[PS] final mailing to participants, program packets and sign shop details

[Michael Whitehouse]

At 01:51 AM 1/1/2008, you wrote:
>Here are a few details between now and the con 
>that I'm not clear on what the plan is.
>
>1) In the past, we've mailed out a final mailing 
>to participants that had not only their panels 
>but the email addresses of the other people on 
>the panels so that the panelists could 
>coordinate before the event if they 
>desired.  Tracy, do you have a sample of that 
>mail for Michael?  Are we going to do that again this year?

I know the email that you're talking about. I'll 
draft something up to go at the top of it. Now 
that we have the final (mostly) schedule, we can send that out.

>2) In the past we've printed the panelist 
>schedules onto the backs of the tent 
>cards.  There must have been some Zambia magic 
>to make that happen.  Do we have that as a 
>standard Zambia report? Anyone remember the details?
>
>3) Last year, we never did get the room signs 
>that tell what's happening where 
>together.  Sometime in December, I had a 
>correspondence with Zambia and sign shop about a 
>csv dump that would have the right information 
>for a Microsoft Word merge  to take place to 
>make those signs.  That's probably a new Zambia 
>report.  What's the status of it?



>Also, Michael, when are you planning to have packets put together?

That is an excellent question. From what I 
gather, a packet contains a welcome letter, table 
tent with sticker, paper schedule, ribbon and 
survey. If I can get the files to print, I can 
pick up the materials and print them out here. I 
can then use my superhuman envelop stuffing speed 
and a couple folks out here to throw them 
together. (I worked in a fulfillment center for 
three years and developed the rarely usable skill 
of stuffing envelopes really really fast.)

I have Office and am vaguely conversant with it, 
so if someone were to get me an Excel file of 
schedules I could merge it and print it and stuff 
it. Ribbons could be thrown in once we get to the con.


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