Pocket program
The Pocket Program is a brief document used at Minicon (and perhaps other Mnstf cons). It is ideally intended to fit easily in people's pockets, and provide ready reference for the following things:
- The full programming grid, including titles, locations and times of all programming items (and participants and even descriptions, if space allows).
- Maps of the hotel, updated to include where movies will be shown, where late-night concert jams are happening, where dealers are, etc. etc etc.
- Hours for various con functions, including registration, art show, dealers room, science, volunteers, info desk, hospitality (consuite/bar), movies and whatever else needs to have hours posted
- Contact information for the Code of Conduct Committee
- A reminder to call 911 in the event of true emergencies
- Other ready-reference information as needed
- Occasional art -- publications may have access to art that is appropriate, as may the con chair or other folks on the concomm
The past few years, I've mostly been doing the pocket program as a tabloid (11x17") document. This has allowed the type to be barely readable: generally 8pt URW Palladio in the main programming grid. Smaller paper requires smaller type. People complain about the tabloid size paper -- "this isn't pocket sized" -- but they can fold it. If the paper was much smaller, I bet the complaints about readability would be much louder.
Because the pocket program is only a single sheet, printing it has a very short lead time (at least compared to the