'Heart Of Gold'
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: San Francisco, May 19-21, 2006! Everything else, go here! Swag!
I think that's a great suggestion, Nicole (about the headcount poll); I'd thought the same thing WRT New Orleans.
Heh, I think the people who'd be saddest about the no/little internet access would be the peeps not attending who wait for updates and photos. I say from experience.
Love the idea of a rented out place if we can swing it. I'm so starting to save my pennies. Last time I was on the West Coast, I was fourteen. Too long.
Otherwise.... Hell, I'm planning on attending right now. I was planning on attending NO early on.
Ditto.
Honestly, I'm not sure how much city choice is going to affect attendance. The past 4 hotels have all hovered around $100/night. Airfare is almost too variable to include as a data point. Food/liquor will be as cheap as possible.
I don't really know what my point is. Just sharing thoughts.
Deb, that sounds fab.
Heh, I think the people who'd be saddest about the no/little internet access would be the peeps not attending who wait for updates and photos. I say from experience.
Yeah, my first F2F was DC. And I wasn't there. But I felt like I almost was, the F2F thread was a-hoppin' so much with accounts and pictures and it made me feel almost a part of it. With NOLA, not so much. Which was in a way a good thing for me since I was really busy with my thesis and all, but I still missed the craziness of last year.
I think the reason that no internet access was such a common complaint this year is that it had been promised, and then turned out not to exist. If we knew in advance that the hotel wouldn't have wireless (or would only have dial-up, etc etc), I think we could deal with it
I disagree, strongly. If people want pictures posted during the festivities, we need broadband, for example.
Would anyone disagree with a poll (after dates and cities have been locked in, of course) to find out how many people are planning on attending?
Because of the way the city voting will be set up (Hell yes, I'll go there; Sure, why not; Nope), we should have a tentative, but not baseless, count from the start. The poll-right-before-drop-dead may be useful, but that would depend on the arrangement we have with the hotel, IMO.
Are we going to vote city first or date first? Because at this point, date is more of a deciding factor than city for me.
That does sound great, Deb. Very curious about what the flat rate might turn out to be.
That place looks a bit like DS9.
Oh, that is too cool, Jessica.