[Deptheads] Strategicon Idea

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I'm with John. I don't see any reason why it can't be done through the
existing systems already in place, and trying to set up something new for
it would just add confusion for little or no gain.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: John Paiva  evil5757 at aol.com
>
> Logistically draining for the gain and almost (9 out of 10) never goes
> off. Better luck either going balls in and making it a scheduled event or
> open gaming it.
>
> John
>
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net>
> Date: 07/14/2017 6:59 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net>
> Subject: [Deptheads] Strategicon Idea
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>   In a conversation with a potential GM, the idea of "appointment gaming"
> came up.  What I mean by this is a GM who wants to bring a game to con and
> play it with others, but does not want to run an event or fill out
> paperwork.  They just want to play their game with people at the convention.
>   I was wondering if there is a system or program we could use to
> facilitate this.  I know Open Gaming used to have "Players Wanted" flags,
> but I was thinking something more technologically advanced and less
> random.  It could be something along the lines of an event board, maybe
> like a FB page or old school BBS, where people could say "I want to play
> game X at time Y and have room for Z players."  Maybe even include an email
> address so you could contact this person.
>   I think we have talked about this in the past and I have forgotten why
> we don't do this, so I am just throwing this out here now, before the
> meeting, so someone can remind me why we don't.  Or maybe this would be a
> good time to reevaluate this idea and see if it's something we are
> interested in trying, especially with the website being rebuilt.  Anyway,
> it came up in a conversation and I thought I would mention it.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Shane Sauby
> Boardgames Supervisor
>
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