I programmed a convention!
Jun. 1st, 2013 12:45 pmI mean, not by myself. And I'm not convinced I've done a great job, although I'm also telling myself that it's not my fault people forget they have work commitments until after the schedule has been finalised and the panel can't be moved again.
Anyway, I made a program. Me. Not just me. But it's the only fanwork I've produced all year, barring a couple of sketches, so I'm proud.
Things I've learned:
- a 50/50 gender split is a lot easier to achieve in theory. Especially if you're dealing with a small con with a tiny pool of potential participants, and you can't actually force people to be on panels. So there are quite a few all-male panels (also a lot of all-female panels), but there are, at least, very few with only one woman;
- related: men are a lot more upfront and enthusiastic about volunteering than women;
- if you have a panel on religion in genre and the SF community, and the only people who volunteer for it are atheists, it's okay to put that off until next year;
- for some reason no one wanted to be on a panel called Time, Space and the Feminine Mystique (about women in Doctor Who and its fandom), and nor did they jump at a panel on space fashion. THOSE WERE MY FAVOURITES, GUYS.
The convention is a week away, and we seem to have hit an odd point in the process where people say, "This needs to be done!" and I think, "Gosh, I'd better get onto that," and then I find out that someone else thinks it's their job. But I'm pretty sure my part's not over? I don't know.
I should probably go off and find something intelligent to say about Racebending and [race]face in the 21st Century, since I'm on that with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yiduiqie and N. K. Jemisin, and they're both really smart and stuff.
Anyway, I made a program. Me. Not just me. But it's the only fanwork I've produced all year, barring a couple of sketches, so I'm proud.
Things I've learned:
- a 50/50 gender split is a lot easier to achieve in theory. Especially if you're dealing with a small con with a tiny pool of potential participants, and you can't actually force people to be on panels. So there are quite a few all-male panels (also a lot of all-female panels), but there are, at least, very few with only one woman;
- related: men are a lot more upfront and enthusiastic about volunteering than women;
- if you have a panel on religion in genre and the SF community, and the only people who volunteer for it are atheists, it's okay to put that off until next year;
- for some reason no one wanted to be on a panel called Time, Space and the Feminine Mystique (about women in Doctor Who and its fandom), and nor did they jump at a panel on space fashion. THOSE WERE MY FAVOURITES, GUYS.
The convention is a week away, and we seem to have hit an odd point in the process where people say, "This needs to be done!" and I think, "Gosh, I'd better get onto that," and then I find out that someone else thinks it's their job. But I'm pretty sure my part's not over? I don't know.
I should probably go off and find something intelligent to say about Racebending and [race]face in the 21st Century, since I'm on that with
yiduiqie and N. K. Jemisin, and they're both really smart and stuff.
