[Deptheads] Need more room for Larps

[DB]

On 12/10/07 5:43 PM, "Janice Sellers" <janicemsj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying my damnedest to bring things into the computer room, and it
> would probably help tremendously if people would actually *help*
> instead of just bitching about why we have any space designated for it
> at all. 

I'm sorry but I don't have huge amounts of time.  I'm busy wrangling and
programming 100 rpg events.  If I can help you, let me know.

>So far there is a tentative plan to put the online
> play-by-email game people in there, and a possibility of some
> corporate support.

 No one at the staff meeting on Sunday knew anything about the computer
room. No one even knew who was in charge of it. There was no talk of any
plan.

>The biggest reason that we are trying to keep a
> space designated for a comptuer room is because once it's gone, it's
> gone.  Yes, I know some of you (whom I will not name, but it's
> pointedly obvious who you are) would be thrilled by that, but some of
> us, including several of the convention owners, would not.

I would love to see a thriving computer space.  I've not seen that for years
at Strategicon.

>I try to
> support other departments as much as possible; is it too much to ask
> that other departments support what I am doing?

Tell us what we can do.  Honest.  I just have no idea where and how to get
equipment in there or how to advertise this to folks.
 
> And yes, that's quite a bit of a rant, and I really don't give a damn.
>  Live with it.

Rants are okay on e-mail.  Face to face would be another matter.

Here's my three cents regarding a plan:

We need to FOCUS on an event just like we do the rest of the con.  Patrick
doesn't just have a bunch of games that he has on a shelf and hopes people
play them.  I don't have a box of rpgs and wait for people to show up and
play something.  PROGRAM the computer room.  Specifically say stuff like:
Starcraft tournament starting at 3pm.  12 person Halo II starting at noon.
Etc.  But we need to PROGRAM the events.  Let's just focus on a few core
events and not worry about the "open computer gaming" environment.  It's the
wrong approach and impossible to sell to folks because there's no one
interested in maybe-gaming.  We need to give people something definitive to
sign-up for.

 - Den