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Zombie Ducks Want Your Brains
The Dead Duck panel is the final panel of the con where the con comm takes your feedback on the good and the bad of CON.TXT 2014. If you missed the Dead Duck or if you've thought of something you wanted to say to us since 4 pm, we would love to hear from you now! You're welcome to comment here (anonymous commenting is turned on if you want it) or to email us at info@con-txt.net.
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Recommendations:
- have 55 minute panels. That would give people a few minutes to switch rooms, go to the restroom, get water, answer their phone etc. Quite a few panels went over a bit, so that would be less of a problem if the starting goal was 55 minutes instead of 60.
- didn't seem to be a clearly identified, findable place to put money for the swap table items (if there was, I couldn't see it).
- Hawthorne panel room was consistently too hot. This was worst on Friday, not so bad the other days but the room was fairly small so if you closed the door to eliminate the noise from the hall the heat built up quickly.
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Guidelines for panel mods
(Anonymous) 2014-06-16 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Guidelines for panel mods
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(Anonymous) 2014-06-18 01:13 am (UTC)(link)I second two thoughts from above, I agree that 5 minutes between panels would be nice (but hard to schedule!) and I do think that a few longer panel sessions would be great, esp for meta topics. I felt like we could have benefited from more conversation in a few of the meta panels I attended. I would also have played Fannish Pictionary for much longer - that was a super fun panel!
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(Anonymous) 2014-06-19 03:13 am (UTC)(link)no subject
As for panels, as always, please suggest them!
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(Anonymous) 2014-06-19 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)- more fruit at breakfast: the stuff that was there was delicious, but there wasn't much of it in comparison to all the bread products and protein. maybe some bananas and/or grapefruits would go over well in future?
- a specific suggestion in relation to advice to give mods: in a perfect world, everybody attending a panel, including the mod(s), is comfortable with the direction the conversation takes - and sometimes it's useful to check in with the group about whether or not the conversation has already gone to a bad place (or just might be heading there). thus my suggestion: if a mod is feeling uncomfortable about a turn their panel seems to be taking and doesn't see their unease reflected in the group, rather than pre-emptively shutting down that conversation entirely, I suggest what I call a group gut check or check-in. to do this, the mod tells the panel attendees what had been making them uneasy and asks whether anybody else in the audience had been feeling the same and whether the people having the discussion that had caused the unease can provide reassurance on the subject. then, if reassurance can be had, the conversation continues. the benefits are fourfold: potentially interesting/innocuous discussion doesn't get shut down out of hand; audience members who might not have felt okay speaking up to either support the mod or the conversation all feel heard; the conversation has a chance to be deepened as a result of the mod's checking in; and everybody involved is reminded of the value of speaking with care and compassion.
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