Musecon Is Coming

[beamjockey]

Musecon will be formally announced this weekend at Capricon. Some Chicago-area science fiction fans are organizing a new kind of convention for "artists, musicians, inventors, gadgeteers, makers, tinkerers, and other creative people."

If you're at Capricon, check out the Musecon party to learn more. If you're not, visit the Musecon site at http://www.musecon.org/.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

OK, apparently you do know something I don't; I just saw a post on a mailing list announcing that there is in fact to be one in 2010, and giving the secret link: http://www.musecon.org/index0.html.

Unfortunately, it's the one in the year 100002011 that has SJ Tucker scheduled.

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

The first MuseCon *is* in 2011. August 2010 is too close to pull off a full-size, real con, and is more of a "planning" meeting (and will be very small), where the Concom can get people together who will be interested in helping run and do programming for MuseCon 1 (and, incidentally, seeing how the hotel is and testing out the infrastructure and working out the bugs before doing it for real in public - we don't want the man behind the curtain to be noticable :-). As such, there will be some limited "sample" programming, and a lot of discussion/brainstorming/planning for what will be done for MuseCon 1 - all of this in a relaxed atmosphere, without the pressure of trying to plan things for a gazillion people to do.

The "secret" link was not really for wide public dissemination.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

We did that for ConamaZoo -- we called it "Protocon." Good idea. We learned a lot during that shakedown cruise.

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I look at 2010 as MuseCon builders' trials, pointing out where adjustments need to be made. The core group of people are all individually talented, and have worked various positions on other concoms (from chair on down to gopher), but this is the first time we (as a group) have tried to launch a new con - we really want to do it right.