The invitation email for potential program participants for Arisia 2011 was sent out on Friday August 6th. Some individuals who requested invites were not included in the original mass email. This includes mainly individual presenters and panelists. We will be contacting them individually by end of day Wednesday, August 11th. After August 8th, 2010, people requesting to be participants will be reviewed on a case by case basis as time and resources allow. If you desire to be a participant, you may contact us directly at [email protected].

The deadline for submitting ideas to the Brainstorm list is midnight this Thursday July 15th, 2010.

Though the list will be closed at that point, emails to [email protected] and [email protected] will still be received and items sent to those addresses will be evaluated on a case by case basis. Thank you one and all for the great ideas put forth so far. Keep them coming.

Michael J. Sprague
Division Head of Programming
Arisia 2011

The next ARISIA CONCOM meeting will be held this Saturday, April 24th, at 2:00pm at the Westin Boston Waterfront in the Douglas room on the Mezzanine level. The current agenda includes the introductions of the Division Heads appointed so far and a discussion of space allocation in the new hotel.

In addition, Saturday at 12:00pm (noon), previous to the meeting, there will be a guided tour of many of the function room spaces led by one of our contacts at the hotel. Due to a concurrent event not all of the function space is available, but several rooms will be. Seeing the spaces is good information (or refresher) for the space discussion to occur at the meeting, so everyone is encouraged to show up for the tour as well.

ConChair office hours will be held Saturday at 4:00pm, after the meeting. Please see http://2011.arisia.org/ for more information on ConChair office hours.

Attendees are encouraged to use public transportation - the "World Trade Center" stop on the Silver Line is directly next to the hotel. Pay parking is available at the hotel.

With many of the Div Heads now appointed, Saturday's meeting is a great time to jump in if you don't have a "job" for Arisia '11 yet. Plus there will be a raffle with prizes donated by our Writer GoH Kelley Armstrong and Webcomic GoH Shaenon Garrity!

From Mike, the Brainstorm list moderator:

Welcome to the Brainstorm mailing list for Arisia 2011.
Sign up: http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/brainstorm

This list is for the submission and discussion of Programming and Event ideas for the upcoming Arisia convention. To submit an idea we will be using the following format:

Send email to: brainstorm at arisia.org

Subject: Title of panel/event/lecture/item