Con Questions

>Julia Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Speaking up from lurkerland here, this
>> filking convention business seems a bit
>> precipitous to me, what with trying to
>> organise a concom already.
>
>Actually with the interest level for filking in the area
>I DON'T think it's out of line to get a concom. The core
>volunteer group is the primary initial impetus for these
>things. If it's not there, then there's no hope. Often
>these core groups are out of a club or some similar
>orgainization.

It's just that, a committee to decide who what when and where: I was just a very small part of the concom for Orycon, but I do have experience of this sort in other areas, so I hereby volunteer myself

>> What exactly is a filk convention?
>A SF&F convention where basically all programming is
>geared to music. Where the GOH is a musician.

And not necissarily just filk, we could cover scifi movie/tv soundtracks, and other stuff like that, if we could find a way to fit it all in.

>> How feasible would this proposed convention be?
>I don't know.
I think the interest is there, wed have to work out details as to budget and such.
>
>My personal guess about this is: Without the help,
>monetary, reputation, and experience, of an organization
>like PORSFIS (who puts on OryCon, and the occasional other
>Con), not feasible. The initial outlays would be too much.
>We don't have a concentrated work crew....
Ummm, I thought it was OSFCI that put on Orycon. Anyway if one of them was willing to sponser the idea, I think we could pull it off. At least in Portland. I don't know if there's a similar group in Seattle.

>> Would enough northwest people be interested in attending
>> to make it work?
>
>My guess from what I've seen is that we'd be looking to get
>an attendance of about 100 to 125, I think that's possible.
>However, we're probably also looking at minimum memberships
>in the 30 or 35 dollar range.
Which isn't *too* bad, there could be a time scale, where the closer it gets to the con, the more you pay.

 A filk con in the PNW would
>draw people from BC, WA, OR, North CA, Idaho and possibly
>Montana. If we can be sure to have Heather Alexander there
>(a must for such a con) that would draw a minimum of 40
>people.
At the very, very least, I'd estimate more, she is kinda the "hometown favorite" There's Cecilia too.   

I think the first step would be to find a group of people willing to put their heads together and work up a proposal, and see what the response is.

Charlene B Received on 11/22/96