[Dragaera] What 'cha do'n? (Nov 2017)

Mon Mar 6 15:06:53 PST 2017

Isn't the 23rd Thanksgiving (not the week after)? While it means the
weekend is a holiday for a lot of US folks, it means the holiday is booked
for me, as I'll have family engagements.  (Also I hate traveling near
holidays, even if the twin cities are a quick flight from Nebraska.)

-- Rebecca Harbison

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Steve Rapaport via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> Serious interest, assuming they haven't decided that all international
> travellers must hand over all social media passwords by then.i will be
> living in Sweden then, but If I have both money and time, it will happen.
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 at 23:44, Corwin Brust via Dragaera <
> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
>
> > So, here’s an idea which I, myself, have thought of…
> >
> > If this threatens to take over the list, I guess DDB or Felix or
> > someone can bounce us to fetch our own subscribers, but, so y’allv’e
> > had it first…
> >
> > Let me know if you might be able to come, to help out, and all of your
> > best most and most fun ideas for a Steven Brust focused convention,
> > especially as may relate to test balloon for same in Minneapolis, Late
> > Fall 2017.
> >
> > For a number of years I’ve been discussing with various people the
> > concept of creating an SF convention around Steven Brust/Dragaera/Vlad
> > Taltos/etc/or so forth.  I now have a --somewhat long-shot-- plan to
> > pull together such a thing.  It’s crazy --- isn’t that enough?
> >
> > A one-year trial balloon, probably with a reg cap well under 500.
> > More like 100.  Maybe 250?  I think 50 should be fine, in terms of
> > pulling it off...
> >
> > One pro, several fahn guests
> >
> > Single track of programing designed by Steven
> >
> > Music and gaming, we think.  Probably.
> >
> > Food being kinda a thing, thinking fine-dining, Friday and Saturday
> > evening maybe? Could potentially be a separate ticket, or something,
> > we think, maybe?
> >
> > Stream/record programing and music (and cooking?) for supporting
> > members who can’t make it after all, people who missed the first year
> > should it keep going, and so on.
> >
> > THIS YEAR!
> >
> >
> > VALDCON -November, 24th-25th, 2017 in Minneapolis?  What could go wrong?
> >
> > ***
> >
> > I still need lots of help pulling this plan together, so I might give
> > up in the next several weeks if going public with the project doesn’t
> > flush out people interested in helping make it happen.  I’ve been
> > focused on keeping the commitments fairly modest for each of my
> > hearties, but let’s not kid ourselves -- convention building a quite a
> > job of work. A mighty Thank You out to those who’ve offered to help or
> > soon will.
> >
> > And then too, some sense that I would not go bankrupt if I signed an
> > hotel contract would be good.
> >
> > On that note, did I mention a have quite a number of SKZB related
> > goodies just at the moment?  Another round of MSS, some first editions
> > that could become signed first editions, posters, signed records that
> > are starting to get difficult to find and also that Dad has said
> > hang-out time with people is definitely top item on the menu if this
> > manages to come about?
> >
> > Which nearly brings me to the beauty of the all or nothing funding
> > model, especially for creating a new fan convention.  Like many
> > people, I’m interested in developing tools to make various complex and
> > extremely fun things a bit easier and less risky.  To that end, by
> > offering various types of convention membership opportunities to
> > interested potential convention members **only if we get enough
> > overall interest**, we can basically open a door for anyone who might
> > be able to take the idea further to come charging in with light-bulb
> > glowing and finger raised.
> >
> > Finally, more best for last than last for least, Dad has talked with a
> > few professional writers he allegedly knows, and who sound interested
> > in doing a lecture series style set of talks with him.  This would
> > include Emma Bull, Skyler White and Will Shetterly, would occur
> > Thursday, Nov 23rd --the Thursday following Thanksgiving, and Steven’s
> > actual birthday-- and would be a separately ticketed event supported
> > out of the same fund-raising initiative.
> >
> > Which fund-raising initiative is hereby declared potentially in season
> > subject to our being shouted down by you, our peers in Steven’s fan
> > base.
> >
> >
> > To sum up --b/c fuck corporate america but hey, bullet-point lists!
> >
> > - All or nothing flash-fundraising initiative to see if this idea/this
> > year could happen
> > - Coming soon to a social financing platform near you!
> > - Lots of interesting things sitting around, here and there.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your thoughts and all whatever support may befit
> > and especially too for sticking with good 'ol dragaera.info, part of
> > your low-key first-to-know network of internet services.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Corwin
> > 612-217-1742
> > 612-695-4276 (mobile)
> > corwin.brust (skype)
> > corwin at bru.st
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