LJ event at Arisia 2006?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Everyone seems to agree that there should be some sort of LJ event at Arisia next year. "Mixer" and "social" are the words I've heard most often. But what form should the event take?

I guess part of the answer depends on what people here would like to achieve. To meet LJ friends face-to-face? Increase their friend lists? What else?

Please share your ideas.

Comments

Re: thoughts from previous events

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of panel as 'set time daytime event'. The Terrace Room would probably be good for a decent sized event that could be loud.

Re: thoughts from previous events

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

That would be good, yeh.
I like the sticker idea, too. I know someone was offering them, but I didn't manage to catch one, shall have to make a more devoted effort next year. (It confuses me when people actually call me "mathilde", but it also bears no resemblance to my real name.)

Re: thoughts from previous events

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Loud? Why loud?

If I had money to burn I'd consider setting up an LJ suite...preferably with at least a few laptops connected to the net, so that people could make entries in their journals round the clock!

Ah, dreams...

Re: thoughts from previous events

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

Loud? Why loud?

Potentially lots of people talking? I figure that could annoy other folks nearby if they were trying to have a panel, hence the suggestion of the Terrace room.

As to your question about seperating the LJ folks by age - the daytime item is a nice all ages social, the evening party for those young 'uns out there that just want to party all night, "Feed my ravenous ego, and meet hot bi chixxors." type of stuff.

Have the Party on Friday night (usually a low party night, better chance of drawing more folks) and the social on Saturday noon-ish (the party types should be semi-concious by then). Easy enough?

then again I can say this when it is far away time wise and there is nothing stopping the idea from being easy.

Re: thoughts from previous events

[dda.livejournal.com]

As you may know, Events controls Terrace so any suggestions should be sent to events@arisia.org. Note also that Terrace is pretty far from any (current) net connections in the hotel so any posting would have to be done off-line and then people could scurry over to Alcott or the Mezzanine to hit Send. ;-)

I would see this as similar to the Drum Circle event; essentially unstructured time to be handled by the event runner. No tech requirements (unless a net connection could be gotten down there) and probably minimal food/drink.

A similar idea would be to hold a panel in Terrace for the 50+ minutes but have time afterward for mingling and exchanging names, picking up HBBs, etc. so people don't have to run off to make room for the next panel.

Re: Tech requirements

[xdaemon.livejournal.com]

If the hotel can give me a place to plug in, we can have a line run down there and a WAP dropped in... we can run it along with the intercom feed for the Masq. green room. I think the nearest place we could jack in is up on the Mezz, but that's not a problem. :-)

Re: Tech requirements

[dda.livejournal.com]

we can run it along with the intercom feed for the Masq. green room.

Hehe, not the infamous intercom feed! :-) A WAP would work well as I'm sure it would fill the room.

I never got my machine down to the Mezz; did they have a WAP or three set up there?

Re: thoughts from previous events

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Wiring in wasn't really a consideration... I didn't bother bringing a laptop this year as in past years it had been useless and heavy to lug around. Heck even the internet room was only mildly usable since the public terminals were pretty klunky, ran under software that didn't deal well with many graphics and had screens smaller than my notebook...

I checked email once and checked weather reports once and that was it for the internet room.

Re: thoughts from previous events

[dda.livejournal.com]

I didn't bother bringing a laptop this year as in past years it had been useless and heavy to lug around.

I brought my laptop for several reasons, not least of which is that it helped run the Artist GoH's slideshow presentation. :-) But I had good connectivity where I needed it (my room, the Internet room) and didn't lug the thing anywhere else. In past years, I've written LJ posts and then wandered down to the Internet room only to find it lock. Radio doesn't care, though, so I was able to connect anyway. :-)