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== Minnstf Links ==
*[http://www.mnstf.org Mnstf web page]
*[http://www.mnstf.org/records/ Minnstf Records Page] - Bylaws, older Board minutes, tax records

;Recent Minnstf Board Minutes in Wiki format
* [[minutes_oct26_2007]]
* [[minutes_dec15_2007]]

=== Minnstf History ===
[http://www.smithway.org/history/fathers1.html The Floundering Fathers Panel] - An interview with Minnstf founders Nate Bucklin, Ken Fletcher, Fred Haskell, Frank Stodolka, and Jim Young, circa 1977

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== Minicon stuff ==
=== Current Minicon Webpages ===
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon44/ Minicon 44] (2009)
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon43/ Minicon 43] (2008)

=== Minicon History ===
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Minicon Home Page] - contains links to all home pages for previous Minicons
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicon Minicon is on Wikipedia!]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_past_Minicons Wikipedia list of past Minicons]- 3 lines for each con
*[[Minicon mini-history]] - quick summary of recent Minicons including name of chair and attendance
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/history/ Minicons 1-30, detailed summary]
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/history/minicon_history.html Fred's Minicon history, 1-39] - includes dates, hotel, GOH, and attendance

=== Resources for con-running ===

==== Blog ====
Blog is the traditional drink of Minicon. It's a sweet fruit punch, typically spiked with liberal amounts of vodka. The nonalcoholic variant is referred to as "St. Paul blog" for historical reasons. - [[Blog Recipe]]

==== Moderator Tip Sheet ====
The Moderator Tip Sheet was developed by the Programming Committed for Minicon 24. Besides general tips on how to plan and run a panel at an SF convention, the Tip Sheet includes a handy dandy worksheet for the moderator to use before and during the panel.
*[http://dreamshark.com/Minicon/moderator.html Moderator Tip Sheet (HTML)]
*[http://dreamshark.com/Minicon/MODTIPS.TXT Moderator Tip Sheet (text)]

==== Running a small convention ====
* [[Small_Convention ]] - Tips on planning and running a small SF convention

====Programming====
* [[Room requirements for Minicon]]
* [[Scheduling notes]]
* [[The seasons of programming]]
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon43/programming/ Minicon 43 Programming Notes]
* [[Supplies needed for Programming]]
* [[Who's good for which programming]]
* [[Documents or database?]]

====Registration====
* [[General thoughts on Registration]]

Doing it by database

2008-09-02T23:21:00Z

75.73.8.94: New page: ==The way I've done it so far== When I (Rachel) have done programming -- the writing of panel descriptions, the figuring out who's volunteered for what, the recording of who's said they wo...

==The way I've done it so far==
When I (Rachel) have done programming -- the writing of panel descriptions, the figuring out who's volunteered for what, the recording of who's said they won't be on which thing with whom, all that stuff -- I've done it largely with a few word processored documents:

===Programming suggestions===
This lists all the current programming ideas that we've gotten, usually in alphabetical order by title of item. The full battery of information for a single programming item might be:

{|
|Number
|Title
|Description
|Suggested participants
|Notes
|-
|23
|How to sqork your fonspeam
|Many people have argued over whether or not to sqork your fonspeam. We'll try to tease out some of the issues involved.
|Hern Q. Forndoodle, Spake Thustran, Angela Q. Walrusnostril
|Forndoodle requests not to be on anything with P. -- Notify sqorking lists about this
|}

So you've got the number of the programming idea (useful only to keep track of how many ideas you've gotten so far -- don't start referring to ideas by their numbers, because the numbers will change), what it's currently called, what it's about and who's been suggested for it. We also have a couple notes: that one of the panelists would rather not be on this panel with someone else (intentionally kept vague -- this document ends up getting seen by a lot of people, and it's best not to broadcast people's personality conflicts), and an idea for where to get more panelists.

