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(If you're associated with the ConComm and want to share these remarks with Arisia folks, go ahead.)
I was really happy with the speed and ease of Registration. (And also with the traffic-control gopher just at the point where the line needed to fork.)
For the whole time I was there, all the elevators worked. I tried to minimalize my use of them, but since my room was on 12 there were some unavoidable times. I encountered no incidents of elevator rudeness, and only a vanishingly small amount of line-jumping. And the hotel staff have clearly adjusted to us - they were unfailingly courteous every time I encountered them.
I am not a mundane. But sometimes I felt a little socially outlying for wearing clothes that were not obviously weird. (Dendarii Covert Ops shirt) Arisia seems to go overboard in the opposite direction as far as affirming alternate lifestyles. I felt like a misfit some of the time since I was not wearing club clothes, bondage gear, hall costume, or garb. Maybe it's just generation gappy.
No offense meant to Ms. Gilman or the other special guests, whose work I am unfamiliar with, but I tend to choose panels based on the panelists, with emphasis on writers. This year's writer panelists didn't grab me.
I wonder about the long-term viability of Clear Ether, in a facility where there is free building-wide wifi. The issues of Clear Ether were not especially well circulated (I know of only two places where they were put for distribution), and it seems to me that in future years, the committee might consider electronic publication for announcements, panel changes, party flyers, and masquerade pics. I wasn't the only one reading LJ in a panel room, and could easily have checked a blog or a static pdf file with the same contents as Clear Ether. A website won't be a 100% substitute, esp not right away, but I heard that CE printed1000 700 copies of each issue. Where did they all go? (That said -- it was a nice, clear, newsletter.)
The Labyrinth was a nice feature. Having it set up for more hours would be even nicer.
Requests:
More movies, films, and trailers, on a bigger screen, please!
Better publicity for Arisia TV (I found out it had existed after I got home).
More places to sit and socialize and read.
More booksellers. (And if possible, some more functional room adaptations for the dealers on Dealers' Row.)
Can we do anything with recycling? Or get the hotel to do so? All those Pepsi cans and 2-L Coke bottles seemed to have gone in the mixed trash.
ETA: Kudos to Jim, Kate and other Viable Paradise people for bagel breakfast on Sunday. (It was amusing to find archipelagean overlap, as Kate turned out to be another Eastern Star member, from Melrose.)
A bummer that the con seems to have been blown off by the food truck(s) we had expected to find out front. I hope they realize how much revenue they didn't get, nyah.
I was really happy with the speed and ease of Registration. (And also with the traffic-control gopher just at the point where the line needed to fork.)
For the whole time I was there, all the elevators worked. I tried to minimalize my use of them, but since my room was on 12 there were some unavoidable times. I encountered no incidents of elevator rudeness, and only a vanishingly small amount of line-jumping. And the hotel staff have clearly adjusted to us - they were unfailingly courteous every time I encountered them.
I am not a mundane. But sometimes I felt a little socially outlying for wearing clothes that were not obviously weird. (Dendarii Covert Ops shirt) Arisia seems to go overboard in the opposite direction as far as affirming alternate lifestyles. I felt like a misfit some of the time since I was not wearing club clothes, bondage gear, hall costume, or garb. Maybe it's just generation gappy.
No offense meant to Ms. Gilman or the other special guests, whose work I am unfamiliar with, but I tend to choose panels based on the panelists, with emphasis on writers. This year's writer panelists didn't grab me.
I wonder about the long-term viability of Clear Ether, in a facility where there is free building-wide wifi. The issues of Clear Ether were not especially well circulated (I know of only two places where they were put for distribution), and it seems to me that in future years, the committee might consider electronic publication for announcements, panel changes, party flyers, and masquerade pics. I wasn't the only one reading LJ in a panel room, and could easily have checked a blog or a static pdf file with the same contents as Clear Ether. A website won't be a 100% substitute, esp not right away, but I heard that CE printed
The Labyrinth was a nice feature. Having it set up for more hours would be even nicer.
Requests:
More movies, films, and trailers, on a bigger screen, please!
Better publicity for Arisia TV (I found out it had existed after I got home).
More places to sit and socialize and read.
More booksellers. (And if possible, some more functional room adaptations for the dealers on Dealers' Row.)
Can we do anything with recycling? Or get the hotel to do so? All those Pepsi cans and 2-L Coke bottles seemed to have gone in the mixed trash.
ETA: Kudos to Jim, Kate and other Viable Paradise people for bagel breakfast on Sunday. (It was amusing to find archipelagean overlap, as Kate turned out to be another Eastern Star member, from Melrose.)
A bummer that the con seems to have been blown off by the food truck(s) we had expected to find out front. I hope they realize how much revenue they didn't get, nyah.
