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

[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. :-)