Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:35:01 -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>

At 08:53 AM 3/10/02 -0500, Candy wrote:

>Worldcon size is overwhelming, but 500- 700 is a nice number.  I like
>meeting new people.  At a 150 person convention I have a total of 150
>potential new people to meet.   Half of those I already know, of the 75
>left over, only a few of those look like the kind of people I want to hang
>with.  I don't happen to hang with gamers and frankly, I'm enough of a snob
>that I don't want to hang with losers (and you have to admit it, but most
>fen start out as losers and many never move past that) so that gives me a
>very small group as potential new friends.
>
>A larger con will have the same mix, but my potential friend list goes
>up.  At too large a con, I can't weed the potential friends out of the rest
>of the mix, so that is why I like conventions of over 500 and less than 1000.
>

Yes, but a 500-700 convention requires a much much larger space, more
organization, more money and more activities.  Quite frankly, I doubt that
WSFA can afford to run a con of this size until we build up a few years at
a smaller size and build up a pool of volunteers to run activities.