Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:26:56 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What shpuld Capclave be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

lee gilliland wrote:
>
> Why do you want to "swell the throng"?  More bodies don't guarantee a better
> convention.   I think Capclave should find and exploit an underused niche
> and
> not try to be All Cons For All People.   And it seems to me that Capclave #1
> has
> already moved promisingly in that direction.
>
> --Ted White
>
> I believe the saying is, "The more, the merrier."  Cons are for people.

I'll agree with Ted on this one.  Too many cons have had too much
trouble by becoming meeting places for unrelated groups -- drunk
unattended teenagers, Goths, S&M types, gamers, LARPs, you name it.
Problem is not just that "they're not our type" -- they're not each
others' type either.  You end up with large indigestible lumps of people
who actively dislike each other.

Capclave had an excellent mix of people.  Everybody seemed to talk to
everybody else.  Everybody seemed to have a good time.  We need to keep
this and build on it, and not just start taking out newspaper ads.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."