minutes:2011-02-20-concommeeting
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Penguicon 2011 Concom Meeting
February 20, 2011
Meeting officially started at 12:32pm
Attendance
ConCom
- Limey Zrnich - ConChair
- Jer Lance - Facilities
- Amanda Long-Adams - Treasurer
- Christina Bender - Operations
- Bill Korsak - Programming
Absent
- Kylia Zrnich - Hospitality
- Aaron Thul - Registration
Staff
- Trevor Jagoda (Absent from Hotel Liaison duties mostly)
- Ossy Krieger (Network)
- Matt Arnold (Pubs & Signage)
- Jamie Liss (Auction)
- Dan Eckerd (Logistics)
- Ryan Carey (Video Game Track)
- Anna Held-Petrak (Volunteers)
- Dave Adams (Webcomics & Artist's Alley)
- Shawn McGraw (Gaming)
- Jenn Toby (Gaming)
- John Davis (Gaming)
- Mark Szlaga (Hospitality)
- Jennifer Szlaga (Hospitality)
- Shar Nims (Hospitality)
- Chris Catlett (Computer Lounge)
- Angie Fox (Dealer's Room)
- James Hice (Communications & Community & Looking Damned Pretty)
- Virtual Misha (Ribbons)
Others in Attendance
- Gib (MDLug)
Individual Reporting
James (Community)
- Needs SMOS hosts, please contact him at community@
Gibs
- Perhaps internally network-cast presentations?
- Working with Ossy on that
Angie (Dealer's)
- Dealer's room is sold out plus waiting list
- i3 does not need a table
- When is room available?
Chris (Computer Lounge)
- Going to need overnight staff
- Will publish to list to find people
Shar (Hospitality)
- No chance of Concierge Lounge on Thursday night
Jenn (Gaming)
- Working on schedule
- If you are interested in running a game, contact gaming@
- Looking for staff and volunteers for overnights
Anna (Volunteers)
- If you need volunteers, you can just add them to the wiki (Volunteers page… perhaps volunteers) or email Anna volunteers@
- If you think you asked for it, and it's not on the wiki, you didn't.
- Can we ensure that wuffie is spendable at the hotel?
- Beer trolls must be staff and must be found that way, not through volunteers.
Ryan (Video Gaming Track)
- Just sent schedule to Bill
- If you know someone who wants to do a video game panel or if you'd like to be on some, email videogaming@
Dave the Canadian (Webcomics)
- Artist's Alley full…
- Where is it going to be? What is it? Why is it? Ahhhhhh!
- Webcomics programming is in and submitted to Bill
Dan (Logistics)
- Storage cube is re-inventoried
- Should have the inventory on wiki by next weekend
- Stupid monitors should go away
- Dan is going to coordinate with James and/or Gibs to manage away all of our useless stuff
- Truck is going to cost about $400
Jamie (Auction)
- Currently taking donations for the convention
- Will email webmaster@ to get access to email account
- Wiki has been set up
Amanda (Treasurer & Room Parties)
- Needs to get Limey a credit card
- Nothing new to add, but if you spend money, you need to submit an expense report form asap
- Email treasurer@ if you need a form or if you need to know about your budget
- Room parties
- Cutoff for suites: end of February so they can be juried
- Need to have a rules form put together
Matt (Pubs & Signage)
- Souvenir book deadline: March 4th
- Schedule book deadline: March 25th
- Proofing drafts will be out before 1 April, and need to be back by the 5th
- Printer cannot take anything after early of April.
- Souvenir book…if you don't want to change your text, please respond and approve it
- If you want to change it, change it and respond
Ossy (Network)
- No planned changes from last year
- Please email network@ if you have questions
- Need to work with hotel to get the lobby televisions set up
Jer (Hotel)
- New contact (dunno who yet) on the hotel side
- Hotel is nearly full, get your ducks in a row or get left out
- If you have something to ask the hotel, talk to me
- This includes on the weekend itself ($1,330 wasted last year)
- Room layouts due March 4th
- No special snowflakes, all requests will be emailed per the way things have been handled for 4 years
- Deadline page on the wiki?
Christine (Ops)
- Needs Ops staffers, contact ops@ to work
Bill K (Programming)
- Tracks
- Costuming, Food, Mayhem, and Life are in the Life Track now
- Anime Track is going to die…unless there is some new person to run it
- DIY - Brad is still running it, despite not being able to attend
- Needs to find a liaison for Mitch/Jimmie
- Eco - Still going, need to discuss location
- Gaming - On target, has programming
- After-Dark - Has programming
- Lit - Lots of programming plus writing seminar
- Music - Has overtaken the con
- Podcasting - also huge programming
- Science - Is frickin' massive
- Tech - Fleshing out nicely
- Video Gaming - Fleshlight
- Webcomic - David has passed on panels
- Mayhem - Aegis is concerned…this has been placed under Life
- Penguicon - Board meeting, intro to the con…Matt will contact
Virtual Misha (Ribbons)
- Need ribbon orders
- Please help spread the word
- Needs official list of ribbons from Limey
- Also needs list from Limey from GoHs
- Ribbon ordering deadline is March 11th
Next Meetings
- March 20th at 1pm ConCom…Troy Marriott
SMOS Dinners
- None scheduled, otherwise James will be organizing one soon.
- If you want to throw a SMOS dinner or party, please contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]
Meeting proper adjourned at 2:40pm by Jer.
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