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I have retreated to home to grow back a little after a fabulous convention. (For folks reading this who are still there, it's likely I'll be out at some point on Monday for final hotel-chair-like things, but I am not currently sure if it'll be tomorrow or when. Plans in flux, as one might say).
For those who don't remember my previous posts, 4th Street is a recently revived convention, and this year, I was hotel chair (in large part to support![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem but also because hotel negotiations are the one piece of the 'putting on events' set of skills I haven't yet done besides vendors - and I get the theory of vendor stuff.)
4th Street is unusual because it's a single track of programming, and of necessity also has some limitations on con size. (This year, I believe the final number was around 148 memberships sold, and something like 130 warm bodies on site - we had a membership cap at 250).
There are many fantastic things about this - among them that you can wander off to lunch or dinner with a group of random people you barely know, and have tons to talk to them about, because you've been in all the same panels and conversations all day. (And can say "I really liked what you said about X..." or "You do Y? Can I pick your brain about it?" or all sorts of other cool things.) It also turns out to be pretty much my optimum con size: enough people to have lots of variety and possibility, but few enough that it's not ovewhelming.
The following is a con report: written each evening before I went to bed and things fell out of my brain. There will be more on some specific pieces later, I suspect.
( con report within )
For those who don't remember my previous posts, 4th Street is a recently revived convention, and this year, I was hotel chair (in large part to support
elisem but also because hotel negotiations are the one piece of the 'putting on events' set of skills I haven't yet done besides vendors - and I get the theory of vendor stuff.) 4th Street is unusual because it's a single track of programming, and of necessity also has some limitations on con size. (This year, I believe the final number was around 148 memberships sold, and something like 130 warm bodies on site - we had a membership cap at 250).
There are many fantastic things about this - among them that you can wander off to lunch or dinner with a group of random people you barely know, and have tons to talk to them about, because you've been in all the same panels and conversations all day. (And can say "I really liked what you said about X..." or "You do Y? Can I pick your brain about it?" or all sorts of other cool things.) It also turns out to be pretty much my optimum con size: enough people to have lots of variety and possibility, but few enough that it's not ovewhelming.
The following is a con report: written each evening before I went to bed and things fell out of my brain. There will be more on some specific pieces later, I suspect.
( con report within )
