Fear the Con 3 2010
by Chad Wattler

I am cross posting this from: http://fearthecon.blogspot.com/

Usual fair warnings, I don’t know how frequent these posts are going to be and I’m not sure if I’m even going to be able to make any after this one. That’s not to say I’m not going to update this at all after this post, I just don’t know myself.

This is going to be the planning blog for Fear the Con. I’m Chad, one of the hosts of the podcast Fear the Boot. I’m also the guy who is heading up the Fear the Con 3 effort. I got into running Fear the Con with #2 but I helped with #1, abet very little. I got in on the very end of that one and attended one or two meetings and just helped set up some chairs. With Fear the Con 2 I ran the whole show. To much of the show in fact. It was pretty stressful for me and consumed a lot of my time. In the end it was all worth it. We had great fun, wonderful people and and some fantastic games. The whole con was declared by all a smashing success. Dan made a little speech at the end of it saying I was one who made it all happen. I got a rousing round of applause and a few cheers. That was a nice and much needed ego boost. :)

I had my 1st meeting with Dan, he’s the money man, and hopeful the last face to face meeting that will take place for this FtC. We talked about some ideas of what we wanted out of FtC 3 and what worked and what didn’t in 2. We also set the tentative times and talked about the secret project…. DUN! DUN! DUN! Well we have 2 secret projects planned for the con and the whole reason for keeping it on the down low is that we don’t want to disappoint if we can’t make them work. But don’t worry, I’ll reveal them if we can’t get them started.

Right now I have a lot of ideas that I need to turn into action. To do this I will use my two greatest weapons: email and the Fear the Boot forums. Communication is key because the whole con lives and dies on the action of others. I need to start listing my ideas, turning them into jobs and then assign them to the different people on the con staff. I also need to start getting the ideas from rest of the staff. This can be a hard part sometimes. On one hand, you need perspective that only other people can give and they might think of some really cool stuff or have contacts that you didn’t think of. On the other hand, people can have some really dumb ideas and it’s a real waste of time and resources to chase everyone of those ideas down.

Current Con Status: Concepts and nothing more. Time starting pulling ideas and people together and turning that into action.