Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:00:35 -0400
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: "concerns about the number of new
 fan-orientedevents"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> Maybe I'm just cynical . . . but the phrase "sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, etc." =
>  - along with the dates suggested for the big pow-wow strikes me as being =
> from someone who doesn't know about Fandom (atleast as we know Fandom . . =
> .).

>From the message I got from him and from what has been said on the
BWSMOF list, he's worked on Worldcons and had chosen the dates as being
either before or after ConJosé.  The feedback he's gotten has shown him
that the dates are still too close so he'll be sending something out
with other suggestions.  He liked my idea of Philcon but had wanted to
get together before the fall convention cycle started so that people
could talk about cooperating on things like promotion and attendance.
>From his phrasing there are at least several people involved in this.

If you look more closely at the site you mentioned you'll see that he
apparently owns a gaming shop in Philly.  Beyond that I don't know
anything about him, but Inge Heyer, of Shore Leave and a member of
BWSMOFs, has asked him some good questions.

That's all that I've got right now.

Elspeth