[Deptheads] 1560 is official

[Dean Taylor]

Congratulations, you two.  Sorry I won't be there to meet him.  If BGHQ has
overflow, we'll direct them your way.

-Dean

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric M. Aldrich I
<ealdrich at penguinlust.org>wrote:

> We had more than we needed in places, but we also had a few shortages. It
> balanced out. I actually prefer to run with a slight surplus. A couple of
> people with little to do is better than several people going insane trying
> to plug holes.
>
> By the way, the babysitters made this con far easier than previous ones.
> If it weren't for a total baby meltdown Saturday morning which put Tanya on
> edge a good chunk of the day, it would have been almost perfect. We still
> need someone to cover Fridays -- Eric Nyquist did his best but won't
> necessarily be available for this in the future -- but otherwise I can't
> complain. Needed to get to the store and never did, however.
>
> This may or may not be an issue at Orccon. For those that don't know,
> we're expecting kid number 2 in January. Tanya almost certainly will not be
> at Orccon, and I don't know what my schedule will be. I could be there by
> myself, with Keith, or not at all. If it's the with Keith scenario, I will
> need all the help I can get.
>
> It also means we will need to plan ahead and get stuff done early. More on
> that later.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 05:15:25PM -0700, Dean Taylor wrote:
> > This is good to hear - considering that I had more volunteers at the BGHQ
> > than we really needed, for once, it's _very_ good to hear.
> >
> > -Dean
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Eric Aldrich <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So we did *really* well -- up almost 25 percent year over year.
> > >
> > > And we did it the right way too -- the ratio of volunteers to paid
> > > attendees was right about where I wanted it. I don't think we were
> hurting
> > > for volunteers, but we weren't swimming in them either.
> > >
> > > On paper, this was the largest Gateway of the century (we have records
> > > back to 2001, so we can safely make that claim).
> > >
> > > News item will be posted later tonight.
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
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