WindyCon After Action Report

[billroper]

Things went generally well overall and in my neck of the woods, thanks to a lot of help from my friends. The various Special Events that I was responsible for went off with a minimal number of glitches, the girls were pretty well behaved (save that Julie screamed whenever she was separated from Gretchen for any length of time) -- the SpaceTime show was largely saved by ladyat managing to get the baby to sleep for a while.

dave_ifversen made many things possible (along with qnofhrt), including the Fannish Feud session on Friday where both players and audience seemed to enjoy themselves. The Filkers beat the Techies, but not by a huge amount.

The Masquerade went well, although it could have used more entries. We need to figure out how to get more of the cool hall costumes into the Masquerade. I have ideas. I could use more. :) And the Dance apparently went well, so that was good too.

Next year, a new Chair and the same hotel, barring anything unforeseen happening.

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Why "WindyCon" and not "Windycon"? It was Windycon for the first several years I attended the con, and seems to have suddenly changed to having a capital C in the middle of the word for no apparent reason some years ago.

[billroper]

This is one of those long-standing arguments around the con. I seem to recall that Ross was a proponent of the capitalized middle C, but I may misremember at this remove. Asking him is right out.

Lenny was the stickler for "Dealers' Room" with the apostrophe...

Can you tell that I did Pubs for WindyCon a few times? :)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

In scanning the program books, the change happened at between Windycon 19 (Marie Bartlett-Sloan) and WindyCon XX (Dina Krause), so still more than half have had the lower case c.

For the room in which we sell things, and for the workshop for authors, I haven't been able to figure out if it should be Dealers' or Dealer's, ar Author's or Authors'.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Just grammatically, I would say Dealers' and Authors', because it is the room of many Dealers, not just one Dealer. Similarly for the workshop for Authors. So it's the Dealers' Room, but one dealer's table; the Authors' Workshop but this author's manuscript.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

At Marcon some years, the masquerade staff have approached kewl costumes with forms in hand and gushed at them until they agreed to appear.