Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:31:40 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Perhaps the best canceled panel at Lunacon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>  Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Perhaps the best canceled panel at Lunacon
>
>> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 3/23/2010 11:25 AM
>>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>> So This Is Your First Con, Friday at 4pm
>
>>> I guess at that time all the first timers were still trying to figure
>>> out how to pin on their badges.  Maybe if they'd had it a bit
>>>  later in the day?
>> Or still getting to the hotel.  Or checking in. Or ... well,
>> the list goes on.
>
> After 6 PM might have been a better time.  It is sort of the
> thing that has to be done early in the con, but maybe it
> should be posted at the registration desk so people arriving
> don't have to have read the schedule to know about it. Most
> people don't read the schedule right away because they've
> arrived late and are only checking to see what's on Right Now.

Programming before 18:00 on a Friday is dumb. Actually, I wouldn't have
anything at all before 19:00, at the earliest, and maybe 19:30. If it's a first
con, they're *not* going to leave work or school early, and will want to eat
dinner.

  mark