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[rose]

Embrace the Chaos - a Seminar on ARGs - POSTPONED -

[HetMasteen]

I'll be in NYC, but I am currently in a delicate financial situation, so I guess it's a no show from me

However, if there are any UF social events, I'll gladly stop by .

[SpaceBass]

[HetMasteen]

[Kaiya]

Darn, there's no way I can afford to get over for then
bah

[thebruce]

Well I'm working on plans to get there... the train is pretty cheap and the station is only 2 or 3 blocks from the Elabash Recital Hall (which is right next to the Empire State Building, for those who like landmarks)

If I make it, I'll be going for the weekend - traveling on the 1st, returning on the 4th. Would love to see some sites as I've never been to NYC before. (like Times Square, Lady Liberty, etc)

Still many weeks to get plans hashed out, but it would be great to meet more people, and I'd encourage you to go if you can. It's not ARGfest, but it's the same community of people . It'll be good times! Can't wait to see the schedule and who's on the list of speakers.

[aliendial]

I can offer a firm "maybe". I just can't be sure I can be there that day. So I won't make a promise to volunteer that I'm not sure I can keep. If you still need help closer to the day I'll be in touch.

[Ruuku]

I was sad to see, that there was nothing in the source

I wish I could be there! But because I can't I want videos, okay?

[the_velociraptor]

I'm too young and short of cash to go. >_>

[Giskard]

I think rose already counts me in as a volunteer, but I'd just like to say that I will be attending the conference as well, so yay, two US trips for me this year

[rose]

Thanks for the great response everyone ! We now will have plenty of volunteers. In addition to the people who are helping to organize, produce materials and run the event: space, gupfee, scrappy, giskard, xnbomb, colin and chelec...we have bagsbee, EGo (probably) HetMasteen, theBruce (probably), Aliendial (maybe) and redkidk(probably)
Also, my son whose forum name I think is daemonsoldier(?) should be there. That may seem like a good number of people, but I've learned from ARGfest that lots of last minute questions and individual stuff comes up. Plus, things happen and people may not be able to make it at the last minute. I also planned for extra people so that people can take turns and not be stuck all day out in the lobby checking people in. We will be setting up a place for the volunteers to be able to coordinate their information.

Now, to work on getting all those paying customers. The conference will hold 150 people and I plan to work as hard as possible to sell every ticket. Help with marketing the conference is needed and appreciated.

For those of you who can't be here: this isn't to replace ARGFest. In fact, for me, the driving force behind this conference is to have money that we can then use, in part, to help support the costs of ARGFest and unfiction. We don't want to use ads to support the site, so we decided to monetize our knowledge. Our knowledge is a rare and precious commodity on the net. All the money we raise will go to support the community.

I think we are the first audience in the history of audiences (which I think is forever) to organize a conference to help developers make better content.

(I may be exaggerating - I'm sure there may have been some wealthy patrons who ran schools to improve the work of the artists who created things for them...but I'm fairly sure we are the first COMMUNITY to get together and do this. Let's hope it works. But, then we wouldn't do it if we weren't confident it will. )

Are we awesome or what?

[FLmutant]

[Rekidk]

Quick scheduling question... Approximately what time of day (and how long) will this seminar be?

[SpaceBass]

[Jas0n]

wow need something like this within a 6 hour drive from me... New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson Mississippi, Mobile Ala.. Shreveport Louisiana, Little Rock.... just some suggestions