[ST] Arisia going to 4 days

[David D'Antonio]

Hi Carsten,

On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Carsten Turner wrote:

> In 2005, we had a con that effectively ran into late hours on  
> Sunday night.
> As far as I could see, no-one was bleeding out of their eyeballs  
> over that. Granted, we had extenuating circumstances, but in all,  
> we did pretty damn well by any measure.

I can tell you that the DivHeads were pretty burnt and the conChair  
was damned toasty, too. And those extenuating circumstances resulted  
in LOTS of people leaving Saturday so we had far fewer folks on  
Sunday than normal.

> I really don't see what the fuss is about. Let's give it a shot,  
> and if it doesn't work, we know not to do it again.
> Otherwise, we're shooting at shadows in the dark.

The fuss is about burning people out so they don't want to come back  
in 2009.

> -=>Carsten:-)
>
DDA

> On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:25 PM, SciFiFanBoston at aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Since we have a long weekend, why not at least keep the convention  
>> going until later on Sunday?  I think shutting down most programs  
>> and other things by 4pm on Sunday (or earlier for Art Show and  
>> such) effectively makes this a one day convention.  If we could at  
>> least stay open all day on Sunday, and do pack-out on Monday...  
>> well, I just think it makes us a better convention.
>>
>> That is all,
>> -Mary_______________________________________________
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DDA
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