RedditCon Survey Followup

kefs · 4 months

I just want to say thank you to everyone who is working so hard to make redditcon a reality.

When I first created this subreddit two years ago, my idea of a massive convention of redditors & subreddits was only a pipe dream. Now, with everyone's hard work, it seems like this may actually be a reality one day... and I can't wait!

ZanshinJ · 4 months

Planning committees are the way to go. When it comes down to it, a small group of people that have individually designated responsibilities will be much more effective in the early stages of a project than a crowdsourced solution. The only thing that would probably require large-scale input would be location--once that is decided, a group of volunteers that know the area and can pound the pavement organizing venues, hotels, and programming will be far more effective than a rabble of people that all offer their suggestions and advice, but are unwilling to do any planning work.

Toovya · 4 months

Studying tour/expo production right now. Discussing this project with my teachers and will have something more formal in 10 weeks. Will be getting in contact with promoters who can fund the project, and integrating it with it being done entirely by the reddit community. Keep the ideas flowing!

kodemage · 4 months

You need a leader. A Czar, a convention coordinator. Someone to be the point guy and start building the group that will be the highest level decision makers for the con. You need to draw up some formal paperwork register a LLC or 501.3c to host the convention. Then the czar needs to form his executive committee. They need to decide how we'll pick a time, location, etc.

Once that core group of leadership is created then we can start the planning comitties and such. There needs to be a small amount of arbitrary structure imposed at the beginning by Reddit as a company and once that seed is planted the community can take the rule set provided and run with it.

I'd love to see a convention planned as a purely community event but in reality someone needs to be the first one to kick in some cash and Reddit as a company needs to keep some kind of control and get some "skin in the game" as it were so everyone knows this is serious business.

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