Another year, and another ARISIA.....
Jan. 25th, 2005 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lensmanI'm exhausted....
I had my second go round as Operations Division Head, and had just too much life interfere this year to compleatly consider that I did a GOOD job at it (And that seems to have been a theme that ran through-out for a lot of people in the Convention Commitee this year as well...)
I think I over all made less mistakes than last year, but I think the dept ran more on auto-pilot last year than this... Although I didn't get everything I wanted to done correctly (mostly in not gettning enough help, You know I not really sure if there ever could be ENOUGH HELP), but this time around I knew enough that at least hidding the bodies so that the attendees wouldn't notice seemed easier... :-) That and the amazing help that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
c1 provided by taking the horrid job of Logistics ("There and back again, a logistics nightmare") after the person who he also originaly helped recruit had an attack of life... and then helping to arrange for someone to take the at con sign shop on at the last minute, when I dropped the ball on finding someone for it....
This year's Arisia also had the distinction of having the most version's depending on how you look at it...
A '04.5 (Mini-con held at the last WorldCon here in Boston)
A '05 (What we had actully scheduled)
A '05.1 (Arisia the Extended Edition....)
Some things went off without a hitch... Some did not...
dancer and tk7602 arranged to get about 15 members of the 501st New England Garrison to come and run a charity raffle.... That seemed to go off nicely. They raised nearly $500.00, and there were a lot of people who seemed to like getting their pictures taken with the guys in plastic suits... Now I need to finish mine....
I missed out on a lot of things at con... I just didn't seem to have the time/energy for....
I hope everyone had fun.....
I had my second go round as Operations Division Head, and had just too much life interfere this year to compleatly consider that I did a GOOD job at it (And that seems to have been a theme that ran through-out for a lot of people in the Convention Commitee this year as well...)
I think I over all made less mistakes than last year, but I think the dept ran more on auto-pilot last year than this... Although I didn't get everything I wanted to done correctly (mostly in not gettning enough help, You know I not really sure if there ever could be ENOUGH HELP), but this time around I knew enough that at least hidding the bodies so that the attendees wouldn't notice seemed easier... :-) That and the amazing help that
c1 provided by taking the horrid job of Logistics ("There and back again, a logistics nightmare") after the person who he also originaly helped recruit had an attack of life... and then helping to arrange for someone to take the at con sign shop on at the last minute, when I dropped the ball on finding someone for it....This year's Arisia also had the distinction of having the most version's depending on how you look at it...
A '04.5 (Mini-con held at the last WorldCon here in Boston)
A '05 (What we had actully scheduled)
A '05.1 (Arisia the Extended Edition....)
Some things went off without a hitch... Some did not...
- I think the two worst examples were:
- Our Artist Guest of Honor, made the mistake of shipping a 3D-piece that through Fed-Ex, and it arrived smashed...
- Now I can't entirely blame Fed-Ex, for this because:
- They ship everything by plane, whcih means it gets scanned by x-ray
- The piece (being a memorial to Vietnam Vets) had a dummy grenade, as part of the peice....
- Upon seeing what appears to be a grenade come through their scanner for shipment on a plane, I can hardly blame Fed-Ex for dealing with the package as a threat....
- Opppss
- Now I can't entirely blame Fed-Ex, for this because:
- A parent let their young kid (<=13) come to the convention with a couple of his young friends (also<=13), un-supervised...
- His friends lost track of him for over 5 hours before reporting him to us as missing...
- This of course happend right in the middle of the Guest of Honor Dinner...
- He was found okay after about an hour of searching by the Arisia Operations and Secuirty Staff...
dancer and tk7602 arranged to get about 15 members of the 501st New England Garrison to come and run a charity raffle.... That seemed to go off nicely. They raised nearly $500.00, and there were a lot of people who seemed to like getting their pictures taken with the guys in plastic suits... Now I need to finish mine....I missed out on a lot of things at con... I just didn't seem to have the time/energy for....
I hope everyone had fun.....
