Gnomeward Bound

[kevin_standlee]

There's a Westercon 60 committee meeting today in San Mateo at the convention hotel. I have a job on the committee about which I'll talk more later, so I need to attend. I've missed most of the meetings, thanks to my rather sloppily scheduled trips to Oregon for the same weekends as the committee meetings. (Not deliberately; I just neglected to pencil in the Westercon meetings before making my travel plans.)

Parking at the hotel is not free (although it will be during the convention), so I need to leave a little early so I can park a few blocks away and park. Walking is good, anyway. It's a beautiful clear day, even though it is (by Bay Area standards) frightfully cold.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Does someone on the committee have the job of communicating with the members and the outside world? Does someone have the job of putting anything on the web site? Last time I checked even the membership rates were way out of date. I'm a member, or at least I wrote a check which was cashed, and have not to date received any publications of any kind from Westercon, and indeed only found out that the date was changed by happenstance.

A friend of mine from LA recently expressed interest in coming up for Westercon, and I had to warn that, due to this utter lack of anything, I was not at all sure if there is a Westercon.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

And now I've gotten a query from another out-of-town friend of mine, saying, "What's happened to Westercon? They cashed my check, but never sent anything and never responded to my e-mail."

Now that I've read your post, I was able to say, "There's a committee and they're having meetings, I know that, but as far as I can tell, come the day there may well be a bunch of fans wandering the halls with nothing else going on."

Certainly your assurance that you'd inform the committee that they were out of touch did not reassure me: either they already know this, and therefore don't need you to tell them, or they don't, in which case they are so far gone that nothing can help. And the lack of interest from dsmoen worries me even more.

Once ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down?
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