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Subject:Re: The Business of Conferences From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:04:25 -0800 (PST)
In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com (Bruce Byfield) writes:
>"Carnall, Jane" wrote:
>|
>| GoH at science fiction cons are paid travelling expenses, their hotel costs
>| while they attend (and often for a grace period around the convention,
>| particularly if they're flying transatlantic), and usually their meals are
>| included in with the hotel room.
>
>Sorry - I should have mentioned this. In addition, anyone who
>participates on panels gets a free membership.
>
For a vast majority of conventions, including all worldcons
except those held in one particular city, this is *not* true.
Program participants generally do not get a free membership.
If worldcon makes money, they are often reimbursed their
membership fees, but that's not guaranteed.
>| convention can afford. GoHs who want to be paid for attending are simply not
>| invited: their choice.
A distinction should be made between a GoH (Guest of Honor),
who is indeed reimbursed because he or she is the invited
guest of the convention (and as I said, this is limited to
only 2 or 3 guests) and sommeone who participates in
programming.
> A bit of an over-generalization. After Ellison took his stance, several
> conventions did meet his request. But, of course, Ellison is an
> experienced and vastly entertaining speaker, so he is in a much better
> position to negotiate than the average guest.
I would very much like to know what non-media SF conventions
paid to have Harlan speak. You can send this info to me
privately.
As a matter of fact, I suspect this whole discussion of
SF conventions is now wildly off topic and should be
discussed privately :->
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