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After my experience with the convention I used to work with (that shall not be named), I was expecting to be running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the last week or two, then be constantly busy with doing stuff during the con.
Apparently, if you're not a micro-managing control freak, and you trust your department chiefs to a) be competent and b) get shit done, it's a lot easier.
My tech ops chair has 17 years of experience at Dragon Con. All I know about tech ops is that it's important and involves a/v and making sure things work right. At the post-con imbibing of scotch, there was a mutual "you're awesome!" "NO U!!" going on. My security chief has about 5 years of experience at Dragon Con, and she asked me something a few months ago about security, then made a team (from Dragon Con people).
I am really good at big-picture stuff, organization, timelines, to-do-lists, spreadsheets, and that sort of thing. I have a result that I want, and I'm not extremely fussed about the steps taken to get the result (as long as it doesn't result in shoddiness). I'm a compulsive planner, but I tend to get bored at the point of execution.
It's weird: I always thought I was kind of a control freak (or have been called that), but what it really is is that I like organizing things. A lot. (I'm an ESTJ.)
Apparently, if you're not a micro-managing control freak, and you trust your department chiefs to a) be competent and b) get shit done, it's a lot easier.
My tech ops chair has 17 years of experience at Dragon Con. All I know about tech ops is that it's important and involves a/v and making sure things work right. At the post-con imbibing of scotch, there was a mutual "you're awesome!" "NO U!!" going on. My security chief has about 5 years of experience at Dragon Con, and she asked me something a few months ago about security, then made a team (from Dragon Con people).
I am really good at big-picture stuff, organization, timelines, to-do-lists, spreadsheets, and that sort of thing. I have a result that I want, and I'm not extremely fussed about the steps taken to get the result (as long as it doesn't result in shoddiness). I'm a compulsive planner, but I tend to get bored at the point of execution.
It's weird: I always thought I was kind of a control freak (or have been called that), but what it really is is that I like organizing things. A lot. (I'm an ESTJ.)
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Date: 2014-06-03 01:29 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-06-03 01:36 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-06-03 03:25 pm (UTC)From:Sounds like you did it right, delegated as much as possible, and had good people you could trust with it.
Now go do the post-mortem, find out what didn't go right, and fix it for next year. :)
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Date: 2014-06-03 06:58 pm (UTC)From:We haven't decided if we're doing this again next year (half the staff is leaving the country for 2 weeks), and we'll reconvene in July. We'll *probably* do it again, but we're recovering and going on vacay. I braindumped a lot of stuff to Ben on the drive home (in part so I could stay awake), in addition to a few notes I made before I got in the car, while everything was fresh in my mind. (I did mention the compulsive planner part.)
The feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive (like this video and all of tumblr), and I am extremely proud to have been part of making this happen for people. Something I helped create made people this happy. (Though there's no way we can top the serendipity of Rob Kazinsky being in town and dropping by. We don't have money for actor fees.)
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Date: 2014-06-04 03:05 am (UTC)From: