From jill at pothole.com Wed Jul 2 11:47:20 2008 From: jill at pothole.com (Jill Eastlake) Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:47:20 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] volunteer? Message-ID: <345E78D9-7AE1-4A54-B3C4-E171C5EE0219@pothole.com> Hello Fine People, The next Arisia '09 Con Comm meeting is a party at my place on Sunday, July 20, at 2 pm. The Northern Lights Costumers' Guild is also meeting that day at my house starting at 10 am with breakfast. Arisians are welcome to come early, and RSVP to make sure there's enough breakfast. People will be requested to leave by 9 pm. As many of you know, I am Directing the Worldcon Masquerade in Denver in early August. That has taken up many of my brain cells and rendered me otherwise useless for complex things. I have a premonition that I will recover from this brain drain by the end of the summer, some time around August 15 or so, even. So, I would like your help. Food: We have a grill. Arisia '09 will fund the purchase of hot dogs and hamburgers and some cheese. Perhaps even some chicken. We need someone out there to take charge of purchasing, cooking, etc. There's a local BJs and I have a membership. They also have the least expensive gas around for anyone who needs a fill up. Make sure you bring a BJs member with you to the gas station. We have a popcorn machine ready and able to do its thing. I think it's more fun, and less work, to have people bring things, so a coordinator for a pot luck meal would be appreciated. Games: Rick has volunteered to bring his Guitar Hero setup. There's a new PS3 in my living room (not compatible with old PS2 games). It is available for use. It would be fun to have some outside yard games. If anyone has croquet, badminton, bocce, and would be willing to bring it. Perhaps frisbee? Card games? We only have regular cards, but others are welcome as well. Transportation: We live in Milford, just outside of 495. There is a commuter train line that goes to 495/Forge Village from in town. Rides will be available from the train station. I'd like someone to coordinate car pools from in town. Most of those living in the Cambridge/Somerville area don't own cars... And, finally, remember to bring your family and friends. Let them see what you do in your spare time, for fun. Maybe they'd like to help? Maybe they'd just like to see the kind of people you hang out with in January at a hotel when it's likely to snow. Come one, come all. And, please to assist me. Thanks, Jill _______________________________________________ staff-announce mailing list staff-announce at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff-announce From kovalcik at alum.mit.edu Sun Jul 13 00:44:18 2008 From: kovalcik at alum.mit.edu (Rick Kovalcik) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:44:18 -0000 Subject: [ST] Readercon Green Room help neeed Message-ID: From: Val Grimm Hi, my name is Val Grimm, and I'm running the consuite at Readercon for the first time. I'm looking for a crew foreperson to oversee the running of our Green Room; I'm already working on meeting both venues' staffing needs and will also be handling the shopping. If you're interested, please email me at val.grimm at gmail.com (Readercon is 7/18 to 20 at the Burlington Marriott.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://arisia.org/pipermail/staff/attachments/20080713/db815f97/attachment.htm From jill at pothole.com Mon Jul 14 21:54:57 2008 From: jill at pothole.com (Jill Eastlake) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:54:57 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] Arisia Party - now August 17 Message-ID: <0A5843BD-B03B-4EA0-88AB-654B701E7A00@pothole.com> Hello Fellow Arisians, This week's Arisia Convention Party has been RESCHEDULED from Sunday July 20 to Sunday August 17, 2008, at Chez Wood (the home of Rick Kovalcik and Susan Mozzicato) in Newton Centre. So, the next Arisia Convention Committee meeting will be held on Sunday, August 17, at Chez Wood in Newton immediately following the Arisia Corporate meeting (promised to be short). The Corporate meeting starts at 2pm. Come and see how it's done, vote, or take this opportunity to join the corporation. After the Corporate meeting we expect to talk / smof about Convention business for a while and then start the party about 4 PM. We will be having a BBQ. Arisia will provide the usual main items (soft drinks, hot dogs, hamburgers, rolls, and the veggie equivalents). People can bring a side dish or dessert to share if they want as well as anything special they want to drink. Please send any requests or food restrictions to me personally at least a week before the party. Again ? everyone is welcome to enjoy the food and fun. Bring your family and friends. I look forward to seeing you there. Jill Chez Wood, aka the Kovalcik-Mozzicto residence is located at 19 Chesley Road in Newton Centre. It is three short blocks from the Newton Centre stop on the Riverside (D) Branch of the Green Line. Directions are