Eastercon

Apr 11, 2012 22:22

Well, I had a tremendous time at Eastercon. The unprecedented fact that it had sold all available memberships beforehand boded well; and the hard work put in by the team paid off in almost every way.

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cantab, writer: juliet mckenna, writer: charles stross, sf cons, writer: tricia sullivan, writer: paul cornell, writer: george rr martin

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bopeepsheep April 11 2012, 20:33:19 UTC
I was amused at the parallel conversations I had with you and glitterboy1 - both of you started out by telling me that you hadn't seen the other for [19-20] years. :)

As noted previously, smallclanger is visible in your games room pic [navy tshirt with his back to the camera - it said "Trust Me, I'm The Doctor" on the front] and I believe he spent most of his time in there when not a) building robots or b) "sonicking" hapless Atrium lurkers while dressed as Eleven (apologies to anyone reading who was bounced upon!). I wish I'd had the chance to stop and play something with him, but sitting on the floor isn't an option for me and the room was rarely empty enough to find table space! (We more than make up for this at home, of course.)

Lovely to finally meet you, and I look forward to more opportunities!

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alexmc April 11 2012, 20:35:11 UTC
> Unfortunately (as I found when compiling a subset of tweets on Monday morning for an event the previous evening) Twitter's memory is pretty shallow; to archive all of the Eastercon content at the time would have been pretty laborious, and by now it may be functionally impossible. Perhaps there are solutions here that I don't know about.

The project I was working on last year was a Twitter analytics system which should have been quite useful in recording tweets about a particular topic for subsequent reporting, analysis and statistics. If you have any suggestions for what would be useful to you at conventions then I am all ears.

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daveon April 12 2012, 02:20:03 UTC
There's quite a lot of stuff out there to do that with Twitter... but a lot of them are pay for services.

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daveon April 12 2012, 02:20:22 UTC
Plus I shudder when I hear the words analytics now...

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andrewducker April 12 2012, 07:19:58 UTC
Ooh, I'm fascinated to know what you thought of it.

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daveon April 12 2012, 02:31:43 UTC
We did the app for WorldCon and I think it makes a huge difference to the convention experience frankly. It's going to change the way things work.

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matgb April 12 2012, 05:43:43 UTC
So, you'll be in Bradford next year I take it? We're planning on going given it's just down the road.

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purplecthulhu April 12 2012, 08:01:23 UTC
Glad you've spotted that!

I'm not sure if I can do eastern next year as I may be out of the country :-(

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nwhyte April 12 2012, 08:59:05 UTC
Not sure, to be honest. Bradford is not quite as easy for me as Heathrow was. On the other hand I do want to support Juliet and her team. (And chilperic as FGoH.) So I will have to think about it.

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matgb April 12 2012, 09:50:42 UTC
It's not quite as easy, but it's not actually hard ;-)

Besides, you could make a detour to the National Media Museum to see the Dalek...

(Seriously, we couldn't afford it when it was last in Bradford, but can this time assuming nothign changes, and it's a single bus journey up the road, the hotel's around the corner from where Jennie was workign when I met her).

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