then the seperate not for profit convention corporations would have for that year who ever was elected to the convention committee for that year from a large pool of opperating experience. keeping from year to year only the name, p.o.box and articals of incorporation.
chainges of venue and date were quite common and con attendance never suffered from them. i'm not sure i remember any two years in a row any of them were held at the same hotel.
the other thing that distinguised them was that the emphasis was always on the theme of the genre and never on little green pieces of paper. and to the best of my knowledge none of them ever failed to meet expensis. (which it does seem to me that holding costs in line is a reasonable element of doing so) i seriously do not believe the combination of avoiding unneccessary expense, and staying focused on theme, with a track record of meeting expenses at the very least, is any mere coincidence.
i think it needs a very different approach and a very different set of priorities though. i don't know if such a thing would be possible down there. maybe L.A. basin attitudes are just not conducive to the kind of perspective that would be needed.
i suppose if everyone down there who is able to do so wants to come up here for a little air and enjoy furcon or conifur i guess that's cool too. and i'm sure a lot of furs will say that anyone who can afford to live down there can afford to travell. it's this that i rather suspect might not be entirely the case.
even in the highest cost of living places there are ppl who find ways to survive very modestly. is it rational for austentation to be such a priority as to exclude them?
another minor question:
what becomes of the ursa majors
are arraingements being made for furcon or conifur or maybe anthrocon or somecon somewhere to host them?
at any rate i fur one sure hope so.
i'm not sure i fully understand the approach to conventions that is being taken down here.
when i was up in the northwest for a decade emersed in the sciffy community a couple of decades ago in pre furry convention days, the cons up there were run by concoms who were subsets of well and broadly established fandom bases. organizations with large memberships that held frequent periodic meetings, in some simple and inexpensive meeting room, monthly or even bi-weekly. then the seperate not for profit convention corporations would have for that year who ever was elected to the convention committee for that year from a large pool of opperating experience. keeping from year to year only the name, p.o.box and articals of incorporation.
chainges of venue and date were quite common and con attendance never suffered from them. i'm not sure i remember any two years in a row any of them were held at the same hotel.
the other thing that distinguised them was that the emphasis was always on the theme of the genre and never on little green pieces of paper. and to the best of my knowledge none of them ever failed to meet expensis. (which it does seem to me that holding costs in line is a reasonable element of doing so) i seriously do not believe the combination of avoiding unneccessary expense, and staying focused on theme, with a track record of meeting expenses at the very least, is any mere coincidence.