online at http://corp.arisia.org/corpdirections-kmhome . _______________________________________________ staff-announce mailing list staff-announce at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff-announce From samantha.dings at comcast.net Wed Jul 16 15:48:54 2008 From: samantha.dings at comcast.net (samantha.dings at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:48:54 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on Message-ID: <071620081947.14362.487E5046000A0CCA0000381A22007354469C0902070BD20E089B020E030E9C@comcast.net> Hi folks, I know a few folks are keeping an eye on this, but I wanted to pass along a bit of stuff about this. JumpCon Boston was supposed to be a large media con July 18 - 20, but it has fallen apart. Many people still have plane tickets and hotel rooms they are going to use, so there is a group of people trying to pull together a Mini-con or Relaxacon type experience at the Sheraton Back Bay. I know Paul Aldred and the NEFE crew are making phone calls, and Lisa Hertel has been following this situation as well as I have. I don't know if anyone in the 'Arisia family' wants to lend a hand, but I thought I'd just inform everyone whats going on at this point. There are Jumpcon discussions in LJ and con-news which are good starting points for finding out more. Samantha Dings From SciFiFanBoston at aol.com Wed Jul 16 16:06:32 2008 From: SciFiFanBoston at aol.com (SciFiFanBoston at aol.com) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:06:32 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on Message-ID: Thanks Samantha for posting. Yes NEFE (United Fan Con) is trying to help out the fans who have flown into the Boston area from all over for the canceled Jumpcon convention. Most had tickets that were non-refundable, so they really would be out that money if they didn't use the tickets anyway. Shane Sentner (I think that's his last name) isn't helping the fans at all, his people have folded tent and booked it. We, Paul, I, United Fan Con staff, don't even know who this fellow is, and frankly he bluffed his way all across the US. If any of you can join Paul and I as we try to pull together this quick fan-to-fan thing we'd really appreciate your help. We don't know yet if we can get any space at the Sheraton. We have contacted the good ol' Hyatt and they can give us half the ballroom for the weekend at $1000++ ... nothing has been settled yet. This may be a simple Relaxacon for those folks, or it may be something more, we are working to get in one actor, perhaps a couple more, who we know in the area. Any of you who would like to help, in any way, join us for this Fan-T0-Fan thing... contact Paul Aldred at paldred at unitedfancon.com or paldred at nefe.us or write back to me and I'll keep you abreast of what is going on. Thanks all, -Mary Dumas In a message dated 7/16/2008 3:49:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, samantha.dings at comcast.net writes: Hi folks, I know a few folks are keeping an eye on this, but I wanted to pass along a bit of stuff about this. JumpCon Boston was supposed to be a large media con July 18 - 20, but it has fallen apart. Many people still have plane tickets and hotel rooms they are going to use, so there is a group of people trying to pull together a Mini-con or Relaxacon type experience at the Sheraton Back Bay. I know Paul Aldred and the NEFE crew are making phone calls, and Lisa Hertel has been following this situation as well as I have. I don't know if anyone in the 'Arisia family' wants to lend a hand, but I thought I'd just inform everyone whats going on at this point. There are Jumpcon discussions in LJ and con-news which are good starting points for finding out more. Samantha Dings _______________________________________________ staff mailing list staff at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://arisia.org/pipermail/staff/attachments/20080716/33730055/attachment.htm From deguspice at gmail.com Wed Jul 16 16:20:44 2008 From: deguspice at gmail.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:44 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, wrote: > If any of you can join Paul and I as we try to pull together this quick > fan-to-fan thing we'd really appreciate your help. We don't know yet if we > can get any space at the Sheraton. We have contacted the good ol' Hyatt and > they can give us half the ballroom for the weekend at $1000++ ... nothing > has been settled yet. This may be a simple Relaxacon for those folks, or it > may be something more, we are working to get in one actor, perhaps a couple > more, who we know in the area. Readercon is this weekend. I wonder if they would be willing to accept these orphaned fans? (If they provide proof of Jumpcon membership, Readcon gives them a free badge?) ---Ben From SciFiFanBoston at aol.com Wed Jul 16 16:22:55 2008 From: SciFiFanBoston at aol.com (SciFiFanBoston at aol.com) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:22:55 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on