Arisia article in the Phoenix

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Arisia 2011: Bigger, better, and building up to Boskone

Apparently Arisia is a sexathon? I must be doing the wrong events!

As for having once been part of Boskone, I guess fact-checking is dead. :)

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

IIRC, we used to have track info in pocket programs. But I haven't saved mine from previous years.

I know that some of the people on the "Heinlein in the Bedroom" panel thought they were on a Literature Track panel, and I was getting complaints about it - I was like "whoa, that is not my track! I am not in control of that!" But it was assumed that Heinlein automatically = literature. (I think it was fan interest, like the rest of the "in the bedroom" panels.)

When people on a panel can't always tell what their focus is supposed to be, it's time to indicate that on their pocket programs. Many of us have e-mail discussions with fellow panelists before the con, but not all of us; there are always a few people who are just going off the incomplete information in the pocket program.

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, I remember that when I expressed interest in panels initially they were sorted by track, but I don't remember that being really obviously flagged on the final schedule for participants (it may well have been there, but I don't remember it jumping out at me).

Not that it was an issue for any of the ones I was on, but the situation you describe is definitely a problem!

[tehuti.livejournal.com]

A little feedback: I was one of the panelists on that panel. We spent about 50% of the panel talking about Heinlein's work and his affect on society, and the other 50 or so on how his work affected us individually. We had a very active and engaged audience, and I think the panel was quite good, one of the highlights of my con. But to relate this to the above discussion, this panel was definitely a "cross-track" panel.