Beta's 2023 Todo List

I needed a place to organize this and here seems as good as anywhere else. This list starts 9/8, and is just over 2 months from con. It includes everything that's in bitrix still left to do plus misc items I've come up with.

Graphics

• T-shirt design
• Badge Designs
  • Lower the back-of-badge message.
• Pins/Buttons
• VIP buttons
• Con Book Cover
• Maze
• Word Find
• Jokes
• Schedules
  • UPDATE - Break out the VIP hours to be more clear for people on the printed schedules and the door schedules
• Con book
  • UPDATE - Break out the VIP hours to be more clear for people
• Signage
  • New sign on why we need name/birthdate in registration
  • Large signs attached to registration tables that say "CASH ONLY" as a last warning for people close to the front (harder for someone to steal, and for those who missed the earlier signs for whatever reason)
  • Signage for staff unloading explaining exits while bay doors are up. (tjsomething)
  • Signs for opening hours (samschuler)
  • Add open hours to the merchant sign. (omega_m)
  • Signage for registration that says "vendors are closing soon" so we hopefully don't get the people who only want to go to the vendors who register right before it closes and get mad. (elemecca)
  • "in a tunnel, go away" signs for the admin desk (elemecca) - Started a glowforge sign design. Can print a few and paint them
  • Signage for free popcorn. (tjsomething)
• Badge text
• 11 x 17 Poster
• Social Media avatar
• Move old graphics from dropbox to bitrix (add this as an annual bitrix task)
• Annual Age badge
• 4x6 Fliers Triaged.

Printing

• Badge checking work instruction, updated for 2023 - 5 copies - panels, workshops, volunteers desk, main entrance, vendors... +1 for tabletop?
• Annual Age badges

Free-standing fabric signs

• 2x Day Zero signs

Walmart poster board

• Logistics Tape color sign

Guests

• Complete guest stuff (details private)
• Get guest checks and per diem ready Blocked by not having all guests contracted yet

Logistics

• Annual Con Layout
• Logistics Maps blocked by layout
• Count Signs
• Organize signage plan
• Logistics Inventory
  • Ties
  • poker chips
  • badge supplies
  • toner
  • hand sanitizer bottles?
• pipe and drape for signs behind guests?? We barely have enough
• Permanently and loudly label the stepping stool as “Con Store” Thomas marked it off so I guess it's done

Registration

• Staff letter - Asked heads what they want in it. Definitely needs changes for this year. Remove info about updating the wiki - most can't, the rest won't
• VIP letter - Get merchant hours and specify what 30 minutes they get early access to
• Set alarm for bank run - "It looks like the closest Wells Fargo is on Oddie in Sparks and they close at noon on Saturdays. The next closest one is over on Plumb lane and they are closed on Saturdays."
• YPS reports
  • List what valid IDs are on the Invalid ID form in the YPS.
  • Possibly do separate yellow pads per day per person so it's more obvious what day each thing happened on. Collect all yellow pads at the end of each day and file them, then issue fresh ones the next day. Put the date on the cover.
• Mark box(es) to put paper to be recycled in Reg, along with lists of what to recycle and what to reuse. - We will be using a conbook box, but maybe put together a sheet of instructions we can print on colored paper

• Figure out reg hours - https://register.snafucon.com/admin/registration/hours/2022 Handed to Cassy
• Email users without badges to prompt to get badges I sent out an all-list blast. That should be sufficient.
• Print sheet with QR codes for the official SMART Verifier app so reg techs can install it easily if the in-BACON verification goes down. Natasha did this
• Someone needs to audit and correct Volunteer entries from 2021 Natasha did this
• Didn't we want to change VIP deadline?????? Too late?? =( We were able to do this; sent out email blast and updated dates and stuff

HR

• Bother more people to apply
• Send out another staff Campaign with meeting notes and meeting info!!
• "We need a badge checker at main stage a half hour before we open" (schuler)
• Instructions for how to deal with a person who's in a tunnel when finding someone else isn't an option and it's not urgent enough to break the tunnel - message in discord, paper note for later
• Update interest points to remove some of the guilt-text from 2 years ago

Cosplay

• Is cosplay chess planned?
• Is the masquerade planned?
• Are meetups planned?
• Buy ribbons
• Is Ethan getting cosplay panels? - he's aware and doing what he can, no more need to push on it
• Is cosplay repair planned? What do I need to buy? - Ethan says this is good

Programming

• TBD
• Make sure we remove half hour slots from the signup form Completed by Thomas

Merchants

• Open Swap Meet
• plan swap meet with Tim
• Open Club/org?