Message-ID: That would be nice of Readercon, but remember most of these people are (a) not in town with their own transportation (b) not near the Burlington Mall. -Mary In a message dated 7/16/2008 4:21:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, deguspice at gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, wrote: > If any of you can join Paul and I as we try to pull together this quick > fan-to-fan thing we'd really appreciate your help. We don't know yet if we > can get any space at the Sheraton. We have contacted the good ol' Hyatt and > they can give us half the ballroom for the weekend at $1000++ ... nothing > has been settled yet. This may be a simple Relaxacon for those folks, or it > may be something more, we are working to get in one actor, perhaps a couple > more, who we know in the area. Readercon is this weekend. I wonder if they would be willing to accept these orphaned fans? (If they provide proof of Jumpcon membership, Readcon gives them a free badge?) ---Ben **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://arisia.org/pipermail/staff/attachments/20080716/6fb6101e/attachment.htm From SciFiFanBoston at aol.com Wed Jul 16 16:32:05 2008 From: SciFiFanBoston at aol.com (SciFiFanBoston at aol.com) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:32:05 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on Message-ID: Anyone (eh-hem, Skip) who has some insider knowledge about how contracts with hotels works I need a bit of advice. It seems that we cannot get room at the Sheraton because a "Certain Party" hasn't canceled from it's space yet. This is the same "Certain Party" who never told any actors that they weren't coming, just didn't send them tickets for flights. If he's holding the space for a legal reason what could that be? If he's holding it to say he didn't really cancel the convention is that the possiblity? -Mary In a message dated 7/16/2008 4:21:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, deguspice at gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, wrote: > If any of you can join Paul and I as we try to pull together this quick > fan-to-fan thing we'd really appreciate your help. We don't know yet if we > can get any space at the Sheraton. We have contacted the good ol' Hyatt and > they can give us half the ballroom for the weekend at $1000++ ... nothing > has been settled yet. This may be a simple Relaxacon for those folks, or it > may be something more, we are working to get in one actor, perhaps a couple > more, who we know in the area. Readercon is this weekend. I wonder if they would be willing to accept these orphaned fans? (If they provide proof of Jumpcon membership, Readcon gives them a free badge?) ---Ben _______________________________________________ staff mailing list staff at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://arisia.org/pipermail/staff/attachments/20080716/a2671849/attachment.htm From skipper.morris at gmail.com Wed Jul 16 16:54:37 2008 From: skipper.morris at gmail.com (Skip Morris) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:54:37 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'd say the hotel doesn't want to sell the space to someone else because then Jumpcon could claim they don't owe the hotel any cancellation penalty. /Skip On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:25 PM, wrote: > Anyone (eh-hem, Skip) who has some insider knowledge about how contracts > with hotels works I need a bit of advice. It seems that we cannot get room > at the Sheraton because a "Certain Party" hasn't canceled from it's space > yet. This is the same "Certain Party" who never told any actors that they > weren't coming, just didn't send them tickets for flights. > > If he's holding the space for a legal reason what could that be? If he's > holding it to say he didn't really cancel the convention is that the > possiblity? > > -Mary > > In a message dated 7/16/2008 4:21:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > deguspice at gmail.com writes: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, wrote: > >> If any of you can join Paul and I as we try to pull together this quick >> fan-to-fan thing we'd really appreciate your help. We don't know yet if >> we >> can get any space at the Sheraton. We have contacted the good ol' Hyatt >> and >> they can give us half the ballroom for the weekend at $1000++ ... nothing >> has been settled yet. This may be a simple Relaxacon for those folks, or >> it >> may be something more, we are working to get in one actor, perhaps a >> couple >> more, who we know in the area. > > Readercon is this weekend. I wonder if they would be willing to > accept these orphaned fans? (If they provide proof of Jumpcon > membership, Readcon gives them a free badge?) > ---Ben > _______________________________________________ > staff mailing list > staff at arisia.org > http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff > > > > > ________________________________ > Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your > area - Check out TourTracker.com! > _______________________________________________ > staff mailing list > staff at arisia.org > http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff > > From sethb at panix.com Wed Jul 16 18:32:22 2008 From: sethb at panix.com (Seth Breidbart) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:32:22 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40735.67.110.49.189.1216246306.squirrel@mail.panix.com> On Wed, July 16, 2008 3:25 pm, SciFiFanBoston at aol.com wrote: > > Anyone (eh-hem, Skip) who has some insider knowledge about how contracts > with hotels works I need a bit of advice. It seems that we cannot get > room at the Sheraton because a "Certain Party" hasn't canceled from it's > space yet. This is the same "Certain Party" who never told any actors that > they weren't coming, just didn't send them tickets for flights. I suspect he just didn't tell the hotel anything. If you want the space, talk to the hotel, let them see that he canceled (on his web site), and the hotel will likely let you have the space (after demanding payment upfront from him and not getting it). Seth From sethb at panix.com Thu Jul 17 09:39:49 2008 From: sethb at panix.com (Seth) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:39:49 -0000 Subject: [ST] Jumpcon Boston collapses, but we will go on In-Reply-To: <40735.67.110.49.189.1216246306.squirrel@mail.panix.com> (sethb@panix.com) References: <40735.67.110.49.189.1216246306.squirrel@mail.panix.com> Message-ID: <20080717133914.553A9241E5@panix5.panix.com> I wrote: > On Wed, July 16, 2008 3:25 pm, SciFiFanBoston at aol.com wrote: >> >> Anyone (eh-hem, Skip) who has some insider knowledge about how contracts >> with hotels works I need a bit of advice. It seems that we cannot get >> room at the Sheraton because a "Certain Party" hasn't canceled from it's >> space yet. This is the same "Certain Party" who never told any actors that >> they weren't coming, just didn't send them tickets for flights. > > I suspect he just didn't tell the hotel anything. If you want the space, > talk to the hotel, let them see that he canceled (on his web site), and > the hotel will likely let you have the space (after demanding payment > upfront from him and not getting it). I just had an even nastier thought. Take over his reservation for the space, use it, and let the hotel bill him. The people who have memberships in the convention just showed up and did the usual stuff, they're not responsible for the underlying contract they've never even seen. Seth From deguspice at gmail.com Fri Jul 18 15:00:31 2008 From: deguspice at gmail.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:00:31 -0000 Subject: [ST] Walkable Hyatt Message-ID: According to http://www.walkscore.com/ the Cambridge Hyatt gets a score of "Very Walkable" (75 out of 100) http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=575+Memorial+Drive%2CCambridge%2C+Massachusetts&go=Go The Marriott Hotel (our overflow hotel) gets a score of "Very Walkable" (80 out of 100) Central Square gets a score of "Walkers' Paradise" (94 out of 100) According to them the top three cities are: 1 San Francisco, CA 2 New York, NY 3 Boston, MA Perhaps we could put some of this info on our website? ---Ben From deguspice at gmail.com Sat Jul 19 11:45:00 2008 From: deguspice at gmail.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:45:00 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] Jumpcon -> Relaxacon Message-ID: In sympathy for the Jumpcon fans who no longer have a convention, UFC/NEFE has and organized a mini-con at a Back Bay Hilton, across the street from the Sheraton. (Arisia is contributing some money to the cause) It's happening today and tomorrow. The folks who were there yesterday appear to have had fun. http://community.livejournal.com/arisia/234483.html _______________________________________________ staff-announce mailing list staff-announce at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff-announce From deguspice at gmail.com Sat Jul 19 14:00:30 2008 From: deguspice at gmail.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:00:30 -0000 Subject: [ST] Flyers at Jumpcon? Message-ID: Can someone dropoff Arisia flyers at the non-Jumpcon thing this weekend? ---Ben From marvmerv at gmail.com Sat Jul 19 18:44:00 2008 From: marvmerv at gmail.com (The Marvelous MERV) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:44:00 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] Jumpcon -> Relaxacon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48826E2D.5060107@gmail.com> Benjamin Levy wrote: > In sympathy for the Jumpcon fans who no longer have a convention, > UFC/NEFE has and organized a mini-con at a Back Bay Hilton, across the > street from the Sheraton. (Arisia is contributing some money to the > cause) > > It's happening today and tomorrow. The folks who were there yesterday > appear to have had fun. > > http://community.livejournal.com/arisia/234483.html Just out of curiosity, how