Don't worry, I'm not frustrated, and I have accepted it for what it is. What it is is just no longer what I want. That's fine, I can just not go, and the thought that not going for the last 2 years has saved me well over £500 helps too.
The programme bod in a large, well organised team with two years to plan, plenty of contacts and good historical information passed on from previous years can influence the programme at BiCon, I'll agree. (When I designed the programme for BiCon 13, I was also dealing with the venue, accommodation, budget and correspondance so I didn't have a lot of time to shape it!). But even so only to a degree. You can't make people run workshops on things they're not interested in, and you can't get the people who might run the right workshops to even come to BiCon if they came last year and didn't find enough to interest them.
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Date: 2004-09-07 12:02 pm (UTC)The programme bod in a large, well organised team with two years to plan, plenty of contacts and good historical information passed on from previous years can influence the programme at BiCon, I'll agree. (When I designed the programme for BiCon 13, I was also dealing with the venue, accommodation, budget and correspondance so I didn't have a lot of time to shape it!). But even so only to a degree. You can't make people run workshops on things they're not interested in, and you can't get the people who might run the right workshops to even come to BiCon if they came last year and didn't find enough to interest them.