{"id":1109,"date":"2014-03-01T21:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furry.asinglelion.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2014-03-01T21:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:31:39","slug":"the-convention-meta-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"The Convention Meta Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to plan out the rest f my convention panning for 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next will be Furlandia in May. This is questionable because I have not heard about any planning meetings, furthermore it already February and still no registration.<\/span><\/p>\n

July 4th<\/span><\/sup>, this depends on\u00a0 where I am if I am\u00a0 Tacoma I may do a day overnight\u00a0\u00a0 trip to\u00a0 Everfree NW the Brony Convention or stay home and go to Gearcon \u00a0or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0September \u00a0\u00a0Kumoricon , Rose\u00a0 City Comic Con \u00a0and perhaps\u00a0 Rainfurrest if\u00a0 Furlandia falls \u00a0through.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

November: I will attend Orycon.<\/span><\/p>\n

December \u2013 January:\u00a0 Newcon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Panels <\/span><\/p>\n

Kumoricon:\u00a0 Otaku over 25 and Furry 101 <\/span><\/p>\n

Newcon redo on Stuff your pod and some idea for a Science Fiction panel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Post 2<\/span><\/p>\n

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I been thinking a lot about going to the conventions and wonder is really necessary to attend so many out of region furry conventions.\u00a0 For most fur cons it the same panels and often the same people attending. I see attending one closes to one home but I cannot see spending thousands annually to go to multiple cons a year. \u00a0It is a lot to pay just to socialize<\/span><\/p>\n

One issue is the structure of fur conventions being mostly local and staying I one location.\u00a0 I think furry conventions should structure furry conventions like many science fiction conventions. At the lowest level you have local conventions. The next level up is regionals\u00a0\u00a0 like Westercon and finally there is The World Science Faction convention. \u00a0Like Regionals and WorldCon, the organizers of\u00a0\u00a0 furry regionals and furry worldcon will hold the conventions in different cities; the location is decide by interested cities submitting bids a, and voted on by members of the current year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of attendance, one common complaint at feedback sessions is that there not enough to do at the convention or fury or anime conventions are very expensive place to socialize or there is nothing to do. As I see it, a vast majority of con goers must come to conventions just to socialize because of the low attendance in the video and panel rooms. Except for a few events I say I never seen no more that less than 1% to perhaps 3% at most panels. Even at Kumoricon most events are rarely\u00a0\u00a0 get over 10% of total attendance, so where is the other 90%?\u00a0 The low ratio between panel attendance and general attendance is true across the board at Fury, Steam Punk, Science Fiction and Anime convections attended.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest later <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to plan out the rest f my convention panning for 2014. Next will be Furlandia in May. This is questionable because I have not heard about any planning meetings, furthermore it already February and still no registration. July 4th, this depends on\u00a0 where I am if I am\u00a0 Tacoma I may do a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-furry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}