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Eastercon Wiki
This website aims to collate knowledge from people who have helped run the popular not-for-profit science fiction convention known as "Eastercon". It also has information for those of you wanting to attend Eastercon. -
Bidding
An article by Steve Davies about bidding to run an Eastercon or similar convention See Bid Session for the attendee/member view of this process Why do you want to do this stupid thing? If -
Black Easter
By Caroline Mullan TWP mailing 38 (August/September 1987) with introduction and coda from Banana Wings#14 (August 1999) -
Preparation
So Now What are You Going to Do With It? OK, so you've won your bid for the Eastercon. Now what are you going to do? Remember, you've just taken on a 2 -
Site
Steve Davies considers how to make best use of your convention site. This is the great smoffish black art. Give two committees the same hotel and they may come up with a completely different room -
History
See also the Fancyclopedia and Wikipedia entries This list is based on the list generated by Pat McMurray for the Memory Hole Annex. The original research for this page was done by Pat and based -
Mancunicon Readme
This is an (edited) copy of the Mancunicon (2016) readme. Obviously many details are parochical, but future con-runners might want to look for anything they've missed. Created by Flick and Alan Sullivan. In -
The Eastercon Is Not Your Bitch
First published in Banana Wings#48 (December 2011) By Caroline Mullan -
Traditions
There are no official rules and regulations for the Eastercon. However there are standard programme items and events, and standard ways of organising an Eastercon (traditions) that will be assumed to continue on from year -
Programme
The average Eastercon has around 150 to 200 events/items on the four day schedule. Programme tends to start early afternoon on Friday and continue through to late evening Monday. -
Timeline
John and Fran Dowd have supplied us with this timeline for running an Eastercon. Updates to this document may be found on the Eastercon Yahoogroups forum Change membership rates immediately following Novacon. Print new forms -
Smooth Running
Steve Davies writes about some of the things which can help make a convention run smoothly There are any number of things that help to make a convention run well. However, a lot of them -
Newsletter
Not every Eastercon has a newsletter. But it seems to run better if there is one! The newsletter contains information about programme changes, information of interest to attendees (e.g. changes to bar opening times -
At Con
Steve Davies writes an article about Opening Ceremonies, Panels, Games, Auctions, and many other things people expect at a con. Lighten up kid, it's only a con! -
Fun
Have Fun Steve Davies writes about the need to delegate and enjoy yourself when running a convention -
Registration
Registration is the area of the convention that deals with the members of the con, in particular in signing them up and in providing the various member services once they have joined. Often Registration is -
When Things Go Wrong
Steve Davies writes about what can go wrong and what you might try doing about it. Remember, things will go wrong, it’s inevitable. No matter how hard you’ve worked, no matter how much -
Pre-con
Steve Davies writes about things to do before the convention (with some additions by Alex McLintock) GRTs - or Groats or "Gopher Refreshment Tokens" are a mechanism by which volunteers are rewarded for a shift of -
Ops
Also known as Operations or The Ops Room Ops is the team that keeps the over-all convention running on the day by facilitating the various parts of the convention working together and helping members -
Website
An Eastercon, or any convention, needs to have a way of communicating with existing members, prospective members and anyone else who might be interested (the Press, fannish websites, travel organisations and so on). In general -
Think About
Steve Davies writes some more things to think about See Badges -
Dealers Room
Also known as the Huckster Room in the US. One or more rooms where dealers (professional, semi-professional or fans) can rent one or more tables and sell stuff. It is not a room for -
Guests
A Guest is a person specially invited by the convention committee to appear on programme items and talk to the convention attendees. For that they will usually have their expenses covered (travel, membership fee, possibly -
Gophers
Gophers are the essential volunteers at the convention. They "go for" drinks (hence the name "gopher"), move chairs, check badges and generally do a lot of the important volunteer work at the con. Eastercon is -
Bid Session
The Bid Session (or bidding session) is held usually on the Sunday morning, late enough for people to have had breakfast but early enough that the winning committee has time to sell memberships Sunday afternoon
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