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From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at radix.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More on CapClave vs. Ditto
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:05:56 -0700
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>--- Original Message ---
>From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Date: 5/14/02 1:51:45 AM
>
>"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
>> Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com> wrote:

>> > And there was no way to prevent Capclave from colliding
with a con
>> > somewhere in the world.  We tried to avoid local conflicts,
that's
>> > all that can be reasonably expected.
>>
>> Right.  Ditto isn't even in the same *country*.
>
>This year it isn't, but it usually is and one was held as nearby
as Virginia
>Beach.  Like Corflu and Westercon, it is hosted by different
cities each
>year.

And is a convention that attracts literate people, the same sort
that we enjoy having at Capclave.  Trying to avoid local conflicts
is good, trying to also avoid events that would create an 'interest
conflict' for people, as seems to have happened this time, is
also something to pay attention to.

In deciding to hold the first Capclave n the fall a number of
things came into play.  In some ways I still wish that we'd gone
with the weekend near April 15th -- Follow Your Tax Dollars to
Washington! -- because, IIRC, there's a bigger hole in the convention
calender then, hotel bookings aren't as tight, and things like
that.  On the other hand having a relaxed, literate, post Worldcon
convention is also good.

So - we do what we can.

Elspeth