I understand your dissapointment Rob, and I hope that we can pull together better as a team next time. I too was unhappy with the turn out for the parade and the loss of the table. If this was indeed the litmus test for our organizational skills, we passed, but not by much (maybe like a D-)
I think that too many of us had a "lets wait and see" approach to this convention. Overall I was very happy to see us gather together for dinner, although there was a real dissconnect when it came to who was taking and who was giving orders. We had difficulty finding your booth (and I know that wasn't your fault, D*C switched your location), but once we did get together it was a tough thing to balance your sense of urgency with everyone elses uncertainty and infamiliarity with the venue. A little more tolerance and understanding on everyones part would have made things go more smoothly.
I think everyone knew that your table list was being neglected, but with so many cramming to get ready for the commute, and so many people dropping out, I think that a last minute 'call to arms' would have been the right thing to do to rally us. I know that I've stated it before, but I think that we all should have gotten each others cell # before the trip to help with 'on the ground' coordination. Much of the difficulty we had with trying to get in contact could have been avoided, and you could have called some people to come take over the table before giving it up.
I know that you're upset, but I think that you're missing that others were trying to coordinate other than yourself. I spent most of Saturday afternoon trying to find you to get our plans straight for the dinner. Being that the D*Con staff couldn't even direct me to your booth I don't think that they're going to condemn OUR organizational skills. The whole thing was little bit of madness, all over.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I understand what you're saying, but I firmly believe that the best thing to do from this point is to move forward, focus on our organizational skills for upcoming events, and resist pointing blame at anyone in particular. Adam isn't our Daddy, he doesn't have all the answers. We ALL could have done better with this... any one of us could have put our foot down in the days preceeding the convention and said "Where the hell is our help?" But what started as a flash fire of enthusiasm when we initially began the registry and responded to your invitation smoldered to nothing but embers in the final days before the convention. Nobody poured the gas back on the fire... and ANY of us could have. I share your dissapointment, but I won't let that obscure that we made great progress in other areas and have the capacity to improve even more in the future.
Well, now we know, right? From what I hear, thats like half the battle! So lets learn from our mistakes and move forward.
And if anyone wants to step forward to offer their help to coordinate these events they certainly have the right to do so.
Don't look to the top expectantly, we all must do our parts.
