Just Pointing Out...

[cheshirenoir]

The last few cons have had a programme made almost entirely by suggestions submitted by the public, with the panels that appeared being almost exclusively the ones where volunteers being on them.

Yes, we could probably change the ratios, but we need more volunteers. This does not mean the same old tired people on more panels. That is a path that leads only to darkness.

So if you don't like the makeup of the programme, go round up more volunteers and make them volunteer! Stack the deck. Spoil the programmer for choice. Then (and only then) can you bitch that *insert fanboi preference of the week* doesn't happen enough in the programme.

Comments

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy. They will almost never come to you. I think we need a big database of people willing to be panelists and what they know about, so that programmers can just scan through it and find people to ask. Oh how I would've loved such a thing back in 2006 :)

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

(which is not to say we should rely on the same old people being on panels every year, but it's useful to at least know who those people are - something which isn't always the case)