Photos

[jcholewa.livejournal.com]

I've put some photographs up on Arisia's Facebook event page. More are coming. Just a friendly note that if you see yourself in any pictures that you would not like to be in, please let me know, and I'll delete the picture or obscure your part of it, whichever I feel is more appropriate. I also have larger-sized originals if you like one of you and want a better copy.

BTW, the con guys did a pretty bang-up job this time around. I wish other conventions were run like this, and I'm already registered for and looking forward to next year's. :)

-JC (the stair climbing and cheesecake guy)

Comments

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

What went right? Inquiring minds want to know, and emulate! ...respectfully. :)

[jcholewa.livejournal.com]

Oy, it's so many little things. Having somebody visit each panel around the halfway mark to record rough levels of attendance for later analysis, having a con suite and keeping it regularly stocked with nerdfuel around the clock (also, allowing the occasional vendor to take it over with their own food donations is a really great idea, because it means sudden influxes of less junky food and an easy way to get them some advertisements), having a Filthy Pierre style party board and flyer table.... Having a "how are we doing so far?" panel each day after the first instead of a final hour gripe session is a pretty spectacular idea, because if something's up, you can qualm issues before heads explode.

I recommend making it a bit easier to volunteer. Since I'm still in Con-mood, I have the urge to take pre-Wicked Thursday off and offer my capacity for grunting at set-up, but I suddenly realize that the word "volunteer" doesn't seem exist on your site (http://www.google.com/search?q=volunteer+site%3Awickedfaire.com). Wicked Village seems to be the place to go for this, but I know to search there because I already know WF.

They doubtless have other ways to corral everybody. I do know that my prereg had been lost, but the matter was resolved so quickly that I was only delayed about ninety seconds. There was a clear chain of command, so everybody knew what they were doing and, for the stuff out of their scope, they knew exactly where to escalate questions and problems.

Last thing I can suggest without taking over this post with OT is that having a separate hotel liaison and a separate party liaison would be a very smart idea, especially since your event, like Arisia, wants to be very party heavy, and relations between those two groups are very critical and can induce drama. But you already know that part.

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

(Indeed, talking about this here in relation to Wicked would be rather OT, but this is great info on Arisia, and will be really helpful for Wicked! Thank you!)

[archangelbeth]

Where are the photos? I cannot see them (and I've looked on all the tabs) to tell whether I'm in any pictures I don't want to be in... (Which probably wouldn't be the case, but I'd want a copy of my own, you see.)

I am not a Facebook member and Do Not Want to be.

[minkrose]

I couldn't see the photos until I logged in. I don't think you can see them if you are not a member (which is good for some level of privacy).

There were only 148 uploaded and I went through them in about 10 minutes. If you have a friend with an account, they could screen them for you.

[archangelbeth]

I don't have any nearby friends with facebook accounts.

*sigh*

[jcholewa.livejournal.com]

Hm. I tried one of the popular picture services a while ago (I think it was flickr or photobucket, but I do not recall specifically) but they complained that I wasn't paying them and thusly limited the number of pictures I put up. If you can recommend a good free place to put them, I can upload them there as well. I might only leave them there for limited periods of time, though (like a few weeks or something).

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't there some way to open up selected picture sets and other
chosen pages to the general public? That would be much more useful.
If farcebook hasn't given its users that capability yet, they need
to get busy.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting these.

- the one who was either in a top hat or a strange red-and-black hat when we chatted

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kollision/]

Yay! Thank you for taking so many fun pictures. ^_^

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting these.

- the one who was either in a top hat or a strange red-and-black hat when we chatted

[squbbly-vanilla.livejournal.com]

Haha, looks like you got a picture of me at my people-watching perch (http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?page=6&oid=65375762177&aid=-1&auser=&view=all#/photo.php?pid=3276913&op=13&o=all&view=all&subj=65375762177&aid=-1&oid=65375762177&id=507228838, girl in gray sweatshirt). Is it cool for me to include the pic in my con report with credit?

[jcholewa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure. All my photographs are pretty much public domain despite the lack of explicit Creative Commons tagging.

[squbbly-vanilla.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you!

[jcholewa.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention. If you need it bigger, the original is 3264x2448, so let me know.