Clockworks and Rabbits

We received this communiqué from our Programming Director. After some deciphering, we are posting the text as best we could make out.

( A new year has arrived and like zombies rising from the grave it’s time to gear up for What The Fur 2011. )

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Nous avons reçu ce communiqué de notre directeur de la programmation. Après quelques déchiffrage, voici le texte mieux nous pourrions faire.

( Une nouvelle année est arrivée et comme les zombies ont déjà commencés à se lever, il est grand temps de s’armer pour What The Fur 2011.  )

So the progres report for What The Fur is nearly finished. I love how, just as I think I'm nearly done with the thing something new needs to be added or corrected. But things are progressing well. It feels like it will be better than I hoped it would be for the first year.
I'm curious about how many of you who are reading this will be in attendance this June. How many people out there will go? Why will you go? What would get you to go to WTF? What would you like to see there or do while there?

Enquiring minds and all...

In other con-related-type-stuff, I'm looking forward to Furnal Equinox in March. It'll be good to visit Toronto again after all this time. To see some folks I haven't in a long time.
I'm also looking forward to both Con*Cept and FurFright this fall. I think this is the year I start to attend more conventions, rather than just run them.

Hello everyone!

Well, as you may have guessed, having the What The Fur calendar available for the end of 2009 just didn't happen. Though support for the project was great, we didn't receive enough submissions to make it viable.
So, we're putting out the call once more!

We would like to have a calendar available in time for the actual convention, and we want to make sure it will cover at least to the end of 2011.

So...

Attention Artists!
Would you like to have your artwork prominantly displayed on people's kitchen walls, cubicles or bedrooms? Would you like to help support the convention and our selected charity?
Get in on the What The Fur Calendar!
We need artwork! Generally artwork that fits the convention's theme: Pirates vs Ninjas.
All artwork should be 8.5x11 (slightly smaller is acceptable). Colour or greyscale. Should be furry as well.
All we need is a high quality scan of the artwork.

You will have the undying love of the convention organizers!

If interested, please reply here or send an email to info@whatthefur.ca

So I was a little bored lastnight when I was tinkering with What The Fur 's site, and created a quick banner ad.
If you want to link back, here it is!



In other news, we're chugging along. Registration is open, and plans are being set.
We should have the hotel room block open for reservations soon. Please do not call the hotel to register a room yet! The currently available rate is not the one we will be offering!
If you do reserve a room at the hotel before we officially open the reservations with the hotel, please let us know and we will see if there is anything we can do.

day 4 of 8:30 am shift start time.
Strangely, although sleeping has been an adventure unto itself, I find i'm massively more productive working the day shift.

Things I have accomplished this week:

• Gotten the website I am working on for work almost at a testable phase. This includes getting the official font for the company, the style guides and such, as well as getting the form to request corporate intranet web space for the site.
  • This also includes the sister-site that I am developing for one of the other teams in my department
• Been to meetings and am developing a new method for one of our partner companies to interact with us.  This is big and imacting.
• kept on top of current job stuff.

I have to admit that I am dead tired when I get home, but getting home at around 6pm is an oddity for me. One more week of this then I go back to my nice and comfortable 11:30 start time.

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When: Sunday, March 8th, following the monfur Brunch (generally 1-pm-ish)
Where: The Warren, Mtl branch (ie: My place)
What: First planning meeting for What The Fur
-Discussion on Staff positions
-Discussion on venue, location
-Discussion on date
-Discussion on general needs

All those wanting to be on concom (as insane as you are for wanting to be) are invited. However I would ask you all to contact me. This way A) I know how many to expect (probably not too many) and B) to give directions for those who need them.

Yes, this means we're going to get this thing off the ground.

Just fielding ideas here.

Were you to start a Furry Convention, in your opinion, what are the most important things to have?
What events/areas/workshops/etc... do you, as a convention goer (or concom) feel should be present?
What are the best things you've seen and/or experienced at conventions past, wherever they may be?
What kinds of guests are important? Are guests even important at all?


(Yes, this is going somewhere. No, I won't divulge it yet. Yes, I'm probably talking to myself.)