Friday
16:00 - 17:00 | History of York. |
A talk by a local historian. |
20:00 - 21:00 |
The year in review. |
Todd Dashoff (M), Peter Jarvis , Deb Geisler,Tom Whitmore,Tim Illingworth |
21:00 - 21:30 | What kind of Conrunner are
You ? Come to Margaret's item and be told. (Hint, you should be able to work out what kind of conrunner Margaret is.) |
Margaret Austin |
21:30 - 22:30 |
Welcome to the Con, Mixer Event and Competition. |
All welcome. |
Saturday
10:00 - 11:00 (R) |
What is always the same about cons ? Why don't we handle these things
more efficiently? Many of the things which appear difficult to the new conrunner are problems which have been solved over and over again. Often the solutions are the same but just as often immense amounts of committee time and argument are devoted to discovering that. Introduction by Ian Sorensen followed by discussion. |
Ian Sorensen (Introduction), Martin Hoare, Tony Parker, Craige Howlett |
10:00 - 11:00 (V) |
Who do we want to attract to cons and how? (note
day and time change) |
Laurie Mann(M), Claire Brialey, Chris O'Shea, Kathryn Daugherty |
11:00 - 12:00 (R) |
Publications, the Cinderella of Conventions |
Steve Davies(M) Mark Plummer, Deb Geisler, Scott Dennis |
11:00 - 12:00 (V) |
I wish I hadn't done that ! |
Tom Whitmore(US), Martin Hoare(UK) |
13:00 - 14:00 (R) |
Psychology and group management. |
Michael Rennie |
13:00 - 14:00 (V) |
"Amateurs talk of Tactics, Professionals talk of Logistics" |
Vincent Docherty (Introduction), Elaine Brennan, Andrew Adams, Kent Bloom |
15:00 - 16:00 (R) |
Combining panelists to make the ideal item. |
Priscilla Olson(M), Colin Harris, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Bridget Bradshaw |
15:00 - 16:00 (V) |
Fringe fandoms & cons. What works and what doesn't? |
Mary Kay Kare(M), Sue Mason, Mike Pins , Giulia de Cesare |
16:00 - 17:00 (R) |
Building the Convention Committee Dream Team |
Tom Whitmore(M), Michael Rennie, Kent Bloom, Martin Hoare |
16:00 - 17:00 (V) |
US v UK practice. |
Vince Docherty, Mark Olson (Planning and Legal), Margaret Austin, Marcia Illingworth (Personalities and Practices), David Cochrane, Jim Mann (At Con) |
21:00 - 23:00 |
Bidders Inquisition. |
Presentations for Smofcon, Torcon, Noreascon, UK in 2005, Los Angeles in 2006, Kansas City in 2006, Nippon 2007 |
Sunday
10:00 - 11:00 (R) | Management styles
(note day and time change) Fans who work in different management cultures discuss how these can be applied to conrunning. The panel includes fans working in: commercial project management, the British Civil Service, Publishing and the Military. |
Mark Olson(M), Claire Brialey, Colin Harris, Simon Bradshaw |
10:00 - 11:00 (V) |
Dealing with difficult programme participants, and other amusements |
Janice Gelb (M), Priscilla Olson, Teresa, Nielsen Hayden, Jim Mann |
11:00 - 12:00 (R) |
The Conrunner's Apprentice. |
Michael Siladi(M), Pat McMurray, Jenny Quin, Erik Olson |
11:00 - 12:00 (V) |
How does your local fan group interact with your local convention? |
Ian Sorensen(M), Deb Geisler, Joyce Scrivner, Joni Dashoff |
13:00 - 14:00 (R) |
Launch Thunderbird 2. |
Vincent Docherty, Tom Whitmore, Jim Mann, Judy Bemis |
13:00 - 14:00 (V) |
Spreading the knowledge |
Ian Sorensen(M), Bjorn Tore Sund, Michael Siladi, Ben Yalow |
14:00 - 15:00 (R) |
Design the perfect convention venue. |
Claire Brialey, Mark Olson, David Cochrane, Marc Gordon |
14:00 - 15:00 (V) |
What can be different about cons ? |
Kim Campbell(M), Bridget Bradshaw, Mark Plummer, Deb Geisler |
15:00 - 16:00 (R) |
Do we need an Information Technology policy for fandom?
(note day and time change) |
Martin Easterbrook , Mary Kay Kare, Elaine Brennan, Andrew Adams, Simon Bradshaw |
15:00 - 16:00 (V) |
TBA |
16:00 - 17:00 |
Convention Review. |
All |
Workshops
Workshop |
UK budgeting workshop |
Dave Cooper |
Workshop |
Alternate Worldcons (note day and time change) |
Groups |
Workshop |
UK Data Protection Workshop |
Andrew Adams |
Workshop |
Psychology Workshop |
Michael Rennie |