• Get relevant contracts to guests
• Merchant Info Card update
• Merchant info card print/laminate - we need enough for merchants + extras, to try for like 96 because they print in sheets of 6; 16 pages

• Swap Meet Contract
• Club/Org contract

Marketing

• guest alert
• precon final push - map, schedule, final things
• Figure out VIP swag
• Masquerade and Talent show opening emails

• register now! went out as prereg/VIP closing email
• Create and schedule hotel blasts - one URGENTLY, one "last chance for VIP", one "last chance to get a room" - Scheduled
• Pull Merchandise numbers for Dragon A new report has been made
• Panelist push Handled by Natasha and Sammich

Press

• Press release (blocked by guests)
• Press Kits
• Press campaign

Venue

• BEOs due soon
• figure out room schedules
• figure out vip snacks/catering
• other questions we had
• compare to BEOs we received 2021, do we need to reformat?
• air conditioner, plan when we went it high
• Short guide to checking in for master account peeps Blocked by getting info from GSR to make guide

• GSR Restaurant list with Sunday closing times the Grand Cafe closes at 2am on Sundays, 3am other days https://discord.com/channels/416146296097865729/901632506317639781/1153480509859569744
• summarize catering separately after room info
• we want all of nevada locked all weekend
• don't lock bathrooms by Nevada at night (or at least until after 2am)
• food vouchers
• Catering broken out in addition to listed with rooms
• dance floor for rave
• remove cab table behind main stage

Purchases

• hand sanitizer
• Get a better webcam and a longer USB cord for main stage (samschuler)
• Lighter shoji screens (schuler)
• 6ft banners for behind the guests

• personal - more phone chargers
• No photos badge ribbons? (elemecca)
• Logo lanyards Inventory says we have like 300 left, why do we need more??
• 2023 holo stickers
• HDMI audio splitter would be good for the Epsons, which have no audio out. (tjsomething)
• Get micro-HDMI and Thunderbolt adapters for the projectors. (tjsomething)
• Pallet wrap. (tjsomething)
• AA hand sanitizer bottles
• Ties
• Buy gaffer tape; oops. We always had so much, until we didn't. (beta.mfd)
• We ran out of money bands over the years. Time to buy more. (beta.mfd)
• We burned through a lot of pens on the lability waivers (mostly from people keeping them), buy more pens. (beta.mfd)
• More Easels!!! (jmichaelvincent) (bought 10 more)

Misc

• Install linux on laptop in case we need it?
• Wiki - taking reg money to cage cashier procedure and policies
• Add Medical Marijuana cards as valid forms of ID as they have all necessary information (photo, name, DOB, issued by a government) (llamacrying)
• Wiki entries for: how to handle a medical emergency; post-con lost & found process; dealing with cardboard at con; (beta.mfd)
• Write procedure, if vendor is not at their booth at room opening. (omega_m)
• Pull a list of banned people and review with rovers heads, chairs before con. (elemecca)
• Button for Dragon "I cause problems"
• Get 2021 schedule up on the website

• Buy myself some N95s I'm comfortable with

• Update badge checking procedure with acknowledging people if it’s not already in the policy. (beta.mfd)
• I wonder how hard it would be to program the badges to export in groups of 6 so when they're cut in stacks they're more likely to end up in order, or at least end up with chunks of in-order badges for easier sorting. Thank you ChatGPT! I didn't have to even put any thought into it!
• Give "My First Mistake" to Tim (elemecca)
• Role bot for opt-in roles
  • Opt-in roles for logistics helper, convention support, badge checker relief, etc. so they can be pinged as needed.
• Add press release & press kit to annual todo

Administration

• Enter refunds from RT (furthered this along 9/24; one entered, two requests replied waiting on responses)
• Pay BMI
• Pay ASCAP
• Merge users that need merging
• Catch up books Triaged. Don't actually need before con.
• File Sales Tax Completed through August
• Update bitrix templates with new people
• Clean up RT users, removing people who aren't part of the con this year, etc