SMOFcon 16 – – 1998
SMOFcon 16
SMOFcon 16 was held at the Radisson Inn North, 8110 North Academy Boulevard, Colorado Springs, Colorado on December 4th, 5th and 6th, 1998. Chairman was Kent Bloom. There were 83 members.
The program was a series of open discussions with a theme of "Recording Acquired Wisdom". They plan to produce chapters for a handbook about SF convention management from the discussions.
The con suite as usual was a main attraction for SMOFcon. Fen were constantly in there openly discussing how to take over all the conventions in the world and remake them into their own interests. Seriously, SMOFcon con suites are the place for real hands-on advice for individual convention problems. It doesn't hurt that they are usually stocked with lots of good supplies. Jack Henegan continued this tradition.
The program included
Friday night:
- "A Study in Parliamentary Procedure Mixer Game"
Saturday:
- Managing Volunteers - John Lorentz, moderator
- Facilities Management Pre-Con - Bobbi Armbruster, moderator
- Dealing with the Unpleasant; defining, encouraging, and enforcing acceptable behavior on the Con-com - Peggy Rae Pavlat, moderator
- Reveune Planning and Budgeting, Tracking Attendance, Projecting Revenue,
- Projecting Expenses - Mark Olson, moderator
- Facilities Management At-Con - Ben Yalow, moderator
- Masquerade Problems and Priorities - Kent Bloom, moderator
- Interacting with Authors - Cindy Zender, moderator
- Communications for Distributed Committees - Janice Gelb, moderator
Sunday:
- The Art and Philosophy of Convention Programming - Priscilla Olson, moderator
- Convention Space Planning Simulation - Kent Bloom, moderator
- Worldcon Runners Guide Review - Saul Jaffe, moderator
- And an ad hoc program on selecting Division Heads for large conventions was led by Mark Olson and Tom Whitmore.
-- Joe Siclari
