General comment on Programming considerations...tracking attendance?
 "Silly Kanga-rabbit or Dumb Bunny-roo?" Location: Melbourne area, Florida
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Just curious if there's anyone really keeping track of what events get what kind of attendance. I ask because it may help out with planning what should go where when it comes to creating the schedule for the con. There's obvious points of course, Opening Ceremony and the stampede to the Dealer's Den immediately following...the line outside of 2's rant and such. Sgt. Steve of course knows the major ones. I'd think keeping some informal or formal record of attendance at each event/panel would be helpful. Down the road, it could hel point out "Oh, the charity auction doesn't get people in till midway because of x" or whatever, and then an attempt at shuffling events could be made. Just throwing that out there. Panel organizers could keep track of attendance and general trends (people flooding in a while after it started, etc). I know some tracking is done at some points and such, but it'd be nice to have data to work with. (and my systems engineering mindset comes out with ideas of running models based on attendances and distances...) |
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I can provide data for my events:
Intro to Sculpture- 2-3PM Friday, in the Westin- I think I had around 20-25 people in there. This was the second year I offered this panel and had about double the attendance of last year.
3-D artist and Craftsman roundtable- 3:30-4:30 Friday, in the Westin- I had a total of about 7 people, with never more than 3 in attendance at any given time. 4 of those read the title on the schedule grid and thought it was for 3-D COMPUTER programs... which it totally was not. It was intended as an intermediate and master panel for anyone working in sculpture, pottery, casting, woodworking, etc. The ones that actually realized it was a panel of that were all interested in woodworking.
I will not offer this panel again.
Rage CCG Demo- 7-9PM Friday night, in the gaming room- THANK GOD THEY MOVED THE GAMING ROOM THIS YEAR! Kudos to the scheduler. The room was less noisy than previous years and didn't cause hypothermia. (last year is shared a wall with headless lounge. It was freezing, and not in a pleasant way) But I digress...
I had about 7 people for this, which was about what I wanted. 8's about max I can handle. Apparently there were more people that wanted to play but caught me next night and said they "couldn't find me at 8PM" when they arrived. Which is utterly bizarre since I was there the whole time and the person that told me this I had actually talked to on Friday around 8ish when I'd stepped out to get water because I was going hoarse. The rest of the people in demo were still there and clearly visible.
Rage CCG demo 10PM-midnight Satruday, in the gaming room- I initially had 3 people for this, than had another 3 show up past the halfway point after their event had let out. So I had two games going for a bit. Total of about 7.
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