Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:02:13 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Trees... forest....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:38 PM 10/20/2005 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:

>One thing to keep in mind about growing the convention, even in small
>increments, is hotel function space.  WIth the exception ofthe Maryland
>Ballroom (that the hotel rented out for a wedding and proably made them
>a boatload of money) we had pretty much all the function space.

The big ballroom is as big as the consuite and dealer's room put together
and if the con gets bigger, there might be enough money to add that to the
function space.  If the con doesn't get bigger, there's no need for it.

An option for a growth that isn't big enough to warrant the ballroom is to
swap the con suite space with one of the program spaces or use the Staph
room for the con suite, give the prior con suite to programming and use
another space for whatever the Staph room was for (I was only in there long
enough to help Alexis move a couple of coolers up to their room after they
were unloaded, but it appeared to be for storage).  Perhaps combine it with
the Green room?  If the Green Room stayed where it was and was also Staph
space, but the programming room next to it became the con suite, that
wouldn't be inconvenient, and would open up two larger rooms for
programming up on the main floor.  While the con suite was good this year,
it did seem a bit...cavernous.  People were in there all the time, but it
was never even close to full.  A smaller room would have accommodated it
very well.

Since I wasn't involved in planning the spaces this year, there may well be
hotel issues or other reasons why the above suggestions won't work that I'm
not aware of, so if there are, just ignore me.

-- Mike B.
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