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by AMS Committee

Right guys I need two people to organise the Anime Quiz for this coming Friday. What will be needed is to look up the questions, make several rounds, a picture round and an AMV round - picking like two amvs and the people have to name as many as then see. Need this done by Wednesday, email it to ams(a)redbrick.dcu.ie We will have it printed out then and lots of copies.. So - who wants to help? John -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

18 years, 10 months

EirtaKon

by cult＠redbrick.dcu.ie

Hi all, The date for the convention is fast approaching and we'd like to find out who is available on what days over the weekend of the convention (11th-13th ;) ). Please email back to ams(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with the subject header [Eirtakon-Staff]. Thanks, Ross Duggan. -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

18 years, 10 months

40 days mark

by AMS Committee

Right we have hit the 40 days mark! Anyone wanting to submit questions for the pub quiz, both, can email them to eirtakon.quiz(a)gmail.com. Also if everyone can confirm that they will indeed be helping out at the convention.. John -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

18 years, 11 months

[isaacada1@yahoo.com: [ACML] Bibliography of Con Resources]

by AMS Committee

Right guys! We are coming up on the two month mark and everything is coming together! Wondering if people could say if they are free before the con and when so we can get together and start doing some good stuff ;) Cheers, John ----- Forwarded message from Isaac Alexander <isaacada1(a)yahoo.com> ----- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Isaac Alexander <isaacada1(a)yahoo.com> To: animecons(a)baka.org Cc: Subject: [ACML] Bibliography of Con Resources For all you startups out there, as well as veteran cons, here's a smorgasborg of good intel for you. http://fanac.org/Conventions/Running/conbibl.html Also, I just love this list of Ten Commandments created at Smofcon 22. Ten Commandments of Convention Running 1. Thou shalt not over-commit 2. Thou shalt do it in writing 3. Thou shalt follow up 4. Thou shalt not mess with the IRS 5. Thou shalt honor thy guests 6. Thou shalt remember to live in the real world 7. Thou shalt not kill (no matter how stupid the asshole is) 8. Thou shalt steal all good ideas 9. Thou shalt not panic (until after the convention) 10. Remember, despite being up to your neck in alligators (stobors?), that your original intention was to run a convention, and have a good time Cheers Isaac _______________________________________________ animecons mailing list animecons(a)lists.baka.org http://lists.baka.org/mailman/listinfo/animecons ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

19 years

(no subject)

by John Devlin

could u guys please e-mail me an let me an my friend know how to go about helping out in november. we already volunteered but whats the next step? _________________________________________________________________ Find Irish information fast with MSN Search Ireland! http://search.msn.ie

19 years

EirtaKon in Irish SciFi News

by Richard Phillips

Time to get that website looking good and information up, folks - should be a few visitors from this! ------------------------------------------- >From Irish SciFi News Newsletter #26: http://www.slovobooks.com/irishsfnews/ IRISH ANIME CONVENTION IN DCU IN NOVEMBER: EirtaKon is a convention devoted to 'Anime,' or Japanese-style animation, and will be running from Friday the 11th to Sunday the 13th of November this year, in Dublin City University on Collins Avenue in Dublin 9. There will be six screens showing anime through the course of the weekend, including some international premieres, along with a dealers' room, anime enthusiasts from all over Ireland, related gaming events, table quizzes, a Japanese Bazaar, a charity raffle, and much else. Entrance is 6 Euro for a day or 10 Euro for a weekend. Entrance will include a free con t-shirt, a con pack, free refreshments for the entire con and a special 'goodie bag.' More information from the EirtaKon website: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams/eirtakon/

19 years, 2 months

Website Re-Design

by AMS Committee

Right I'm looking for someone to redesign the EirtaKon site! CuLT had been hoping to do it but he's been snowed under with work :/ This will be to create the layout of the pages, CSS etc. Anyone interested?? John -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

