[Penguicon-Concom] Program book comments.

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 8:35 pm, john guest wrote:
> So, does anyone have ideas on how to create sufficient critical mass
> to get people fired up about doing panels at Penguicon in, say,
> January?   Then we would have weeks, lo unto months to do the fine
> tune on the program book.

Easy, start allocating final panel slots with rooms and times in January, and 
post the schedule on the web.  (And not a google spreadsheet that nobody can 
actually read, but something real and final looking.)

Until you post a schedule people can actually plan their attendance based on, 
it's not real, and if there are no consequences of missing the February 
deadline ("sorry, we're out of rooms to put that panel in") nobody will take 
it seriously.  So make the room slots a scarce resource early (which they 
eventually will be), and make it clear that changes after you run out of room 
slots will only be made to replace panelists who can't do their presentation.

Rob
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