Thank you AllyKat, Rem, and BigGuy for responding. I debated about posting this in a public location. I think my biggest reason was just that this has been the same every year. Every year I complain, every year I am assured it will get better, and every year it happens again.
Believe me when I say that I do, do my best to support KCon. My interests in the Con are different than many, and being staff, frankly, conflicts with why I attend. I don't want to be restricted and tied down during the con, I go to have fun! As it is, my wife is running two panels this year and has asked me to help her out with them so I am, in small part, actively participating. I have also been, more or less, trying to keep TUNAC alive here in Eugene. All efforts to keep any kind of club going at UofO have failed, but I have been running my Anime Friday, out of my home, every Friday now for five years. My problem has been the exact opposite of yours. I do everything I can think of to promote Anime Friday and my attendance is dismal. I tried changing the way I run it numerous times, and now I pretty much have it set up that if you show up YOU can determine what it is you want to do. Watch anime, talk cosplay, copy AVI and MKV files, pic my wife's brain about Photoshop, Illustrator, or Wild Ginger. Eat popcorn.
Maybe what drove me to write this rant was a bit of jealousy and frustration. I try so hard to get people to continue coming to anime related events in Eugene, and I see all those who started the whole thing working to keep KCon going in Portland. I am a Networking student and already a webmaster for a different website. I know that it isn't difficult to put stuff on the site. I guess my biggest issue was why isn't there anything on the site. also why is some of the available stuff over two years old? There isn't anything from the last two cons for down-loadable content, and I already commented in a different thread about the picture gallery. Having taken a course in website design as a requirement for my degree, I just cringe when I go to the site. Not because of the sites design, or navigation, but because it fails to do what it is designed to do, which is inform the visitor about what is happening at KCon. This isn't the fault of any one individual. It is because of the "red tape" created from having to get the green light, and contract signings, and confirmations, and in some cases just keeping things "close to the chest". I understand the reasons, AllyKat did a great job of explaining them and keeping a cool and non-aggressive and argumentative voice to the post. I just think that maybe you are fighting against your own best interest here. You have to give the fans something. Maybe, at this point, the question is, what can we tell the fans? Can we post that? Get the info out on the site, drive the interest, feed the monster! Get the KCon fever going crazy for more!
Thanks for confirming Tiffany Grant. Any news on any other GOH's? It seems to me that we have one GOH who has attended almost every year, but no mention of him this year. Any local GOH's attending? Any info on confirmed Exhibitors, either dealers or artists? TBA isn't something I want to see one month from con. I know you are having a meeting this weekend. I am actually waffling about driving up to go to it. The last two I attended here in Eugene were so short and didn't really allow much in the way of non-staff input. (my understanding, I may have been wrong) I question that even if I show up, what can I do?
"Is there any new business?"
"Yes, put content on the website."
"Terry, your not a staff member, you can't add new business, anyone else have any new business?" (or something like that)
