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hazelchazSuggestions for Costume College: move Hospitality downstairs, to 180 (relocating Ops to Boardroom), and extend the hours earlier.
Room 180 is the suite that Gallifrey and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
animelosangeles used to use for their con suites. The problem with moving Ops to the Boardroom is that at Costume College, Ops is more than just Con Ops -- it's also Program Ops/Tech Storage. So perhaps the Boardroom isn't best for it, but it could go into a regular guestroom, because they'll need to be able to roll tech equipment carts in and out.
Certainly, a daytime Con Suite won't get a lot of traffic. It'll be as boring a post as the Costume Exhibit, with people dashing in to get a bottle of water and a piece of fruit, and maybe a roll or a peanut butter sandwich to eat on their way to their next class. And if we have that, we should have an obvious place inside the Costume Exhibit where they can put down their food while they browse the costumes. (The exhibit was in 184/186, just down the hall from 180.)
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ala_mokita and I are going to volunteer at Costume College again next year. We'll bring books to read and hang out in the Costume Exhibit, and watch the pretty costumes go by.)
So it comes down to people. In order to open the Con Suite/Hospitality earlier in the day, it needs someone to run the room. And a slight budget increase -- might not need to be that much if it doesn't get a huge amount of foot traffic -- and the convention's hotel liaison might need to make sure it's okay to serve snacks there. But I think it would be a worthwhile addition to Costume College.
Room 180 is the suite that Gallifrey and animelosangeles used to use for their con suites. The problem with moving Ops to the Boardroom is that at Costume College, Ops is more than just Con Ops -- it's also Program Ops/Tech Storage. So perhaps the Boardroom isn't best for it, but it could go into a regular guestroom, because they'll need to be able to roll tech equipment carts in and out.Certainly, a daytime Con Suite won't get a lot of traffic. It'll be as boring a post as the Costume Exhibit, with people dashing in to get a bottle of water and a piece of fruit, and maybe a roll or a peanut butter sandwich to eat on their way to their next class. And if we have that, we should have an obvious place inside the Costume Exhibit where they can put down their food while they browse the costumes. (The exhibit was in 184/186, just down the hall from 180.)
(I say "we" because it's looking like
ala_mokita and I are going to volunteer at Costume College again next year. We'll bring books to read and hang out in the Costume Exhibit, and watch the pretty costumes go by.)So it comes down to people. In order to open the Con Suite/Hospitality earlier in the day, it needs someone to run the room. And a slight budget increase -- might not need to be that much if it doesn't get a huge amount of foot traffic -- and the convention's hotel liaison might need to make sure it's okay to serve snacks there. But I think it would be a worthwhile addition to Costume College.
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Date: 2007-08-08 06:22 pm (UTC)Con Suites and Costume College
Date: 2007-08-08 06:38 pm (UTC)Answer: The Costumers Guild West Board runs the convention. I don't know who's "Dean" of next year's convention, but Colleen is now VP of the board. So she'd be one person you could talk to.
This past year, I sent e-mail to the Dean, and received no response to my messages volunteering until Colleen connected me up with the Volunteers coordinator. So the question is not "who's running the con" but more of "who is the right person to talk to"...