Several months later, the same document will mutate to look like this:

{|
|Number
|Title
|Description
|Suggested participants
|Size
|Room
|Time
|Notes
|-
|37
|How to sqork your fonspeam
|Sqorking your fonspeam has been the subject of furious debate recently. Although some people think that sqorking is necessary for any decent fonspeam, others say that fonspeams are best unsqorked. We'll try to avoid extremes as we discuss this subtle and nuanced issue.
|<strike>Hern Q. Forndoodle</strike>, Spake Thustran, Angela Q. Walrusnostril (m), Plerb Quorn-Friddle
|Big
|Bloomington
|Friday, 9:00-10:00pm
|Forndoodle requests not to be on anything with Plerb Quorn-friddle
|}

So now we've added in how big it is likely to be (that is, how big a room it's likely to need, which is also to say how many people we expect to be interested in the topic), what room we've currently got it assigned to (and if we've already assigned rooms, this must be from only a month or so before Minicon) and what time-slot we've got it assigned to (which also shows that we must be very late in the programming process indeed). We've also tweaked the description a bit (apparently, there was worry that the topic would generate excessively heated argument), and we got a panelist added, and gotten confirmations from the other panelists (showed by the fact that they're underlined), and gotten a confirmation from one who's willing and able to be the moderator ("m"), and one other panelist who's confirmed that they ''won't'' be on this panel. (Possibly because of the conflict with the new panelist, or maybe because the first one had a conflict, and now the new one could join; I carefully never state ''why'' people leave or join programming items.)

This document is by far the most important one in the way I've been doing programming. Keep one canonical version, save often, backup frequently, all that stuff.

===Programming grid===

Once you know with about 80% certainty who's going to be on what and when, it's time to create the actual grid. This is the big schedule that shows where every panel and programming item is, what times everything's at and (ideally) who's on what and more good information like dat. This grid should be put up on the web and turned into the pocket program somehow. It's also good to give it Dean in a database format so that he can turn it into a PDA application.

===Programming notifications via e-mail===

You should really e-mail all your programming participants about what items they're on, with whom, when, where, and about what. You should also send them whatever other info they need: where the Green Room is, when it's open, what can be found and done there; how to get in touch with you or the other programming staff during the con;

===Sticky badges===

Turning all your information into

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2008-09-02T22:51:10Z

75.73.8.94: /* Programming */

Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
== Minnstf Links ==
*[http://www.mnstf.org Mnstf web page]
*[http://www.mnstf.org/records/ Minnstf Records Page] - Bylaws, older Board minutes, tax records

;Recent Minnstf Board Minutes in Wiki format
* [[minutes_oct26_2007]]
* [[minutes_dec15_2007]]

=== Minnstf History ===
[http://www.smithway.org/history/fathers1.html The Floundering Fathers Panel] - An interview with Minnstf founders Nate Bucklin, Ken Fletcher, Fred Haskell, Frank Stodolka, and Jim Young, circa 1977

----
== Minicon stuff ==
=== Current Minicon Webpages ===
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon44/ Minicon 44] (2009)
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon43/ Minicon 43] (2008)

=== Minicon History ===
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Minicon Home Page] - contains links to all home pages for previous Minicons
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicon Minicon is on Wikipedia!]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_past_Minicons Wikipedia list of past Minicons]- 3 lines for each con
*[[Minicon mini-history]] - quick summary of recent Minicons including name of chair and attendance
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/history/ Minicons 1-30, detailed summary]
*[http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/history/minicon_history.html Fred's Minicon history, 1-39] - includes dates, hotel, GOH, and attendance

=== Resources for con-running ===

==== Blog ====
Blog is the traditional drink of Minicon. It's a sweet fruit punch, typically spiked with liberal amounts of vodka. The nonalcoholic variant is referred to as "St. Paul blog" for historical reasons. - [[Blog Recipe]]

==== Moderator Tip Sheet ====
The Moderator Tip Sheet was developed by the Programming Committed for Minicon 24. Besides general tips on how to plan and run a panel at an SF convention, the Tip Sheet includes a handy dandy worksheet for the moderator to use before and during the panel.
*[http://dreamshark.com/Minicon/moderator.html Moderator Tip Sheet (HTML)]
*[http://dreamshark.com/Minicon/MODTIPS.TXT Moderator Tip Sheet (text)]

==== Running a small convention ====
* [[Small_Convention ]] - Tips on planning and running a small SF convention

====Programming====
* [[Room requirements for Minicon]]
* [[Scheduling notes]]
* [[The seasons of programming]]
* [http://www.mnstf.org/minicon43/programming/ Minicon 43 Programming Notes]
* [[Supplies needed for Programming]]
* [[Who's good for which programming]]
* [[Doing it by database]]

====Registration====
* [[General thoughts on Registration]]