[Penguicon-Concom] Good bye

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 22 July 2006 3:14 pm, Ron Wilson wrote:
> For those who do not yet know, John Guest, the conchair, replaced us.

First I've heard of it.  I'm a little confused what you mean, though.

> There was no warning let alone asking us if we want to change jobs or
> just take a year off.

Because changing con chair every year is no excuse for changing the people 
under the con chair every year?

Penguicon 4 is over.  He can't have replaced you as P4 concom because there is 
no more P4 concom, the positions expired.  You're announcing publicly that 
you weren't appointed to a P5 concom position you expected to get.  You also 
didn't win an Oscar this year.

The new con chair assembles a new concom to help them run the convention.  
Generally drawing from the same pool of people, but it's a good idea to put 
them in different jobs for the same reason we switch the con chair each year.

Year 3, the con chair didn't ask me to do _anything_.  I wasn't in his pool of 
people.  And that was his perogative.

> He only offered us staff positions, so he has 
> completely removed us from the committee.

So you want power, not the opportunity to do work?

I brought the liquid nitrogen this year on my own, paid for out of my own 
pocket, and didn't even get reimbursed.  I also bought the first round of ice 
cream ingredients (although the con was nice enough to buy refills).  In a 
lot of ways, that was totally unauthorized LN2 ice cream.  (I certainly 
didn't ask or receive anybody's permission to throw some in the pool.)

I still don't think I really understand the difference between concom and 
staff.  A few top level people (con chair, treasurer) have to handle money 
and contracts.  Below that, people are doing specific things (panels, con 
suite, masquerade, advertising, travel...)  Do I have to get authorization to 
promote Penguicon at ConFusion?  If I manage to throw together a room party, 
will it be an _unauthorized_ room party?

I did just ask for flyers, because I haven't got any and suck at graphic 
design.  But if I get a PDF I can probably print some.  (Single sided, 
anyway.)

Rob
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