You mean, were invitations to the Old Pharts Party distributed? Yes, but I discovered (with difficulty) that if you were a Program Participant (and therefore registered in the Green Room), you wouldn't get your invitation.
It appears that if you registered at main registration, the computer would stop the person registering you and tell them to give you an invitation. The program participants were pulled out and moved to Green Room/Program Ops, and didn't have the same workflow. Therefore, those of us -- me, and presumably you, Mike -- who were program participants didn't get invitations. I figured there would be a party, and asked other former chairs until one of them produced invitations that he said came with his membership package. I then went back to Program Ops, who said they'd never had them, and traced it back to Main Registration, where they did things with the computer and said, "Oh, we owe you invitations."
I wondered where you were! The Party was held in the Presidential Suite, with the nice view of the fireworks, which meant we had to hurry with Former Chairs Photo. Unlike last year, where Interaction scheduled a separate time and photo-friendly location for the photo session, we once again showed why trying to take that photo in a hotel room, even a large suite like that, is not a good idea.
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Re: Former Worldcon chair party
Date: 2006-08-29 06:26 am (UTC)It appears that if you registered at main registration, the computer would stop the person registering you and tell them to give you an invitation. The program participants were pulled out and moved to Green Room/Program Ops, and didn't have the same workflow. Therefore, those of us -- me, and presumably you, Mike -- who were program participants didn't get invitations. I figured there would be a party, and asked other former chairs until one of them produced invitations that he said came with his membership package. I then went back to Program Ops, who said they'd never had them, and traced it back to Main Registration, where they did things with the computer and said, "Oh, we owe you invitations."
I wondered where you were! The Party was held in the Presidential Suite, with the nice view of the fireworks, which meant we had to hurry with Former Chairs Photo. Unlike last year, where Interaction scheduled a separate time and photo-friendly location for the photo session, we once again showed why trying to take that photo in a hotel room, even a large suite like that, is not a good idea.