Kumoricon Event Calendar
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Events on, or including, Sunday, October 25, 2009:
Using the Facilities: Q&A on Hotels and Other Venues
When: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 12:00 to 13:00
Details:
Before the Elections Meeting I (Dawn Hewitt) will host a 1 hour panel on Hotels, the OCC and related matters.
Anyone who is interested in knowing about about the "Facilities" part of Kumoricon, or wants to talk venues on the forum or present ideas, I ask that you please come and attend this panel first.
In the meantime, myself and others will be doing more research to make sure we can answer as many questions as possible.
Topics I will be covering:
- The Hilton, The Hilton and The Hilton – The only three hotels for cons larger than 2k attendees.
- The Oregon Convention Center – Why it would be so hard for us.
- Things that have shut other cons down, permanently, because they can no longer get hotel space.
- Outside parks and why we cannot rent them.
- General Meeting Space – why it sometimes takes us forever.
- Coffee – It's about $65/gallon at a hotel. No, seriously.
- Multi-venue options – If elevators fill up moving us between floors, the same thing will happen to buses between hotels.
For people who have interest in higher level positions at the con, this is also a great primer on how alot of the back-end stuff works. For us to grow we need more that more space, we need more people who will take on Manager and higher positions. We need more people who understand the ins and out of running a con.
The Annual Membership Meeting and 2010 Elections follows this presentation at 1:30 PM.
Location:
Hilton Portland and Executive Tower
921 SW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97204
Pavilion room (Plaza level)
Google Maps with aerial view
Annual Membership Meeting and 2010 Elections
When: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 13:30 to 17:00
Details:
Agenda for the Annual Meeting
Establish Quorum
Ratify previous minutes
Reports
- Facilities Liaison
- Publicity
- Relations
- Programming
- Operations
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Vice-Chair
- Chair
Unfinished Business (none)
New Business
- Elections (President, Operations, Programming, Publicity, Relations)
- Other new business (please email secretary@kumoricon.org if you have an item you'd like to present for a vote)
Good of the Order
- Suggestions for Board-Elected positions
Adjourn.
If you cannot make it to the meeting, you may designate someone as your proxy by using this form. Your proxy may use your vote however they wish, so choose with care. Also, a person can hold proxy for only two other people.
See this board for nominations and suggestions.
Preceding the meeting will be a "Hotel FAQ" led by Dawn Hewitt, at 12:00 PM. This will be a one-hour educational session about the relationships between conventions and hotels and why we do or don't do certain things. There will be a 30 minute break between this session and the meeting. The annual meeting and elections begins at 1:30 PM.
Location:
Please note the changed date for this meeting. It was moved to Sunday, October 25, from the previous date of the Saturday the day before.
Hilton Portland and Executive Tower
921 SW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97204
Pavilion room (Plaza level)
Google Maps with aerial view