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Aug. 12th, 2006 11:01 amSo right about now I should be leaving for Pi-Con if I were to make it to the panels I'm scheduled for. But instead I'm sitting around the apartment in work clothes and trying to decide if I feel in the mood to pull a transmission or not.
Why? Because I officially bowed out of the con yesterday.
Why? Because I was told in the midst of a rather vitreolic email from a member of the concom that if I didn't support their con to not come.
Sadly, the email I wrote to the members of the concom I had addresses for my email program burped on, and while it went out a copy didn't make it into my sent folder. Which is a shame, because I wanted to at least post parts of it here, as it had some bits that I thought went a good deal towards explaining that one could think something was going to fail and still try ones best to do their part as well as possible.
I have not said much on this here, because I haven't wanted to besemerch a con which hadn't even started yet. But for the last couple weeks I have been increasingly frustrated and/or pissed by the pi-con concom for a variety of reasons. I kept having things happen to me regarding it, or seen other stuff that made it look like the con was going to fail and fail badly. And I didn't pull out, and I didn't post about it here, and I was doing my best to prep for my panels. Why? Because even if the con was going to fail, I had commited to my part of it, so I was going to do that part as best I could.
But I was told essentially that that wasn't good enough, that if I didn't support the con (and apparently that wasn't support enough) that I shouldn't go. So, I took his advice (which was in the same email as his calling me and an SO 'crappy') and bowed out of the con.
I wanted to feel self righteous and like I escaped the sinking ship. But I don't, because I wanted to help, I wanted to do my little bit. I wanted to be proved completely and totally wrong in every regard as to the success of pi-con. And I feel like that chance I had, that chance to *help* them prove me horribly wrong has been taken from me. because apparently that isn't good enough.
Why? Because I officially bowed out of the con yesterday.
Why? Because I was told in the midst of a rather vitreolic email from a member of the concom that if I didn't support their con to not come.
Sadly, the email I wrote to the members of the concom I had addresses for my email program burped on, and while it went out a copy didn't make it into my sent folder. Which is a shame, because I wanted to at least post parts of it here, as it had some bits that I thought went a good deal towards explaining that one could think something was going to fail and still try ones best to do their part as well as possible.
I have not said much on this here, because I haven't wanted to besemerch a con which hadn't even started yet. But for the last couple weeks I have been increasingly frustrated and/or pissed by the pi-con concom for a variety of reasons. I kept having things happen to me regarding it, or seen other stuff that made it look like the con was going to fail and fail badly. And I didn't pull out, and I didn't post about it here, and I was doing my best to prep for my panels. Why? Because even if the con was going to fail, I had commited to my part of it, so I was going to do that part as best I could.
But I was told essentially that that wasn't good enough, that if I didn't support the con (and apparently that wasn't support enough) that I shouldn't go. So, I took his advice (which was in the same email as his calling me and an SO 'crappy') and bowed out of the con.
I wanted to feel self righteous and like I escaped the sinking ship. But I don't, because I wanted to help, I wanted to do my little bit. I wanted to be proved completely and totally wrong in every regard as to the success of pi-con. And I feel like that chance I had, that chance to *help* them prove me horribly wrong has been taken from me. because apparently that isn't good enough.
