Re: A few more comments on the Filkcon idea

reply>Karen Rall wrote:
>>
>> (1) "A preliminary concom meeting" = Clarrise suggested her
>> place in Jan, but that doesn't appear to be workable for most
>> of us. I think Anne's idea of doing it at Rustycon (and
>> maybe subsequently at Norwes or Wester if there's the interest)
>> might be a better idea: a time & place at least some of us
>> will already be, without having to make any extra effort at
>> this early stage.
>
>Who is "most of us"? For the more southerly types the date/times you
>suggest do require "extra effort". They're all Seattle area. Yes,
>my lady and I are planning on doing Wester, but certainly not Rusty,
>and most likely not NorWes. We, at least, would be willing to make
>the extra effort to make a Portland meet, but Seattle is a real
>problem.
> This, I think, is going to be an issue. We need the core
>group to be fairly co-located. This implies either a Portland
>based effort, or a Seattle based effort. Without that core we're
>whistling in the wind. So, is there a core in either location? If
>there's the critical core in Seattle... go for it. Otherwise, is
>there a Portland core? If so, P'land makes more sense as a meeting
>point.
> I will support whichever can get the core together.... I
>want a NW Filk Con, wherever it may be.
>
> This is, of course, only my opinion...
>
>Douglas
>douglas at camax.com
>

Hrmmmm. At the risk of sounding us-against-them, I would say that Portland has a bigger *established* filk core, with the Friends of Filk, and Firebird and such located here. That and Seattle has alot more cons happening, at least this year, the odds are good that people would be suffering from con burnout, and wouldn't want to come to a new con.  I can't make it to any of the Seattle cons, and I can name at least 4 other people interested in helping with a filk con who couldn't make it either. (They don't have computer access, or I'd have them speak for themselves) I think there is a larger concentration of Seattle people *here* because the list is based in Seattle, so it occasionaly feels like those of us to the south are outnumbered.
Maybe this could be one of those cons that alternates between Portland and Seattle, although then you come up against the different locations wanting to do things their way, and it ends up being two totaly different cons.

Charlene B.
(who will now go hide behind the couch and wait for the fur to fly...) Received on 01/02/97