Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:37:50 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: NASFiC... Re: [WSFA] Ah,it's our Gaming room for Datclave
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Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, samlubell at verizon.net wrote:

>> From: Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>
>> So... why go to all the work of putting on a convention?  Fans seeingly
>> do want to meet up with other fans - it is a "proud & lonely thing" to
>> be fan, and it's great to hang out with like minded folks.
>
> But would a relaxacon without programming really bring in people who
> don't normally come to a WSFA meeting, especially since there are a
> number of other East Coast cons around February that have programming
> plus opportunities to meet people.

It used to back in the glory days of the 1970s and 1980s.  There were
several little relaxacons that paid their own way.  I'm not sure it'd
work now.

>> It's also a potential drain on local resources. As a hypothetical
>> example, what if WSFA were to host a NASFiC.  It would be in Aug/Sept.
>> Would we cancel Capclave that year? Or would we try to run both... and
>> how many folks would bewilling to make 2 trips to the DC area in in a 2
>> month span?
>
> Disclave never recovered from the year it was cancelled.  But we could
> do what dragoncon did and combine the two.  That wouild really increase
> Capclave membership.
>
> And wouldn't this argument for not doing a NASFIC apply to a worldcon?
> It's the same time of year.  If anything a NASFIC would be easier since
> it is smaller.

What, a NASFiClave?

Boskone did a "Bosklone" one year they had a worldcon; it was smaller and
less tightly programmed but to the casual attendee it was almost the same.

=Tamar