I'd also be totally fine with a runoff date vote for the top 2 for each region, as Aimee had suggested. Thoughts?
Works for me, especially as my dates flex a bit depending on what city it is for anyway.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
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F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
victor infante - Aug 20, 2006 2:55:55 am PDT #3540 of 10002
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
SailAweigh - Aug 20, 2006 3:51:21 am PDT #3541 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Plus, for the March/April dates, one or more of them may coincide with spring break for some of the college/teaching folks. Opens up more possibilities of seeing new faces.
Pix - Aug 20, 2006 4:27:52 am PDT #3542 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Sail, yep. There are two weekends in the March/April span that would fall in my break, and I'm sure several other people have the same thing.
Theodosia - Aug 20, 2006 4:29:22 am PDT #3543 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I can manage March or April, fwiw. (I didn't get around to voting in the poll, alas.)
Sheryl - Aug 20, 2006 6:15:20 am PDT #3544 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Last weekend in March(FilkOntario) and the first weekend in April(beginning of Passover) are out for me, but other weekends in that time frame may well work.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 20, 2006 7:26:16 am PDT #3545 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My take on the dates tends to be city/temperature variable. Any time at all works for me in Boston, but the later weekends don't look so good if we end up choosing North Carolina.
DebetEsse - Aug 20, 2006 8:29:21 am PDT #3546 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
But then the question becomes which takes priority, place or date?
By voting on date first, it kinda implies that that's the priority.
I also don't really see how we would proceed to a final decision if this vote does not end in a decision? Is the location then also treated as tentative, and we have a final run-off between date/place pairs? That seems rather unwieldy to me.
Pix - Aug 20, 2006 10:14:04 am PDT #3547 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
No, the final location would determine the date. Basically we make a final decision on the dates for the two regions before city pimpage. That means when we go to vote for the final location, we're actually also voting for the final date since date/location would be linked. I'm just trying to give a little more flexibilty in the early process.
DebetEsse - Aug 20, 2006 10:23:07 am PDT #3548 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It seems like treating the date as tentative is trying to re-fight a decision that was already made in deciding what to vote on first, and, honestly, we're not that early in the process. We need to be getting things decided and reservations made.
NoiseDesign - Aug 20, 2006 10:27:46 am PDT #3549 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
But the vote only included one weekend in May and no weekends in March or April. I hardly consider it a decision that has already been made if the earlier dates weren 't even options.