QWOC Con Questions

[jhameia]

So my Brass Lotus Society aspirations keep coming back and I really want a con that's headed by radical QWOC. I know there was Think Galactic Con but it's a book group now? I think location is a pretty big deal... when I lived in Hamilton I thought it would be easy for me to organize something, esp with the surrounding POC communities. And there's also the timesuck and energy issue, which I think is the biggest problem.... how to build a con for people exhausted by the outside world, when one is exhausted too?

Gotta think on this more. Especially since I don't have experience with con organizing.

If you do, what do you think are the biggest challenges of putting together a con?

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[februaryfour]

They build committees full of people they can trust, but they still worry and they still run themselves ragged. I've only been president of my honors society for one semester (one more to go) and it's not a huge thing on the outside, but I didn't realize just how much work went on behind the scenes just organizing a Meet-N-Greet. Next semester I get to spearhead the Meet The Firms recruiting event that is the only outlet for public accounting recruiting at our business school. I've got a subcommittee focused on this, but we may end up expanding it.

If you want to organize a con, I STRONGLY recommend volunteering on ConCom somewhere.

[jhameia]

Yeah, I was thinking about that myself (volunteering). I've done a bit of organizing as president of the drama society in my undergrad years but the rules and scale are different, afaict.