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.

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[utopos.livejournal.com]

Maybe a database of members of previous cons (or even better - other cons) who have filled out a fandom knowledge/coverage questionnaire would be a way to go.

Maybe the kind of questionnaire that should be given out at a Swancon membership stand at a Waicon, perhaps?