much money has the EBoard authorized for contribution? Thanks, -- Merv Tom Murphy The Marvelous MERV ICQ: 22396777 marvmerv at gmail.com AIM: PackApe "Have you got time to do my hair?" -- Mal to Inara, 'The Train Job,' _firefly_ "You STILL can't add my EMail addresses to commercial lists without my OK." From marvmerv at gmail.com Sun Jul 20 08:56:41 2008 From: marvmerv at gmail.com (The Marvelous MERV) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:56:41 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] Pointer Change Message-ID: <48833604.6030306@gmail.com> Announcing a pointer change: Effective immediately, please discontinue use of marvmerv at rcn.com, tmurphy71 at rcn.com, and treknologist at rcn.com. Email pointers change to marvmerv at gmail.com. Telephone number stays the same. Thank you. -- Merv Tom Murphy The Marvelous MERV ICQ: 22396777 marvmerv at gmail.com AIM: PackApe "Have you got time to do my hair?" -- Mal to Inara, 'The Train Job,' _firefly_ "You STILL can't add my EMail addresses to commercial lists without my OK." _______________________________________________ staff-announce mailing list staff-announce at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff-announce From dbs at homeport.org Mon Jul 21 10:59:23 2008 From: dbs at homeport.org (Dave Belfer-Shevett) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:59:23 -0000 Subject: [ST] State of CONGO - what's going on? Message-ID: <200807211059.36494.dbs@homeport.org> This was posted to the 'congo-chat' group, thought Arisia folks might be keen on hearing what's going on with CONGO... ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [congo-chat] State of CONGO - what's going on? Date: Monday 21 July 2008 From: Dave Belfer-Shevett To: congo-chat at yahoogroups.com This is a sort of 'state of the code' update for the CONGO general community, letting people know what's going on with the system, and where things are going. CONGO's baseline code has essentially been stable for the last year and a half. There have been minor tweaks and updates, and at least one fairly major change (switching the print routine from a custom generated graphic to an 'on the fly' PDF, which helped in printing portability and code simplicity). Two months ago I ran an event in Waltham that used CONGO for public registration and session signups using a customized public interface. It worked, handling credit card payments, registrant signup, etc, but the amount of work required to get the pages and back end service stable was daunting. There are other events wanting this functionality, I was not excited about having to customize the code for each event. CONGO v1.x is over 5 years old, and many of the assumptions and design decisions made for those first conventions have held strongly, while others have not worked out well. Rather than try to 'fix' the existing code, which would have required a tremendous amount of refactoring (CONGO is about 20,000 lines all told), a new approach was necessary. I decided to start a rewrite. Congo v2.0 is now a work in progress. Those of you on the congo-dev mailing list have been seeing commits against the new branch in SVN for the last 2 months. While I'm trying to reuse as much code as possible, much of the original material is not portable, so I'm essentially using the screens and templates from Coconut, and rewriting the back end logic. Architecture wise, here's what Congo v2.0 looks like: o 100% Java (no PHP) o Struts v2.0 based o Page rendering using JSP + Struts + JSTL o Runs in a servlet container ala Tomcat o No standalone appserver o Uses SOAP/Webservices for remote API access o MySQL back end Needless to say, this is a major overhaul of the system, but one that I feel is required. Project wise, I'm working this in a few phases... 1) Build up the basic toolset and framework for how pages and processing will work. Understand struts, proper DAO methodology, and session management. 2) Convert Coconut page for page to Struts. Don't add functionality, don't look for refactoring - just duplicate the existing application. 3) Rework the database structures to be more normalized and, frankly, sane. In particularly, registrant contact details (address / phone / etc) get reworked, and history activity completely refactored. 4) Overhaul the transactions mechanism so financial transactions are tracked properly and audit trails can be easily looked up. 5) Recreate the 'public' interface so registrants can come in on the public pages, create logins, view their event details, and purchase registrations. Make sure back end processing is modular, so interfaces like Authorize.net, Paypal, etc can all be 'plugged in' as necessary, and configured via Coconut. At this point, we should have completed the entire rewrite, including greatly enhancing internal structures and processes, and can focus on additional major features, such as... 6) Session management - and I don't mean HTTP sessions. Event managers can create session schedules and timetables, and registrants can use the public interface to sign up for sessions, print out their schedules, and pay for workshops. This was partially done for the Waltham event using Properties and custom written templates, and the users liked it a lot. It needs to be a big part of CONGO. 