[Penguicon-Concom] Souvenir book, Schedule book, split deadlines

[Matt Arnold]

That is great. I assume the quick start guide would be the non-schedule book?
-Matt

On Jan 25, 2008 6:41 PM, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rachel had a suggestion, which I would like to put forward.
>
> We need to change the name of this.   To us, "souvenir book" screams 'Don't
> bother reading this until you get home!!!'
>
> Our initial suggestion was to name them 'Penguicon Users Guide' and
> 'Penguicon Quick Start Guide'.   It's not completely transparent, but the
> idea is the users guide will be big and detailed, and the Quick Start guide
> will provide the bare minimum you need to get solid use of your penguicon
> product.
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 12:06 PM, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear everybody,
> >
> > I was reminded by Molly's questions about deadlines. This year Dan
> > DeSloover and I are going to split the program book into two books.
> >
> > The schedule book will have its own separate due dates for the
> > programming team to provide content. If you're not providing or
> > organizing scheduled events, you don't have to worry about it. This
> > will contain the full schedule, so basically all the stuff that delays
> > the program book with late-breaking changes every year. Lady Sarah
> > will provide a deadline for getting your schedule content to her. This
> > book will contain a map, and will be 8.5"x11" letter size, folded
> > vertically to 11"x4.25", so it's very narrow and fits in a pocket. But
> > unlike the folded pocket program, it contains all details and is a
> > staple-bound book.
> >
> > The other book will be the souvenir book. This will contain
> > "everything else". All advertisements, conchair report, dealer room
> > info, consuite, ops, volunteers, rules, guest bios, even articles if
> > you want. This will be printed in the usual shape and format of
> > 8.5"x14" legal size paper, folded horizontally to 7"x8.5" pages. We
> > would like you to at least get your space requirements to us by the
> > end of January, which is one week from now. Most of you were told this
> > at the concom meeting, but for the others, I'm sorry for the late
> > notice. If you can't write your content yet, leave underscores in it
> > for the missing information, or else just estimate the number of words
> > you'll have.
> >
> > The deadline for the _final_ souvenir book content will be Friday,
> > February 15. It's negotiable now, but will be less and less negotiable
> > as time goes on. We just need to hear from you so we can work out the
> > nature of what you'll need your department to include. Dan and I are
> > really flexible about this and are happy to make it easier for you,
> > but nobody is allowed to ignore us and suddenly ask for an extension
> > when the deadline has already passed. That would be just uncool, OK?
> >
> > -Matt
> >
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