For the love of God please let someone in charge find this. I just came back from Ikasucon today and i intend to go to Anime Punch because of the flyers handed out. <Sim Dates, Random Battles and Free Pockey Caught my eye> but anyway... the organization there was terrible. No one knew what times things were at because the program listed the events in Alphabetical order, not by the time they were showing, creating major problems with day planning. I missed 2 events because of that. Half of the events weren't even in the program... Everything outside the Main event hall and the live showing room was not advertized at all. PLEASE make sure to make this con a good one... that nearly ruined the whole experience for me. The Live Viewing room schedule wasn't even published to public knowledge... the only schedule was in the second floor hallway where 0 cosplayers were staying. it was rediculous.

Wow, I'm glad I didn't go, then. Talk to Kaisermikeb, he's the one in charge here.

Those are some excellent points. We'll be sure to list everything in order by time in the guide. I'll also try to have write ups for everything online well in advance, and infact...

I PROMISE YOU HERE AND NOW THAT WE WILL HAVE A LIVE PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE UP BY FEBRUARY 1ST.

It won't be complete, and it might be subject to change, but we will keep you guys tuned in to everything that's going to happen with Punch.

On the note of things Ikasu didn't do as well, I will also make sure there is a schedule outside of every room, and full schedules publicly posted in several locations through-out the con. We'll also put a map in the program guide.

In all fairness though, I thought Ikasu was pretty good this year, at least by saturday afternoon.

Also, welcome to the boards, and I'm glad you'll be comming to AP06!! Please feel free to give your input on all the ideas, we usually have at least one good idea a week, but the more people who put their heads together on something, the better it can become!

A programming schedule that early? Maybe you should reconsider mike, cause posting it later will make sure that the schedule isn't as likely to change much.

What? The earlier you have a schedule the better. This way there is more time to change and modify it incase something goes awry.

I tried to get anime news network to post that, and told them that we had created two excel spreadsheets and two word documents, but... they wern't too impressed

The other thing about Ikasucon... Make sure the staff at AP knows what the hell is going on, cus I tried on numerous occasions to ask where somethign was or what was going on in such and such a room next and none of them had any clue at all. except the Karaoke DJ, but he was just Fing awesome.

perhaps some sort of briefing papers for staff? I want to have a generally well informed staff, especially of what's going on in their department, but conwide might be difficult, at least for the entire schedule!

We should definatly make sure that people know the location, know the times of the big events, (and subsiquent rules, ie 18 and over, no cameras, etc.) and anything for their room/ department.

Am I missing anything?

Well give all con staff walkie talkies. Designate them to a single channel and then they can stay informed with one another at all times.


Also. Has there been a staff list posted? I know panda and I both offered to volunteer for staff but I'd just like to know who is incharge of what.

PM or email me about staff requirements.

At this time the at-con staff have not been assigned, though we are open to volunteers. Later on we will have a better idea of what is needed where, so until that point in time we are not making any at-con assignments. There are still several pre-con jobs available, and as always staff and members alike are expected and encouraged to advertise the hell out of us!

are you going to have the shedcule printable.i alwayslike a copy to carry around.

of course!

ok.im going to my dads in a few days and im going to go to game stores and this place called anime palace and hand out fliers.i have to get more ink in my printer.*kicks printer*

Sorry mike, but if you sent me Word or Excel documents I wouldn't be impressed either. The de facto standard for electronic document dissemination is Portable Document File for a reason. Doesn't Word export to pdf? Haven't used it in forever...

Print one from your printer at the highest quality and run to Kinkos. Something like a Gloss print on 44lb stock should look pretty good, but use your best judgement.

InuGoth: Do NOT contact Anime Palace, we are in negotiations with them currently.

Trent: I didn't send them the files. I just told them to announce that we had created some files!

Oh, okay....misunderstood what you meant. Still, always try to do PDF if at all possible.