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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2003-05-16 07:42 am
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God damn it!

Once again, it is time for the annual Baycon Programming dance! The cone is about two weeks away. I've been a panelist for the last few years. And for the third year in a row, I have no idea if I'm coming back this year!

How difficult is it to compile a list of e-mail addresses and make contact with panelists in January? I've already had contact with Orycon.. and that is in November! This is just unacceptable. Because I am expecting to be a panelist. If I'm not, that means that neither Kiri or I can afford the convention.

Several e-mails to programming have gone unanswered, and I've even e-mailed the chair to ask what was up? Nothing.

Pisses me off. The con is drowning in politics if they can't get a simple staff position filled in time to contact panelists in a timely manner.
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[identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com 2003-05-16 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
From their latest PR, it looks as if they have been inviting people. They have a head of Programming (Kathryn Daugherty with Dierdre Saoirse Moen as second) and a reasonably full staff as well. You may not be on their panelist list this year. I've been through that dance myself. It happens. People fall off. It bites, but that's how it goes.
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[personal profile] kshandra 2003-05-16 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Latest PR? Am I high, or shouldn't we have been getting them, as we were convention attendees last year? And I find it utterly appalling that this "reasonably full staff" is apparently incapable of answering their email without so much as a "piss off, we've had it with you."
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