Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:26:48 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What shpuld Capclave be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Walter wrote:
>
>I like the Readercon concept---it's probably where I live and
>breathe---but I'm not sure that's who WSFA is.  WSFA does go to
>the movies, and does watch TV.  WSFA (and to a greater degree
>this region) has a not too small contingent of fanzine fans.
>WSFA has science geeks, medieval reenactors, maybe some LARP
>players, the odd filker, and even a couple of artists.  I think
>the variety within WSFA promoted the variety of activities at
>Disclaves making them into rather well-balanced regionals.
>

Oh absolutely.  But right now and for the foreseeable future, Capclave is a
small convention, in a small hotel.  We don't have the space (and I suspect
not enough volunteers) to do everything that Disclave did, let alone
everything that every WSFA member might want.  So, I think it is better to
concentrate on doing a few things well, then perhaps slowly expanding, than
it would be to try to do too much and not do it respectably.

Lee wrote

>Walter raises an excellent point - one of the reasons WSFA is such a
>satisfying club, and one of the reasons Disclaves were so great, was the
>range of people and activity.  We lose that and we've lost part of what make
>WSFA so much fun.

True, but we're talking Capclave not Disclave.  We can't just follow the
old Disclave model that WSFA wound up not being able to sustain.  We don't
have the space, the money, or the people to do everything.