West Coast Mini-Con Needs Help

[fd ski]

registered.

[Curval]

Wife gave you MORE time away ski?  I'm impressed.  

[Lance]

That is cool, Funked.  I just would be pissed as hell right now if it were me.  This damn sure isn't a 'mini-con' in terms of the work you and the other organizers have put into it.  Arranging hotels, lining up guest speakers, getting a location and caterers for a banquet, creating a website, arranging networking and internet access for attendees, etc...  And I am sure there is more that I am not even thinking of.  

Like Nash said, people are always gung ho until its time to come out of pocket.  I hope you pull it off, but I have a feeling that by the time its all over, it would have been cheaper for you to go to Indy.

[funkedup]

Originally posted by Lance
That is cool, Funked.  I just would be pissed as hell right now if it were me.  This damn sure isn't a 'mini-con' in terms of the work you and the other organizers have put into it.  Arranging hotels, lining up guest speakers, getting a location and caterers for a banquet, creating a website, arranging networking and internet access for attendees, etc...  And I am sure there is more that I am not even thinking of.  

Like Nash said, people are always gung ho until its time to come out of pocket.  I hope you pull it off, but I have a feeling that by the time its all over, it would have been cheaper for you to go to Indy.

I'm not pissed.  I knew the risks.  Most of the work was fun and fairly easy.  I think I must be like the Nyborgs in Glengarry Glen Ross - I like talking to salespeople.  Also Mietla, Ramzey, Llama, Jordi, Wulfie, and MrLars have helped me.  And some Canuck is supposedly making t-shirt graphics for us.  

[funkedup]

Originally posted by fd ski
registered.

OMG CALIFORNIA JUST GOT UGLIER!!!
WTG SKIP

[funkedup]

Originally posted by Nash
This seems to *always* happen... Whether it's this con, an event, an idea for some 2v2 league, whatever. It's always "Sounds great - I'm in!".... then *poof*..... things go almost dead silent when it comes time to actually commit.
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Yep I'm aware of the tendency, and planned for it, but maybe not enough.  I think we're gonna make it though.  

[fd ski]

Curval, she's on 1 month's vacations to poland now She OWES me

[BGBMAW]

please post latest link to info and registtration page..thx:)

BiGB

[Karnak]

BGBMAW,

Here ya go:

http://www.northoltwing.com/minicon/

[Skorpyon]

The registration dates on the website did not give the impression that this was such an urgent, time-critical issue, (9/25 hotel, 10/9 final registration deadline).  At least one, maybe two squaddies, a good friend of mine who is just getting in to AH, and I are very interested, but are unable to commit this early due to work schedules.  The friend is about 1 1/2 hrs from SJ, and the squaddies and I are about 2.  Sorry I can't be more set on confirmation at this point.  Hopefully it all comes together.  Thx for settin it up!  

[funkedup]

Yep good point.  The dates on the website are the actual deadlines, i.e. you can't register after that point.

Right now it is looking good.  We got a bunch of registrations over the last 48 hours.  We haven't hit the break-even point yet but I think we'll go ahead and finalize the contract and forget about cancelling.  

[Skorpyon]

 Well, there is no doubt we here are all going to make every attempt to make it, even if some can only drive up for one of the days.  Hope to see ya there.

[Deviant]

Funked,

Unless you are worried that there might not be enough room.

What about posting about this at the IL2/FB forum at SimHQ??

 I know there are many SF Bay Area guys in there.

                                     

[funkedup]

Fli if you have an account over there, go ahead and post.  I'm trying to contact Stigler to get him on board.  

[funkedup]

Thanks everybody for all the support.  It looks like we are out of the woods.  The Mini-Con is going to happen.