lydamorehouse | (Reply)

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WisCon has been really struggling the last two years to get enough programming volunteers. I'm not sure if it's that attendance is down, or if it's that people are just super stressed and forget, or if people are fearing to volunteer because what if they get COVID and have to bail? So my guess is she straight up got on the panel because she volunteered for it. I was on a panel where someone came within 1/2 of a centimeter of the dreaded "I volunteered for this panel to learn more about the subject!" (I hate hearing that. If you wanted to learn more about the subject, GO TO THE PANEL. Don't VOLUNTEER FOR THE PANEL.)

Anyway if we were doing a con next year my suggestion for panel coverage would be, "close the signups, then very loudly re-open them for ONE MORE WEEK to get all the people who meant to sign up and forgot."