7) With Session management comes other possibilities, such as published schedules and marquee displays showing the current event schedules and updated news, for display at-con. 8) Better at-desk registration payment processing, allowing workstations to run credit cards and paypal transactions at the operators station, rather than relying on wireless swipe machines. --------------------------------------------- Where I am right now... Currently I'm about halfway through step #2. Logins, lookups, and edits on registrants are working, and I'm working on the event maintenance screens. It's a long process, but it's moving along at a reasonable pace. Feel free to contact me on or off-list(s) (this is going to several lists) for any further questions, details or just general chitchat). I expect it'll be another few months until Congo v2 is ready for beta testing by existing users. Those who are interested in the work in progress are welcome to sign onto the congo-dev mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/congo-dev) and keep an eye on things, or if you're interested in participating in coding, and know Java (or don't mind learning it), sign onto congo-chat (http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/congo-chat) and let us know. Thanks for everyone's support through this entire project. I think the new codebase will allow for some stellar functionality in the system, and I'm looking forward to adding a lot to the system over the next several months. -dbs ------------------------------------------------------- From meyererik at yahoo.com Wed Jul 30 14:42:32 2008 From: meyererik at yahoo.com (Erik J. Meyer) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:42:32 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] contact update Message-ID: <715172.91472.qm@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Good Afternoon Folks, ??? This is a giant spam to all the address I had listed at this old e-mail address.? Please delete this address (meyererik at yahoo.com) from your address books.? If you wish to contact me please use the one in the header (erik.j.meyer at gmail.com) .? If you do not use the e-mail in the header in an attempt to contact me consider that e-mail to have vanished into the ether that makes up the internet and that it will never ever be seen by human eyes, especially mine, until the end of the world.? Have a nice day. ?------------ ttfn Erik J. Meyer Constellation Lodge AF&AM (no, we don't have numbers) Hermann-Dexter #133 IOOF Dedham MA http://www.mychip.org/ are you a turtle? _______________________________________________ staff-announce mailing list staff-announce at arisia.org http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff-announce From SciFiFanBoston at aol.com Wed Jul 30 15:25:24 2008 From: SciFiFanBoston at aol.com (SciFiFanBoston at aol.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:25:24 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] ConnectiCon this Weekend (1/4 room available) Message-ID: Is Arisia having a presence at ConnectiCon this weekend? If so, great! If not, do we have flyers available? If so, I'm going and can take them. If someone can get them to me on Thursday. If you are going and would like to share room costs with me and two other ladies in a double/double at the Marriott let me know. -Mary Dumas **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. 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If you do not use the e-mail in the header in an attempt to contact me consider that e-mail to have vanished into the ether that makes up the internet and that it will never ever be seen by human eyes, especially mine, until the end of the world.? Have a nice day. ?------------ ttfn Erik J. Meyer Constellation Lodge AF&AM (no, we don't have numbers) Hermann-Dexter #133 IOOF Dedham MA http://www.mychip.org/ are you a turtle? From DragonMessages at aol.com Wed Jul 30 17:10:12 2008 From: DragonMessages at aol.com (DragonMessages at aol.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:10:12 -0000 Subject: [ST] [SA] ConnectiCon this Weekend (1/4 room available) Message-ID: Mary, If you are able to get flyers please pick up extras. We are vending at Connecticon and will happily hand them to our customers. How many extra --- possible a couple of hundred if they have enough. Also, we'll be at Otakon next weekend and will happily hand them out there too. Also, I'm working with Amy as the assistant Dealer Coordinator. Edward Trachtenberg The Dragon's Lair P.O. Box 809 Andover, MA 01810 _www.anddragonsohmy.com_ (http://www.anddragonsohmy.com/) We take fantasy very seriously. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://arisia.org/pipermail/staff/attachments/20080730/2c9b64c1/attachment.htm