At BASFA this evening it was announced that Further Confusion, San Jose’s annual Furry fan convention, is in desperate need of a committee. The convention is all ready to roll. It has a hotel and members and the like, but no one to actually run it. What, I wonder, can we do about this?
One possibility is that we could launch TAFF, the Trufen are Furries Fund. This would raise money to bring Trufen from around the world to San Jose so that they could reveal their true colors and run a furry convention.
Then it occurred to me that we have a fabulous piece of synchronicity. In the UK there is a convention committee that had to give up because it had a crap hotel and not enough members. Here in San Jose we have a convention with an excellent hotel that is already booked out with eager convention members (some coming from as far away as Sweden). All it needs is a committee to run it. So if someone in the UK can see to putting the Convoy committee on a plane to California in January, we have a convention that they can run.
You’ve lost me – what’s a furry fan?
As the Wikipedia entry states, “Furry fandom is an artistic and literary genre related to the hybridization of humans and (other) animals, combining traits and characteristics, specifically in cartoons and comics.”
The Bay Area has a largish furry-fandom convention, Further Confusion, in January.
Ah, synchronicity.
I believe these would count as smoffish mash-ups.
The possibilities are endless…
Umm…
I believe the issue is that no one has stepped up to chair the 2008 convention; this is a crisis for the 2007 convention since the committee announcement for 2008, as well as membership presales, are supposed to occur in Jan 2007.
The convention is, indeed, very popular with an international membership. I hope they can find a con-chair in time…
2007 is actually taken care of, it’s 2008 for which a committee is needed. But that just means the Eastercon committee would have an extra six months to come up to speed with it, rather than having to run a con six months earlier than they were planning.
Of course, the Ahwanheecon committee could take it over…
Maybe a partnership with O’Reilly Media. You can only pitch your Web 2.0 startup if you’re wearing cat ears, a midi-blouse, and a tail.
Just when I think I know it all…lol. Thanks Kevin. I should learn to rely on Wikipedia.