[Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up ASAP!)

Wed Jun 9 22:57:13 PDT 2010

If we could get someone to shoot some videos of the con that would be nice  
to have...downloadable videos of highlights of each area maybe?

John

In a message dated 6/9/2010 10:20:57 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ealdrich at penguinlust.org writes:

Ok,  we're going to need some help. We need to get publicity out. We need 
to get  the web site updated. Tanya has no time and I have very little. So 
volunteers  are needed. Tasks in no particular order:  

1) FIX THE FORUM. Requires advanced php skill that I don't have to do it  
efficiently
2) Add news articles. We have one from Neil. Someone needs to make sure  it 
gets to Tanya and added to the news feed if nothing else
3) get the mail blurbs out -- This I think we can handle
4) get event up on the site. If we bury them in events this might be over  
with quickly.
5) get the special events/guests pages up. We just need the content
6) Update the web site. Flash is bad, and it's not just the Apple person  
in me saying that. It crashes, it doesn't work on mobile browsers worth a  
darn, and it's slooooooow. A design tweak is to the front would be good. A  
radical change isn't practical
7) Get the Radisson on board with things. I'll try.
8) Add new web pages. Anyone know php, html and sql well enough to put a  
web page together? If you do, you can be a big help. Tanya cannot do it  
alone.

Yes, we need to be on a war footing. They haven't been paying attention  to 
what we've been doing since it appears May last year, our low point for  
miniatures. They are taking on our board games and rpgs as well -- we need to  
lock in commitments on these ASAP, though RPGs will be hard due to the  
venue.

Eric

On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:33 AM, _thatericn at aol.com_ (mailto:thatericn at aol.com)  
wrote:

I completely and totally agree about our PUBLIC stance. I would also  
suggest that in publicity and public statements, that we generally ignore  them. 
The last thing we need to do is help publicize them by talking about  them!

That being said, INTERNALLY we need to be on a war footing.  Their  
scheduling against us is an undisguised declaration of war. No matter how  
diplomatic we were/are/want to be/want to look, we do not want to "lose" or  let 
their aggression and animosity pay off.

As far as the segment of gamers out there with wildly deluded  expectations 
of what a game convention is capable of being, we can only do  our best for 
the widest segment of gamers, and hope they come to their  senses. Not much 
else can be done.

Regarding "merging": that is likely their plan all along, in a  backhanded 
way. Force us to concede Labor Day weekend to them; give up.  Of course, 
then, in a year or two - surprise! - it's their President's Day  con and then 
their Memorial Day con.

"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,  
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good  sense. 
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming  might of 
the enemy." - Winston Churchill

... turning off the hyperbole machine...

Eric N.

-----Original  Message-----
From: Harmon Ward <_hjw at pacbell.net_ (mailto:hjw at pacbell.net) >
To: _deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net) ; 
_tim at stugiii.com_ (mailto:tim at stugiii.com) 
Sent: Wed, Jun 9, 2010  8:12 am
Subject: RE: [Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up  ASAP!)

I would suggest that our response to their confrontational tone should be 
one of reconciliation. They are selling this Convention based on the
 negatives that Strategicon carries over from the past management. In my
 opinion, some of those are deserved and most of them  are based on people
 not understanding how difficult running a convention with mostly volunteer
 labor is. Some people pay $40 for a four day event and expect $72 dollar 
per
 day Disneyland level service, and even Disneyland has people who hate it.

 Since their tone is confrontational, a confrontational response from us 
will
 just play into their hand. I would like to merge their future into ours, or
 at least get them set up on another weekend. I don't know if it's possible,
 given their attitude, but it would work better than having two groups
 fighting over scraps while Blizzard Con is selling out 15,000 seats at the
 Anaheim Convention Center in 40 minutes at $125 a ticket. 
 _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlizzCon_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlizzCon) 

 Harmon Ward
 Historical Miniatures

 -----Original Message-----
 From: _deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net_ 
(mailto:deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net) 
 [_mailto:deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net_ 
(mailto:deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net?) ] On Behalf Of Tim
 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:38 PM
 To: _deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net) 
 Subject: Re: [Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up ASAP!)

 _http://theminiaturespage.com/news/65880/_ 
(http://theminiaturespage.com/news/65880/) 

 We should counter this
 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

 -----Original Message-----
 From: _thatericn at aol.com_ (mailto:thatericn at aol.com) 
 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:38:53 
 To: <_deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net) >
 Subject: Re: [Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up ASAP!)

 _______________________________________________
 Deptheads mailing list
 _Deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:Deptheads at strategicon.net) 
 _http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads_ 
(http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads) 

 _______________________________________________
 Deptheads mailing list
 _Deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:Deptheads at strategicon.net) 
 _http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads_ 
(http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads) 

 _______________________________________________
 Deptheads mailing list
 _Deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:Deptheads at strategicon.net) 
 _http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads_ 
(http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads) 

_______________________________________________
Deptheads  mailing list
_Deptheads at strategicon.net_ (mailto:Deptheads at strategicon.net) 
http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads

=

_______________________________________________
Deptheads  mailing  list
Deptheads at strategicon.net
http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mordred.punk.net/pipermail/deptheads/attachments/20100609/074a031e/attachment-0001.htm