[ST] Arisia going to 4 days

[David D'Antonio]

Hi Skip,

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Skip Morris wrote:

> And there are some of us that believe that by lengthening the
> convention will result in less staff burnout since we'll be doing
> much the same thing over a longer span of hours.

I have to disagree; we'll be doing *more* stuff over that longer span  
of hours. We'll need more events to fill the Ballrooms and we'll need  
more Programming and more Fast Track and more Art Show hours, etc.  
The *point* of extending the con is to "do more," right? Otherwise,  
why bother?

>
> For those that claim we should just run a longer con on Sunday,
> that's really not feasible.  We already run as long as we can on
> Sunday and still have time for teardown.

Right. In fact, we run into Monday getting stuff back to storage.  
This way, we'd run into Tuesday.
>
> I too have to work on MLK day.  But I'd really relish the idea of
> being able to actually see my friends instead of having no time
> what-so-ever while the convention is going on.

You won't see your friends any more than you do now; you'll just keep  
going for an extra day at the same workload.

The only way you'd see your friends is if we have *two* staffs and we  
switch over Saturday night. And that ain't gonna happen. :-(
>
> /Skip

DDA

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DDA
Events DivHead, Arisia '07 (retired)