Want to help out, but not sure where to start? It's not too late to volunteer! Gophering takes no particular experience, just reliability and willingness to be helpful. It's a great way to meet people and round out your con experience. And, of course, it's perfect for experienced con volunteers who just didn't get around to signing up for anything before the con. Gophers are especially needed during the setup and teardown phases of the con, like right now! If you can volunteer an hour or two, check with the Volunteer Desk in the 2nd Floor Mezzanine OR go directly to the Bridge and offer your services.
Reliable night-owls needed for late-night volunteer shifts in Ops (and elsewhere). If you're planning to be awake and sober in the midnight-to-dawn hours, consider putting in a shift or two as a Badger, Gopher, or Twinkie. Besides the pizzazz this will add to your resume, volunteering is a great way to meet people, feel important and qualify for great prizes and trinkets.
Precise pre-registration count was not available at press time, but was believed to be 3100+.
CHICAGO IN 2000 CORRECTION
Despite Mr. Volstead Gridban's erroneous research in the Program Book, Chicago
in 2000 wishes the membership of Minicon 30 to know that since August 1994
there has been one and only one Chicago in 2000 Worldcon bid. The bid
committee contains members from all of the Chicago area and Milwaukee area
con-running groups, and is bidding for the Hyatt Regency Chicago, which was
home to the 1982 and 1991 Worldcons. Anyone with further questions may have
them answered at the concom's bid table or at the Chicago in 2000 party
Saturday night. Be sure to ask about our Trading Card project -- card #4
(Frederik Pohl) is being issued at Minicon!
The Folks From the Bhigg House, our Fan Group GOH, have planned a number of wonderful hospitality events that didn't make it into the pocket program:
Fri & Sat 10:00--Boston in 1998 invites you to Room 110 for a bid party that's Out of This World! Come join us poolside in Cabana Room 110 at the Radisson.
Fri 9:00--The Antarctica in `99 Bid Party, the smash hit of last year's Worldcon ("Cool...way cool") is back again!
Rms 681-683, North Tower (the short one).
Sat 9:00. SF Minnesota Party. "For people who love SF"
Rms 681-683, North Tower (the short one)
If you can't find that perfect party in the BBT listings or in the flyers by the elevators, check out the Tower of Parties. It's the giant cube with the blinking lights sitting in the mezzanine near the huckster room. If you want to post a party, ask at the info desk for a magnetic holder for your announcement.
Minicon 30 Indoor Clean Air Project:
Special Alert
While the corridors in the pool area are designated smoking and non-smoking areas, the party hosts/residents in each private hotel room set the "smoking policy" for their area. This includes private patios, so please don't fume at each other, and watch for smoking/non-smoking signs.
Thank you.
--- The Mgt
I'm deeply grateful to all the friends who helped me so much before and during my move 3 weeks ago! Many of you are registered for Minicon, so I know this is an opportunity to remind people what fine friends we have. Denny Lien, so much energy, I kept wondering when you'd slow down! Kay Drache, you saved my sanity (may have saved me needing bail?) Tom Juntenen, are you now phobic about white cats? Diana Steben, I haven't enough words. Mary McKinley and Kayte Norini, dig my patio? Myrna and Sarah Logan, your gifts makeWindrest that much warmer. Rhonda Danielson, my kitchen works so well! Also, all those whose sage advice: "It'll all be over soon..." got me through closing! And to all I haven't mentioned, my love. --- MARQS
What a childish thing to do..
Minicon is about hospitality. Stuffing locks with gum and paper is not hospitable. `Nuff said.
Desperately seeking Japanese Animation! If anybody is running any, please put up some flyers!
Minicon 30 has a homepage on the World Wide Web. You can find us at URL http://www.delivery.com/minicon30.
Three systems are available for web browsing in the fanzine room, 2209.
If you have prints of good photos of this minicon, we'd like to scan a few and add them to the web. Find David Dyer-Bennet in 2209 or 2213.
Way back before Minion 29 we had the bright idea of setting up a Minicon voice mail system so people with questions about the con could call in their questions at any time of the day or night. Somehow, in the flurry of burnouts and gafiations that tend to follow a con, the voice mail retrieval code was ...misplaced.
Well, the good news is, we found the retrieval code again! The bad news is, we found it last week. How many unanswered messages had piled up in the mailbox? Let's just say "the queue was full." In the spirit of better-late-than- never," the Concom would like to provide all the answers now.
Apologies to those of you who didn't get your questions addressed in a timely fashion. It really did seem like a good idea at the time.
Registering at the door Friday morning (yes, I am slime), I was startled to note that Minicon registration is, as a matter of course, handing badges to at-the-door people which feature only their first name. They'll go back and add your last name if you make a fuss