Announcing Convention Alley!

[Sheryll Townsend]

Greetings from the Convention Alley Planning
Committee!

We are pleased to announce that HPforGrownups has
agreed to sponsor our event, to be held at the
University of Ottawa from July 30 - Aug 1, 2004. This
means that we will, via various HPFGU lists, be able
to keep you up-to-date on all the news on our upcoming
conference.

Our vision for this conference is to have as many of
our presenters as possible drawn from the HP fandom as 
opposed to distributing our CFP mainly to academia. It 
is the continued quality of discussion on the HPFGU lists 
that makes us believe this is possible.

We are in the process of setting up a website and will
let you know as soon as it is up and running. Our Call
for Papers (CFP) will be released very soon. In the
meantime, feel free to ask any questions you may have
at our LiveJournal
(http://www.livejournal.com/community/conventionalley/)
or on the HPFGU-Convention list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Convention/).

Those of you wishing to help plan the event can
volunteer by indicating your interest in either one of
the above locations and one of our Planning Committee
members will contact you as soon as possible.
Volunteers are welcome in all areas including, but not
limited to: art, games room, sponsorship, decorations,
finance, legal, security, logistics, registration,
vendor marketplace, programme, public relations and
social programming. Help us make this the best event
possible.

We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa next summer to
help us celebrate Harry's birthday!

Sheryll Townsend
Chair
Convention Alley Planning Committee