Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:38:34 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What should Capclave be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 10:25 PM 03/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>> Done.  http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j96/9/disclave.txt
>
>Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at radix.net> wrote:
> > May I add my encouragement to Keith's?  While a number of quite
> > useful things were said at that meeting as I recall the only actions
> > resulting from it were some index cards with what a couple of people
> > liked about Disclave on them, now lost,
>
>Are you sure you're not thinking of the time, years later, when
>you circulated cards for everyone to write what they liked about
>Disclave on?
>
> > and the WSFA president calling for a committee report with
> > decreasing frequency as time went on.
>
>Of the four committee members, two haven't been to a meeting in nearly
>four years, and one is dead.
>
>Of the 29 people at that meeting, 13 haven't been to a meeting this
>year (at least as of the end of last month -- I haven't yet seen the
>March 1st attendance).  Three of them were gone by the end of 1996,
>one more by the end of 1997, two more left in 1998, three more in
>2000, and three more (who may yet return) in 2001.
>
> > It would be nice if we can do a bit better this time and I think
> > that, starting fresh with a new convention, we are.  But I'd much
> > prefer that my mythical descendants don't have to go through that
> > particular meeting all over again.
>
>Disclave lasted from 1950 through 1997.  If Capclave lasts from 2001
>through 2048, I'll be satisfied.  In 2049 we can discuss what to call
>our next convention, and what to do differently.
>
>As for the answer to your original question, I go to cons mostly just
>for conversation.  To me, the purpose of programming is to attract
>people who are fun to talk with.  So long as there are interesting
>people there, and it's easy to get to there, there's food in the con
>suite, and there isn't anything horribly wrong such as fascist hotel
>security, bitter cold air conditioning, fire alarms going off, water
>pouring out of the ceiling, etc, I'm happy.
>--

I have to agree with Keith.