The final panels are in progress now and I have retreated upstairs to get some work done. Overall the con has gone rather better than I expected. Much of fandom still doesn’t understand marketing, or indeed the need for it, so a SMOFcon supposedly focused on that topic had lots of potential for disaster. There have been some bad panels. I was really looking forward to the one on how to tell whether your marketing was successful or not, but when three of the four panelists had begun by saying that they intended to talk about how to tell whether the convention had been successful it was clear that the panel was totally hijacked and I walked out. Other sessions, however, were a lot better. And there were a lot of conrunners there who were clearly not the traditional deeply conservative fannish Worldcon types. There is hope for SF conventions yet, I think.

Besides, the food was good. You may recall some time back I did some scouting around Logan and said I was eager to try Dine Boston. Well Kevin and I went last night, along with Jim and Sandra. The food was fabulous. We are probably going back tonight.