Thanks for posting this here. While I certainly think Martha's made the right decision for her own health in cancelling for 2007, I am concerned that it might be scheduled for 2008, as Con.Txt is planned then. In fact, it was postponed for 2007 so as not to compete with Connexions this year. Since they graciously deferred to Martha for this year, I would hope she might do the same, and postpone to a later date, not 2008, as there is already an east coast con at that general time of year.
Hey, Shay. I agree with you, Martha made the right decision postponing Connexions until 2008. Her health (and life) is more important than a convention.
As for Connexions and Con.txt being in the same year. Well, Connexions has always been an annual convention and had she not had to cancel for health reasons, Connexions would still be held next year.
Well, no, actually of late it's not annual. She skipped 2006, remember? And there was talk that 2007 might be the last one. I remember that from the 2005 con.
In any case, since I'm not able to attend both, nor are many of my friends, I'll have to choose one...and I've already committed to Con.Txt in 2008. It's a shame.
While the Concomm appreciates that people would like to get the word out about the cancellation as soon as possible, this announcement should have been made by Martha herself or by someone who had her permission to make it.
In a private e-mail to the convention committee, Martha stated she was going to post the cancellation notice HERSELF to the Livejournal, which is why no one on the concom posted it for her. I think she would have posted it today had it not been posted yesterday by someone else.
this announcement should have been made by Martha herself or by someone who had her permission to make it.
I agree. It should have been. But it wasn't.
1) It had been more than 24 hours since the Yahoo post with no sign of it showing up on this comm.
2) In the connexions post previous to this one, it was mentioned that Martha would make an announcement on the Yahoo list but no mention was made of announcing it on the LJ comm.
3) I felt that time was of the essence as some of my friends were talking about buying plane tickets -- in some cases non-refundable plane tickets costing several hundreds of dollars.
So I made the decision to post here letter here, to the official Connexions LJ comm.
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As for Connexions and Con.txt being in the same year. Well, Connexions has always been an annual convention and had she not had to cancel for health reasons, Connexions would still be held next year.
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In any case, since I'm not able to attend both, nor are many of my friends, I'll have to choose one...and I've already committed to Con.Txt in 2008. It's a shame.
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In a private e-mail to the convention committee, Martha stated she was going to post the cancellation notice HERSELF to the Livejournal, which is why no one on the concom posted it for her. I think she would have posted it today had it not been posted yesterday by someone else.
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I agree. It should have been. But it wasn't.
1) It had been more than 24 hours since the Yahoo post with no sign of it showing up on this comm.
2) In the connexions post previous to this one, it was mentioned that Martha would make an announcement on the Yahoo list but no mention was made of announcing it on the LJ comm.
3) I felt that time was of the essence as some of my friends were talking about buying plane tickets -- in some cases non-refundable plane tickets costing several hundreds of dollars.
So I made the decision to post here letter here, to the official Connexions LJ comm.
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