If the Continuums get running again, one of my eventual hopes is that ConFound will build up enough funds to seriously offset the cost of one of the cons as a one-off.
Do something like actually pay for the hotel, or a substantial portion of it, with no expectation of recouping the money, on the proviso that they have suitably low prices and advertise the fuck out of the convention. Given what I've seen over the last few years, an addition to that would be 'take some risks/try new things.'
All of that is geared towards the idea of getting new people into fandom, which has always been the secondary goal of the Continuums. Primary is that the majority of people have fun. Tertiary is that people learn how to run cons.
I can think of a number of Foundations and similar groups that have become more about maintaining the status quo, or making money, than servicing the very people for whom the things were formed.
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Do something like actually pay for the hotel, or a substantial portion of it, with no expectation of recouping the money, on the proviso that they have suitably low prices and advertise the fuck out of the convention. Given what I've seen over the last few years, an addition to that would be 'take some risks/try new things.'
All of that is geared towards the idea of getting new people into fandom, which has always been the secondary goal of the Continuums. Primary is that the majority of people have fun. Tertiary is that people learn how to run cons.
I can think of a number of Foundations and similar groups that have become more about maintaining the status quo, or making money, than servicing the very people for whom the things were formed.