Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Second Language Creation Conference - Pre-pre-registration!

On 4/28/06, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> I hereby declare that there WILL be a LCC next year or (worst case)
> the year after. I don't know when or where yet, but I'm saying there
> will be one, so there will. (Hopefully this statement has a little
> more weight to it now that I've demonstrated some ability to pull it
> off once...)
>
> I want you to start thinking about it NOW!
>
> Email me with the following info:
>
> * What physical area you would be able to attend (e.g.: Bay Area, East
> Coast, West Coast, Anywhere US, Anywhere Europe, ...)
Anywhere in the U.S. or Canada should be fine if the date
if firm far enough in advance, at least if it's long enough (2
or 2.5 days) to make it worth flying to the midwest or west
coast (I'm near Atlanta).  Anywhere in the southeast
should be fine for a 1-day event.  For me vacation days are
more of an issue than money.

> * What year(s) you could attend ('07 or '08)
My vacation days are liable to be tighter in '07 than
'08 since I'm hoping to go to both the World SF Convention
and the World Esperanto Convention in Yokohama.
If I can do that I'll need all my vacation and some more
borrowed, and won't do anything else.  '08 should be
fine as far as I know.

> * What month(s) you could attend
Any, if I know about the convention date far enough in
advance (6 months or more is good).

> * How many days long you'd want (1, 2, or 3)
Two or three days would be better, assuming enough speakers
to fill out the program.  With a longer program you
could give the same speakers more time and give
longer breaks between presentations, which helps
ensure things run on time; the conventions I've
attended and organized with 1-hour program items
and 15 or 30 minute breaks were more on time
than those with theoretically 50 minute program
items and 10-minute breaks, where speakers
almost always use the full hour and leave no break
time or even run into the next speaker's time.

> * What topics, format, people, or etc you'd like to see (different
> from this year's)
Since I missed this year's (vacation days budget too tight,
not enough advance warning), I wouldn't mind seeing a
repeat of this year's.

> * How much money you could contribute, and/or how much money you'd
> require in reimbursements for YOU to talk at it
Probably $0 in both cases...

> * How many people you could bring with you
None, if distant from Atlanta.   If in Atlanta or Athens,
probably several Esperanto speakers who have a
mild to moderate interest in other constructed languages
but wouldn't spend any travel money for such a
conference.

> Most importantly:
> **** What topics YOU can talk about
If I can come I'll probably give
a talk about gjâ-zym-byn and my experiences developing
it, becoming reasonably fluent in it, and using it.

> **** Whether YOU can help organize it by:
>  * providing financing (on the order of $800-1500)
>  * doing backend organization (i.e. venue, food, financing, tech,
> permits, etc - everything OTHER than getting the program & people to
> show up)
I have the experience to do that, and I would like to help,
but this far out I hesitate to definitely volunteer.  I'm doing
the same kind of work for the Esperanto League for
North America, helping local groups that organize each year's
convention; this year it seems almost another full-time job.

I wonder if it might make sense to combine this conlangs
conference and the Esperanto League convention?  Or
the Lojban group's Logfest?  There might be cost benefits
in sharing space, as well as cross-fertilization between
groups with similar/overlapping interests, etc.


> I'm totally willing to do the frontend organization, but I won't be
> able to do the backend. I'll be putting online a pretty detailed
> accounting of what I did and how here at Berkeley (including the
> various documents, applications, budget, etc etc) that you're welcome
> to copy from for doing backend stuff. It's really not that hard, and
> should be easier still when you get to copy what I did.
I have a similar document (about 70k) in Esperanto about
organizing the Esperanto League convention.  I've been working
(off and on)  on an English abridgement of it.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.esperanto-atlanta.org

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