(crossposted from Second Citizen by FlipperPA Peregrine)
Greetings!
The SLCC team has processed quite a bit of feedback. Thank you to everyone who responded to the survey. If you haven’t seen the results to the survey, Jennyfur did a great job summarizing the key points here: http://jennyfursblogshite.blogspot.com/
Choosing a location is always the most polarizing part of our yearly tasks in running the SLCC. Everyone wants to have it as close to them as possible, and that is understandable and just part of human nature. However, we must consider many factors when choosing a location:
(1) Popular demand. How many people will attend at a given location? Which locations are voted the most popular? What demographics are there to support the location choice?
(2) Ground support. It is crucial to have key volunteers in the destination city who are willing to put in quite a bit of work; several hours per week from now until the event itself, and many hours in the weeks leading up to the event. The week before the event, a good thirty hours will be required from several people who are present in the city itself.
(3) Cost of event, cost to attendee. Hotels, food, airfare, entry: it all adds up. Certain cities (San Francisco, Philadelphia) have much more affordable hotels than others (New York, Boston). Other factors weigh in as well; for example, we were able to use the space in the New York Law School for a very good rate as part of State of Play, however, our cost for convention space last year at Fort Mason was much higher. All of these factor in.
There are many other smaller factors, but these are the big three.
That said, with Las Vegas and Chicago as the two leading vote getters, we need to now reach out to people from either city who would be willing to be volunteers. This is not a casual position; it is a lot of hard work, a lot of commitment, and not paid.
Our goal for this year is to find a single location to host the event instead of throughout a city. What we’re hoping to do is find a hotel that will give us the space we need for the convention itself in return for guaranteeing a number of rooms. Then, if you book a room, your convention entry is covered. Of course, you’ll still be able to pay to enter if you don’t want to stay at the hotel.
So to the community: it is up to you! Please get in touch with us if you’re truly interested in sponsoring as a volunteer in one of these two cities, or we’ll have to look into other posibilities.
Thanks again for your support and continued interest.
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