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morbid79:
Year long planning time won't help; people will still bail. :)
valley_parade:
ITT: Mike pulls out of Tronnocon at the last second, holes himself up in his apartment for the weekend.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 07 May 2008, 04:19 ---Perhaps so that the next one is slightly less of a clusterfuck?
Just a thought.
--- End quote ---
Mike's right. That really won't help. In case you've forgotten, this meet has been planned for close to a year now. To be honest, I think the long term planning and grand scope of it is what caused the most damage. Rachel and I booked the room back in January, a full five months in advance. Apparently, that was too early for some people to commit. Shit comes up suddenly and plans change, especially at the age of many folks on this forum.
Honestly, the primary conclusion I've drawn from this recent fiasco is that this forum may be too diverse for this to ever work on such a grand scale. We have a very distinct group of folks who are used to being on their own and managing their money in advance. Those same people cannot make sudden and immediate large scale plans as they have other responsibilities and obligations. This group directly conflicts with the younger, less stable crowd. This crowd needs to do things more on the spur of the moment, because they either lack the foresight to properly manage things or they simply have a more chaotic lifestyle due to less predictable routines such as school and reliance upon others, though with less responsibility, their routine is more easily shuffled. Then there's the folks who are lurking anywhere in the middle and the unpredictabilities of life and emergencies.
All that is to say essentially: I'm jaded and next time I'm just getting my own room and letting everyone else sort their shit out themselves. Less organized? Totally. But significantly easier to manage.
0bsessions:
I'm not saying the whole event has been a fiasco, just the hostel idea. It seemed like a great idea at the onset, but in retrospect, it was not a wise decision. It was an idea that was kind of doomed to failure due to there being a necessity of about fourteen people all coming through on their end of the bargain. All told, it worked out a lot better than it had any business working out, but that still wasn't good enough. Unfortunately, due to the alleged popularity of that particular place, we HAD to book it that far in advance to get the space to ourselves.
Patrick:
I'm not saying Tronno's doomed to total failure, it's just that it appears to have been stuck under the semi-success, semi-"learning experience" category.
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