[HPFGU-OTChatter] Filk and Nimbus 2003

[Beth]

At 02:46 PM 2/20/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Having said all that, I will note, however, that there are a myriad
>number of good places to hang out at the Swan, including our banquet
>room with its Birds-of-a-Feather tables, at least 3 lobbies filled
>with comfy couches and chairs, and even coffee tables on which to lay
>your lyric binders, and let's not leave out attendees' hotel rooms,
>or the lounging areas at the Dolphin, at least twice as many as in
>the Swan.

One thing seems to work really well at science fiction conventions I've 
been to: Place a few portable blackboards or corkboards (LARGE) at a 
convenient, often-passed place. (Somewhere in the lobby? By registration? 
Just outside the vendor area?) Let people post in-room parties and filk 
gatherings. Then interested people can just check out the boards each night 
and wander from filk to filk, or party to party. As long as the people 
staying in the room can lock their valuables somewhere (a friend's room 
next door, for example), and are willing to toss out anyone who becomes too 
unruly (infrequent, from what I've seen), it's a great system.

bel