Last Update: 11/6/01
| March 2001 | |
|---|---|
| March | Finish making appointments |
| March 1 | Membership Price Increase: New -- $170; Converting -- $125 |
| March 3 | Program Division meeting – Pittsburgh, PA |
| March 10 | Brainstorming for an hour at PARSEC |
| March 30 | PR 5 Deadline |
| March 31 | Division Heads’ Meeting – Greenburgh, NY room allocation 95% solid, ribbon request due. Information distributed to all areas about how to schedule and supply scheduling information |
| April 2001 | |
| April ? | Brainstorming at PSFS |
| April 15 | List of science talks complete |
| April 13-15 | Minicon/Eastercon |
| April 21 | Open Program Division meeting – last brainstorming session – Pittsburgh, PA, create grid, add events and big items |
| April 30 | Formal Brainstorming Ends – Idea Form Comes Down – work on precises and putting people on panels |
| May 2001 | |
| May 12 | Preliminary schedules due from all areas (Tardis & Couch, Events, Exhibits, etc. - this basically did not happen.) |
| May 18-20 | Scheduling Frenzy – Pittsburgh, PA (aside from scheduling, at least an hour
will be spent on pocket program design issues; attendance at this meeting is
by invitation-only due to the amount of work and limited space.) (this should have happened at least two weeks earlier - we really needed more post-frenzy time to get everything done.) |
| May 25-27 | Balticon (may be attending Sat and Sun) |
| June 2001 | |
| June 1-2 | Division/Mega-area meeting, Philly, close-to-final AV information to Events |
| June 8 | Program draft, ready for consistency checks and fine tuning; copies to Lynn & Ann |
| June 22-24 | Midwestcon, Cincinnati |
| June 30 | Division Heads’ meeting |
| July 2001 | |
| July 8 | Finish scheduling, have Lynn and Gary review (this should have happened at least a week earlier) |
| July 14 | Send out schedules (this should have happened at least a week earlier) |
| July 15 | Send out rejection letters (this should have happened a few weeks earlier) |
| July 20 | DRAFT HTML/PDA/etc. versions to Web |
| July 20-22 | Confluence, Pittsburgh (come, relax!) |
| August 2001 | |
| August 1 | Final information from other areas integrated into master database. (this should have happened a week earlier) |
| August 4-5 | Final division meeting in Philly, final pocket program changes from areas due. (this should have happened a week earlier) |
| August 10 | Final dump of the database to pocket program. From here on out, all changes will be via mark-up to drafts and online version. (this should have happened a week earlier) |
| August 20 | Pocket Program sent to printer, final online version to Web. |
| August 25-26 | Jim and Laurie assemble program packets |
| August 27 | Jim and Laurie arrive in Philadelphia (Lynn??) |
| August 28 | Janice arrives in Philadelphia (late) |
| August 29 | Green Room/Program Ops set-up begins. Program Ops now controls the database (possibly 8/28, late afternoon) |
| August 30 | Program Starts (Don’t Panic) |
| September 2001 | |
| September 4-8 | Recover. |
| September 9 | Write report on how things went. (we didn't do this, but we still may) |
| September 24 | Try to get Thank-you Notes out, try to let people know status of reimbursements. (finished by late November 2001.) |