WisCon as planned activity

[bcholmes]

I attended my first WisCon on an impulse decision. Someone had mentioned the con on alt.poly, and when I read the panel descriptions, I was, like, "wow." This was something like three weeks before the con.

In those three weeks, I booked a room at the Concourse and bought my plane tickets. Advance membership sales had closed, but I bought a membership at the door. The WisCon block of rooms at the hotel had expired, but I got a room in the Governor's club. Fascinatingly, someone involved with doing WisCon hotel coordination recognized my name on the reservation lists and, without any prompting, arranged to have my reservation included in the WisCon rates (this remains one of those moments that makes me feel that WisCon is a more organized con than any other I've attended).

That was eight years ago, for the WisCon in 2000. It's a bit sobering to think that I couldn't do that now. You hafta plan your attendance to WisCon so much earlier now; the hotel fills up quickly and the registration is capped at a certain number of people.