[Deptheads] John Paiva's after action report

[Patrick Havert]

Folks,

If we split the ballroom East-West, Boardgames loses space.  Last con we had 
to use the Foyer, Ballroom, Minis, Collectables, La Jolla, San Jose, demo 
tables, and the Flea Market tables on Saturday and Sunday(and if Minis and 
Collectables had not given us space we would never have fit), so we can't 
afford to lose ANY space at the moment.  I am actually hoping we put Minis 
in La Jolla and the Penthouse, This would move Minis towards the front of 
the con, right next to registration, and Boardgames/Open Gaming gets the 
whole Ballroom, Foyer and San Jose.  San Jose can be used on Friday night 
and Mondays to promote LARPS or something special.  Boardgames would use it 
for Special or Big events during the day, and screaming games/Werewolf at 
night.

I'd also like to take the demo tables in front of the Dealer room, to put 
the Payout crew there, so they have a bit more room to spread out.

John you can put your special games in the dealer room in the area not used, 
and draw people into the dealers room, this also lets you close down at 7pm 
each night, so you can run from 10-7.

The only problem I see with changing the Flea market hours is that the 
Dealers would buy stuff and then sell it in the dealers room.  The one 
dealer who went to the auction and outbid the little kids and most of the 
other people has pissed off a lot of people so that they stopped bidding at 
the event, and say they won't come back if they see him again.  The Flea 
Market and the Auction I thought were for the gamers, perchance I am 
mistaken.

As for Larry, if we start our own library, do we want/need him to continue 
to come?  Besides if we need to staff the Library, then it seems we really 
need to look at Larry's as a possible elimination, as I am tired of him 
asking Boardgames HQ to help look after it.  We have enough to do without 
his deal, and as you mentioned it looks bad when it is not staffed.  Just as 
a side note, he said he is coming every time from now on, so who set this 
deal up with him?  and what was the actual deal?

The Staff Lounge is a nice idea, but some departments are farther away, and 
it is not practical to expect the con to provide space/food for us when 
space is still at a premium.  I do really appreciate the doughnuts we get 
from Janice, and I hope those continue(shameless plug).  I actually buy 
sodas and snacks for the boardgame GM's, and have them at the HQ.  To be 
honest, we have already outgrown this location for Orc Con at least, so 
we'll have to see what happens at Gamex/Gateway, and if the hotel can get 
more Cabanas and other space available to us.

-Patrick



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich at apple.com>
To: <deptheads at polycon.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: [Deptheads] John Paiva's after action report


> John sent this to me and the list serve choked on it (due to size). I
> reformatted it to plain text and fixed a couple of typos and added one
> note that's clearly labeled as such. Otherwise, this is all from John.
> Good food for thought and some stuff we need to address at Gamex.
>
> from John:
>
> All,
>
> OK, now we get to the part of the Con where you all hate me, so here
> it is.? It
> +is an 8 page Word document, if anyone has trouble downloading it, let
> me know.
>
> John
>
>


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