As a result of the Open Space Programming mixer/workshop on Friday night, SMOFCon’s attendees developed the following detailed program schedule for Saturday and Sunday. Due to popular demand, programming will start at 10 AM each day. Lunch is from Noon to 2 PM. All program sessions are 55 minutes, except Saturday afternoon sessions, which are are 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Saturday, December 4
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
- Grand Ballroom: You’re So Vain: Dealing with Self-Published Writers
- Sainte Claire: When the Con Chair Is the Problem
- Santa Vesta: Bidding Bootcamp — the Follow-up
11:00 AM – 11:55 AM
- Grand Ballroom: Opening the Gates of SF/F: How to Encourage Minority Participation without Being Patronizing
- Sainte Claire: Facilities Tricks and Traps
- Santa Vesta: Smart People, Stupid Websites – Challenges of Maintaining a Volunteer-Run Website
Noon – 2 PM
- Lunch Break
- Convention Center Tour: Meet in hotel lobby at 12:55
2:00 PM – 3:25 PM
- Grand Ballroom: Youth in Fandom: How Do You Get It without Reproducing? (Attracting the Younger Generation)
- Sainte Claire: Working with a Distributed Committee
- Santa Vesta: Who Gets to Spend the Money?
3:30 PM – 4:55 PM
- Grand Ballroom: Can You Fire Your GOH? (the Wisconsin debacle)
- Sainte Claire: Managing Personalities
- Santa Vesta: Acts of Dog
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Dinner Break
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Convention Center, Room K: “Fannish Inquisition” and Site Selection for SMOFCon 29 (See walking map from hotel to Convention Center entrance)
- Presentations from bidders for SMOFCon 29 and selection of the site of the 2011 SMOFCon
- Expressions of interest for future SMOFCons
- Future Worldcons
- Renovation: 2011 Worldcon
- Chicon 7: 2012 Worldcon
- Worldcon Bid Presentations
- San Antonio in 2013
- London in 2014
- Pacific Northwest in 2015
- Kansas City in 2016
- Japan in 2017
- New Zealand in 2020
10:30 PM – ?
(or 20 minutes after Fannish Inquisition ends, whichever is later)
- Santa Vesta Room: Probability & Statistics Seminar. $10 lab fee. Maximum 30 participants.
Sunday, December 5
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
- Grand Ballroom: Convention Marketing and Social Media
- Sainte Claire: Bringing in the Replacement
- Santa Vesta: Program: More than Panels
11:00 AM – 11:55 AM
- Grand Ballroom: Renovation — 69th Worldcon Open Meeting
- Sainte Claire: The “Same People” Paradox
- Santa Vesta: Welcoming Newbies into Fandom
Noon – 2 PM
- Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 2:55 PM
- Grand Ballroom: 10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Chaired a Worldcon
- Sainte Claire: Marketing and Other Hard Things
- Santa Vesta: The Unopposed Worldcon bid Effect
3:00 PM – 3:55 PM
- Grand Ballroom: Party 101
- Sainte Claire: Preventing Volunteer Burnout
- Santa Vesta: Dealing with Difficult Attendees
4:00 PM – 4:55 PM
- Grand Ballroom: Feedback Session, Wrap-up, and Look Forward to SMOFCon 29
My name was suggested for the ’10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Chaired a Worldcon’ panel, but as I mentioned yesterday, my flight leave at 3:50pm on Sunday so I’ll have left before the panel’s scheduled start at 2pm.
We’d have loved to have your input on that, Vince; I didn’t know your schedule, and would probably have moved it to an earlier time if I had. We sometimes don’t manage communication as well as we might.
Adding on — that’s me saying I wasn’t available for you to find so we could change things, not that you failed at communicating to me!