[Board] Re: Penguicon Programming

[Matt Arnold]

Gerald,

Many of the Track Heads are doing fine, such as Chuck with the Food
Track. A few are absolutely not. Here at the end of the year I have my
crossover track set in wet plaster right on schedule. I might be the
only Track head who has used his Nifty allotment. The Author Nifties
sort of came together by themselves.

Aaron unofficially took over Tech programming from Tim, who has done
nothing but give empty promises when I check with him every week.
Aaron got us our Tech Nifties in addition to our GoHs. He is
scheduling a Tech Track meeting.

I have finally kicked Sean Klein's butt enough that he has actually
sent a grand total of two emails about gaming. He admitted he took on
the job as an exercise and challenge in which to overcome his
reluctance to initiate communication with other humans. This year's
gaming track will happen, but will cease to be a jewel in Penguicon's
crown.

Penguicon needs for there to be more programming than 90% Matt
Arnold's ideas. For this to happen, there must be a driving force who
doesn't let the team forget. A person who schedules meetings about it.
Someone who keeps checking the whole events page and seeing if there
are huge gaps where we have no work done. Who points out when two
panels are pretty much the same topic. Someone who checks if the Tech
Track heads are doing anything whatsoever. Most importantly, someone
who you can trust and not have to check on to make sure she doesn't
waste eight irreplaceable months.

The person riding herd on all of the Track Heads has been me, except
without any authority because, nominally, I'm not in charge of
programming. Let's face it, for eight months I have been in every way
the acting head of programming this year. It's superfluous for Sarah
to just put together a grid and get blurbs. She isn't even aware that
I've already got that covered in the online system. Give me the
programming position in addition to program book. I want the whole
information chain.

-Matt


On Dec 11, 2007 9:57 PM, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sarah,
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you've been experiencing what you've been
> experiencing. How to respond is Gerald's decision. I'm CC'ing him.
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 5:50 PM, LadySarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> > Hi.  I'm sorry I didn't answer this sooner but I wanted to be sure I could
> > give you an honest answer about a couple things and I didn't have that until
> > just now.  The long answer is all over my lj, the short answer is that I had
> > several things from my past come out of the closet and bite me in the ass
> > within the past three months and I'm just now getting my mental and
> > emotional feet back under me.  This is why no one's heard anything from me
> > outside of my lj in so long.
> >
> > The good news is that unless there's something else that I can not even
> > imagine right now I'm through the worst of it.  (if I pull a memory of child
> > sexual abuse all bets are off)  I had been planning on throwing myself into
> > plopping things onto a grid between here and Sunday and checking out
> > everything I can get my hands on.
> >
> > If you'd rather not take the chance of something else coming up and biting
> > me into wobbly jello I would understand and be just fine with it.  I have
> > most of the music schedule planned out in my head, if not in the database
> > yet, and that I will certainly be able to handle.  I just ask that if this
> > is what you'd prefer that you let me know so I don't dump a whole bunch of
> > time into it.
> >
> > If you do wish me to continue attempting to wrangle programming into
> > submission I need to know what else besides setting up the grid and making
> > sure everything has blurbs for the program book I need to do.  I am capable
> > of doing anything and everything, I am not always intuitive enough to guess
> > that I'm not doing something that needs to be done - even if it's staring me
> > straight in the face.
> >
> > Let me know and I'll go from there.
> > Sarah
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2007 4:59 PM, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sarah,
> > >
> > > How has the first six months been? As a member of your programming
> > > team, I haven't heard anything from you. Are you still part of this?
> > >
> > > -Matt
> > >
> >
>