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Arisia: ConChair

Responsibilities:

August (-17 months)

• Consider Guest of Honor philosophy.
• Make sure Hotel Search is in process.

September (-16 months)

• Attend Worldcon and/or NASFiC?. Schmooze potential Guests of Honor.

October (-15 months)

• Appoint GuestOfHonorLiaison?.
• Invite potential Guests of Honor.

November (-14 months)

• Appoint AdvertisingDesigner?.
• Deadline to get Guests of Honor, location, and date of con to AdvertisingDesigner?, so they can get an ad to the SouvenirBookEditor? on time.

December (-13 months)

• Appoint RegistrationHead.
• Appoint VolunteerCoordinator?.

January (-12 months)

• Attend previous con. Schmooze everyone. Be sure not to make implicit promises if you have not decided on your appointments.
• Use feedback from Gripe Session and Debrief and consider thematic and structural changes to the con.
• Appoint PromoParties?
• Appoint AssistantConchair? (s) if using strong assistant model

February (-11 months)

• Appoint TreasurEr?.
• Articulate budgetary vision to TreasurEr?.

March

• Finalize any changes to the division structure.
• Appoint any div heads who you want to have input into the budget.

April

• Appoint ProgrammingDivhead (s) if you have not done so already
• Schedule concom meetings for the entire year, and announce the schedule
• Shepherd budget process to a first draft.

May

• Appoint EventsDivhead? if you have not done so already
• Shepherd hotel space allocation to a first draft.
• Shepherd budget to a final draft.

June

• Shepherd budget through corporate approval process.

July

• Appoint any remaining div heads.

August

September

October

November

December more coming...