One of the things keeping me up at night is of course SciBarCamp . It’s this week.
The six organizers have never been in the same room together yet, so we’re doing a lot by e-mail. The closest we got to a physical meeting is when I crammed a few people in my tiny apartment last week and connected to two others by conference call.
I have little post-its everywhere that say “buy labels”, “Fri: tape, string, pens, scissors”, and reminders to email various people. I also used up several pages in a notebook for things like this. It’s all coming together, and within one afternoon I was able to cross off half of the things on my “worry list” yesterday, but that doesn’t mean they’re done, that just means I’m not worrying about them anymore (because I know how we’re going to get it done). If I add up the money we’ve been promised by sponsors and add up the costs of what we promised to pay, it almost matches, but we haven’t received or paid any actual money yet. The participant list is almost full, but of course it’s still actually possible that nobody shows up. We have a schedule with time slots and rooms, but the schedule is not going to be filled with topics until Friday night – that’s the whole point of the event. What if nobody proposes anything? Or, worse, what if there are too many sessions for the amount of time we have and we need to cut something_? What if all of a sudden all these people_-Toronto/Participants have an emergency this weekend and can’t come?
So, you see, I won’t know if it’s all working out until the actual event is over. Hopefully it will have gone well!
What if a meteoroid falls on Hart House?
I HAD NOT EVEN CONSIDERED THAT! Gee, thanks Sabine =P
On the bright side: the two bare necessities are both very close to being confirmed and arranged.
Coffee and wifi.
What else do we need anyway?
Cookies
You know. That is not such a bad idea. Our coffee comes from a mobile coffee guy (we had him last year too. Everyone loved him, because he was selling us coffee!) but I don’t think he has cookies.
We do have cheese and alcohol on Friday.
YOU HADN’T ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT COOKIES? OMG
1!!
Cheese is always good though.
Help, I’m drowning in e-mail.
Cheese and coffee – bad combination.
Good Luck Eva, please let us know what a smashing (without the meteorite) success it is. If you are still worried about the flying rock thing then check this link before you start.