[Penguicon-Concom] Hotel Update

[john guest]

Gerald is investigating alternative dates.  But this process includes
the following steps:

a) ensuring that alternative dates are available at the hotel.
b) ensuring that our GoHs that have already been invited are able to attend.
c) deciding on a new date if do-able
d) changing the date and broadcasting that
e) informing folks who have already pre-reg'd that the date has
changed, and potentially refunding anyone who can't now attend.

So, yeah while this needs to happen soon, it ain't gonna be easy
should we change dates.

--John

On 6/6/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ron,
>
> We aren't trying to compete with GAMA for attendees. We're competing
> with them for pretty much our entire gaming _track_. Not just our
> gaming GoH, but pretty much all our gaming Nifties will skip Penguicon
> in 2008 as they did in 2007 (with the blessed exception of Steve
> Jackson, who isn't coming in 2008, so far as I know). The gaming track
> is vastly more than just the Gaming GoH. The Neiblings, the Nifties,
> and a dozen other celebs turned us down who would otherwise be regular
> Nifties and a signifigant draw.
>
> In mid-2006 I had to console Clark Rodeffer for doing that to our
> gamers. I vowed to him at that time, that there is no way in holy heck
> we'll do that to our gaming track a second year in a row. So, when I
> found out we had scheduled against GAMA again, I raised the alarm.
> This isn't all of a sudden. We've been trying to work it out for weeks
> now.
>
> A whole lot more than two cents,
> Matt
>
>
> On 6/5/07, Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2) Why are we looking to change the date all of a sudden? I heard mention of
> > GAMA being the reason once and personally I don't think that is a good
> > enough reason to change our date. We have never had a problem getting guests
> > from that realm in the past being on the same weekend as GAMA and I don't
> > see why it would be that much of a problem now. If a guest chooses to go to
> > GAMA over coming to PCon then that is there choice and we go with a
> > different guest. Changing our date just to work around a Gaming Trade Show
> > in Las Vegas looks to be a bad move at this point. We have never changed our
> > date to work around the many Linux/OSS Conventions and Conferences that are
> > the same week as us (there are several and just about all of them are way
> > bigger than GAMA) so I see no need to change the date just to work around a
> > Gaming Trade Show.
> >
> > just my $0.02.
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