From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What do you want from Capclave?
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:45:40 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----Original Message Follows----
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What do you want from Capclave?
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:28:29 -0500

alexis gilliland wrote:

 > In the context of an art show for Capclave, Ted White asks what is the
 > benefit of having a larger convention.   This is the wrong question; if
you
 > run an annual con, either it grows or shrinks.  Capclave I was about,
300,
 > and clearly has room to grow.  When and if it gets above 1000 the
qurstion
 > can be revisited.  In the meantime an art show can help us grow the con.
An
 > addes plus is that the artists tend to be actively involved in setting
the
 > show up, being participants rather than spectators, and while such
fannish
 > activity shoulde be encouraged in its own right, I would rather party
with
 > artists than almost anybody.

I'm glad to see you posting here, Alexis.   But I can't agree with you that
an
annual con "either...grows or shrinks."  In the literal sense of never
having
*exactly* the same number of members/attendees, I'm sure that's true, but in
statistical terms, a stable size is certainly possible and practicable, and
in
fact has often been the case.

The real question is this:  Was Capclave #1 a "success"?   If it wasn't,
then
clearly improvements of some sort are called for.  But if it *was* a
success,
then only fine-tuning/tweaking is required.   From my point of view, and
from
conversations with others, Capclave *appeared* to be a success.   How does
it
rank with WSFA?

--Ted White

As Sam Lubell says, Capclave is better off growing.  Slowly?  Hey, whatever
works.   Even with the art show, I don't look for rapid growth, but at some
point we will have a hotel with the function space, and WSFA should add an
art show to thier con.  The Disclave recipe was day and night activity, with
programming + art show + huckster room by day, and parties + a really good
con suite in the evening after a decent break for supper.

Alexis

Typed by Lee, who hereby quits for the evening, so go 'way.

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