This post has been up for almost a week and I have yet hear anything from the GL planning team. While the Pacific planning committee has been deligently contacting me about festival the one after this one. If the GL team doesn't post something here to get things started soon I will ask the Pacfiic planning team to move up the festival and take this one's place.
Manticore,
It had been less than four days at the time you posted this, not almost a week.
Also, irux posted in
this thread that he would be out of town on Thanksgiving weekend--i.e., about now.
Maybe the organizers weren't expecting demands for information 6 weeks in advance of the event's dates. Did the organizers even agree to these specific dates, or were the dates chosen without their input? Were the organizers told in advance when they had to announce their plans? What specific details do you think we need at this time? irux did post some preliminary info at the top of
this thread.
I know that you were in favor of having it on Pacific when the discussion first started (according to a post in the first link above), but I think it's too early to decide to move it. (And yes, I'm biased because my main shard is Great Lakes, but I would still think it's too early to move it even if that weren't the case.)
Going forward, so that the whole community is aware of how the Festivals should be produced and so that both unfair surprises to the organizers and disappointments to the attendees can be avoided, I think we need established, posted guidelines for:
1. How often there should be a Rares Festival.
2. How the shard is determined.
3. What the organizer's qualifications should be.
4. How the organizer is determined.
5. How the exact dates are determined.
6. What the organizer's duties are.
7. When the organizer needs to release details about the next Festival, and what those details should be.
Thoughts, from anyone?
I often think things like that when people ask, "Any questions?"