Things that make you go hmmmm....

[kitanzi]

I just heard from someone who attended a panel at Boskone about disasters concoms had faced at various cons. He related, minus the names of the guilty, a little tale he heard there about a con which was suddenly forced to find a replacement treasurer, for reasons I won't repeat here in spite of them apparently having been given there.

That's not what caught my attention, though - the story teller's punchline was apparently "We had to find someone stupid enough to be Treasurer". Ahem.

*sigh* (Yes, I do expect it was said that way to make it a punchline. Nonetheless.... hmmmmm.)

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I haven't before - Gafilk is the first. Arisia is MUCH larger, and I'm sure correspondingly more complicated and time consuming.

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[bedlamhouse]

GAFilk actually follows the "easy convention model" of:

- take money from members
- give money to airlines
- give money to hotel
- give money to grocery stores
- marvel at shiny new penny still in cash bag at end of giving money away

Which is much better than the "oopsie convention model" for a con I ran many years ago, which was:

- take money from members
- give money to airlines
- realize airlines needed a lot more money than you expected, take money from concom
- give money to hotel
- give money to grocery stores
- realize people were really, really hungry, take more money from concom
- breathe sigh of relief that no one lynched you for leaving the convention in the red

That model only works for conventions with high-maintenance guests, ravenous hordes of members, and by-laws that allow concom assessments. None of which apply to GAFilk. We hope.

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[gingicat]

Sounds like a good model to me. :) (The first, that is.)

It was good to see you and ladyat at Boskone!

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I like the first method much better, myself - is it safe to ask which con you were running that had the second model?