19 years, 2 months

Q-Con Outcomes

by Richard Phillips

Few outcomes from Q-Con that may be helpful w.r.t. Eirtakon: (this isn't exhaustive, but off the top of my head..) 1) The performance of the bulk of the PMR Radios were disappointing to say the least - this may be due to poor quality mic on the headset for it, and/or high amount of background noise. These will require further testing to see if they are usable. Two higher-quality PMR radios and headsets performed much better. Range was also an issue, likely due to interference from buildings blocking signal. There may also have been 'special' things in the area (high voltage stuff) which could have caused interference, but the radios would need to be tested in-situ to confirm that they'll be usable. On the other hand, mobiles worked reasonably well as an alternative - but as Q-Con is (mainly) held in a single venue this also influences things. I guess Eirtakon will be a lot more spread out, from memory. 2) Filler material (AMVs, PVs, Trailers) shown in gaps between 'main' showings were very popular indeed. It might be worth considering showing these at Eirtakon also. 3) The Aegis playback system (scheduler engine with ability to auto-schedule filler used at Ame/Aya/Minamicon, in a nutshell) worked fairly well, although had trouble with the external sub files we were using initially. This meant little work was necessary in terms of routinely keeping the anime playback going - simply sit back and watch for issues. The author would probably be willing to offer this to Eirtakon as well, making the assumption that the showings will not all be run from dvd :) 4) We ran out of our main ID badges and lanyards due to unexpected demand, despite having an extra 100 of them over expected attendance. Thankfully our cunning emergency badges made up the shortfall. Moral of the story - make damn sure you have emergency badges :P 5) The system utilised on the Q-Con badges for indicating Over 18 and days paid for worked well in general (put a cross or tick in the appropriate spot), but did suffer from some reg desk staff not comprehending the 'cross' concept and leaving it blank. However, i would not say that they are easy to discern at a distance, if nazi badge-checking is required. Paying for proper ID cards and lanyards was also very worthwhile in terms of presentation and overall event quality, despite the relatively high price (~£220+VAT for 300x) 6) Registration was well and truly packed at times. Try to get as many pre-regs as possible, and consider having different lines for pre-reg/pay on the day to speed things up. 7) Charity raffle did well, even being held over 3 days due to volume of stuff. However, one thing that was underestimated was the amount of time to actually carry out the raffle - 20 minutes is probably a minimum for around 20-30 items. Also better to allow this time properly in any timetable rather than winging it. 8) There were (allegedly) some murmurings about not having dubbed output - however, none personally received by Q-Con staff. Indeed, later forum postings from newcomers suggest that subbed is vastly preferred. 9) Sponsors - pretty much without exception - generally send screening material and prize support at the last possible opportunity (i.e 2-4 weeks before con) no matter how much prodding, which affects preparation and advertising quite a lot. Some arrived *after* the con..

19 years, 2 months

Sponsorship + Con Links

by AMS Committee

Right! Well I'm contacting as many stores in Ireland sa I can find anime or manga being sold - see boards.ie for the full thread. If anyone has any contacts or are friends with the store owners mention them on the list and we will send the trade & advertising pack by you if thats ok :) Here though are a number of links about running conventions. When you guys have time read over them and comment on them etc. Get any good ideas post about them! http://www.smof.com/conrunner/index2.htm http://www.vcn.bc.ca/sig/rsn/conrung.htm http://www.vcn.bc.ca/sig/rsn/cons/concklst.html http://www.vcn.bc.ca/sig/rsn/cons/nortstar.html Look forward to reading some replies ;) Cheers, John -- ________________ / \ [===={ Anime & Manga }====] \______Soc_______/ [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams

19 years, 2 months

Re: [Eirtakon-help] Documentary & Youths

by eirtakon-help＠lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Gah sorry about that - have now set it so replies will auto go to the list! Anyway the idea in terms of tickets is that they will be badges much like game cons with the colour setting them apart - weekend is one colour, friday another etc. Having under 18s a different colour means 8 different types of tickets which is doable. Intending that the registration desk you must provide some form of age identification - then they wear the tickets and it avoids having to show your passport or whatever to everyone! Yeah 14 sounds like a good age to stop at - means we have Under 15s, 15PG, 15's, 18's certs right? Yeah cool your on the quiz group :) Anyone who wants in just say so! John On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:35:56PM +0100, James Broadhead wrote: > Not neccesarily - we could just have people at the door of each > showing asking for id (passport/garda) for people who look dubious. > (As I have no experience whatsoever, I haven't a clue what it's going > to be like with regards to carrying around tickets etc. - obviously, > if people will have to carry a ticket to get into screens, the Steve's > suggestion is probably the best course) > > I'd suggest a cut-off age of maybe 14 at the youngest - beyond that, > children might get troublesome/disruptive during showings. > > As an aside; I'd love to help with the quiz questions (evil grin) > They should be general knowledge, but avoiding popular culture imo. > (Much as, I imagine, ones at gaming cons are like) > > > > > > On 5/29/05, AMS Committee <ams(a)redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote: > > Right first thing to actually mention is that pazuzu has taken > > another of the anime group jobs - so only 1 more left there. > > > > Ok so another cool thing has happened - a group over in the USA > > are doing an anime documentary and are intending to come over to > > europe to continue the documentary and want to go by EirtaKon > > as their first stop in Europe :) So they will be interviewing some > > staff and attendees, filming and such. > > > > Another point has arose... what age limit should be imposed on > > the convention? Most UK cons run as 16+ but thats mainly due > > to insurance Im told. Well DCU handels that so we just have > > to consider what extra work that means for us. Thaed has volunteered > > as a Youth Leader if we are going to allow under 16s to attend. > > > > One thing that comes to mind is that while we will be having certs > > put outside the showing rooms we will also have to have seperate > > badges (tickets) for the youths to make it easier to see who and > > who shouldnt be at a showing. During the day the bar will be closed > > except for the showings so they are fine there but all the night > > activites will be strictly 18+ anyway. We could have a show go > > on if we want and some staff dont want to help out in the pub quiz > > etc :) > > > > Thoughts? > > > > John > > > > -- > > ________________ > > / \ > > [===={ Anime & Manga }====] > > \______Soc_______/ > > > > [] Register at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~ams > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Eirtakon-help mailing list > > Eirtakon-help(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie > > http://lists.redbrick.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/eirtakon-help > > > > -- [23:17 06/April/2004 #lobby] <Yossarian> Hrm, if I'm not winning 'sweetest ass' - and my ass is winning for being hairy in 'best hair' - then logic would dictate that drusilla has one hell of a hairy arse. *ponders*

19 years, 3 months

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