Conucopia

What's New, Jan-Mar 1999

Rev. 02-Apr-1999

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Chaz Boston Baden, web99@99.nasfic.org

30-Mar-1999
Art Show, Artists Rules - the Art Show is 31% full. Added to the list of artists: Boie, Denise; De La Rosa, Al; Erichsen, Kurt; Garner, John; Hail, Elizabeth; Honeck, Butch; Lee, April
25-Mar-1999
Gary Louie Memorial Page - added a picture taken of Gary at Disneyland on Super Bowl Sunday.
Registration Form - fixed a typo (wrong year for deadline).
13-Mar-1999
Members Home Pages - added Brickner, George [www], Brin, David [www]
Related Links - added Loscon 26 [www], Roswell in 2002 [www], San Jose in 2002 [www], Los Angeles in 2002 [www] Westercon Bid, Toronto in 2003 [www], Cincinnati Fantasy Group [www], New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), Costumers Guild West [www], TRH Gallery [www], The SF Site [www], Welcome to Liad [www]
12-Mar-1999
Anaheim Marriott - Plain ascii text version of room reservation form now online.
Gary Louie, Part 2 - added comments by Frank Waller.
Progress Reports - complete text of Progress Report 2 now online, including advertisements.
Film and Video Contest, Mailing Addresses - added rules and mailing address for Film and Video Contest.
"Hello, Concom Member" - 35% of the membership subscribes to the Conucopia Infobot News mailing list.
11-Mar-1999
Art Show - equalized columns again.
Advertising, Addresses - corrected an address, updated info for remaining PR.
Art Show Rules - added info on sales tax, space reserved.
Blood Drive - added writeup from PR 2.
Addresses - added mailing address for Blood Drive.
Programming - added new material from Progress Report 2.
Staff and Committee List - moved some people around.
Volunteers - added paragraph about needing a membership.
10-Mar-1999
Staff and Committee List - added some Dance and Lounge appointments.
08-Mar-1999
Registration - At-the-door memberships are $125 for full attending, $65 for one day.
Progress Reports - PR2 was mailed Feb./Mar. 1999.
Chairman's Messages - added article from Progress Report 2.
Art Show As of 07-Mar-1999, the Conucopia Art Show is approximately 27% full.
07-Mar-1999
Art Show - updated list of confirmed artists.
Staff and Committee List - fixed a typo.
06-Mar-1999
Marriott - tinkered with "See Also" section.
05-Mar-1999
Members Home Pages - added Zeres, Zena [www]
Anaheim Marriott - Lower Hotel Rates! The Marriott has just lowered the convention rate to just $99 a night (plus tax), for singles, doubles, triples, and quads. Team up with your friends - four of you can stay for just $24.75 plus tax per night each! Full details on our Hotel page.
03-Mar-1999
Top redesigned, based on some ideas by Steven H Silver.
Staff and Committee List - made everyone's name a link to a mailto, wherever possible.
02-Mar-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999 - added link to Hazel's Picture Gallery [www] which has some pictures taken at the memorial service at LASFS.
Staff and Committee List - updated Programming, Fqacilities Divisions.
01-Mar-1999
Dealers List - added Dream Treasures. (We're in the process of removing a few dealers who did not pay their fees and replacing them.)
Gary Louie, 1957-1999; Gary Louie, Part 2 - added relative links, so you can click on a person's name and go straight to their comments; added comments from Nola Frame-Gray, Therri Moore.

24-Feb-1999
Members Home Pages - added Flynn, Dr. John [www]
19-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, Part 2- added comments by Mike Stern.
18-Feb-1999
Shuttles, Driving - updated with info from Marriott page.
Anaheim Marriott - fixed typo.
Live Theater - renamed, formerly "Halftime Show." All references updated.
Staff and Committee List - updated Programming Division.
Mailing Lists - minor edit, fixed a typo.
Art Show - added links to artists with web pages: Douglass, John [www], Freas, Frank Kelly [www], Freas, Laura Brodian [www], Wu, Frank [www].
Staff and Committee List - fixed a typo.
17-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, Part 2 - added comments from Chris Cooper.
Staff and Committee List - updated Volunteers.
16-Feb-1999
Art Show, Art Show Rules - moved rules for artists into the second page, put a list of Artists Confirmed to be Participating in the first page.
13-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999 split into two pages, the new page is Gary Louie, Part 2. I'm amazed at how many people have written to share something about Gary. It's not too late if you'd like to put in your bit, send it to web99@99.nasfic.org and I'll put it in.
Various - On-site non-HTML links no longer pop up a new window. This means that if you, for example, click on a text-version of one of our forms, you'll be able to use your "BACK" button to get back when you're done looking at it.
11-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999- added comments from Allison Hershey, Sharon Sbarsky, Joyce Scrivner.
09-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999- I just received word that Gary's family will be enclosing a diskette when they bury Gary on Friday... If you have anything you'd like to say to Gary's family, you can write to them at brucelouie@aol.com and mark the SUBJECT line "For the Louie Family."
Gary Louie, 1957-1999- added comments from Vincent Docherty, Kurt C. Siegel, Lynn Gold.
08-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999- added comments from Craig Miller, Shaun Lyon, Glenn Glazer, Mike Donahue, Eve Ackerman, Karen Meschke and Fred Duarte, Saul Jaffe, Kevin Standlee, Lew Wolkoff, Sally Woehrle, Ingrid Oliansky.
07-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, 1957-1999 - added comments from Berni Phillips, Alan Winston, Matthew B. Tepper, Ruth Sachter, Janice Gelb, Kim Campbell, Laurie D. T. Mann, Ben Yalow, Patty Wells, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Robert E Sacks, William Sadorus, Joyce Scrivner, Stuart C. Hellinger.
Top; Gary Louie, 1957-1999 - added "Conucopia is dedicated to the memory of Gary Louie, fan and friend." A memorial service will be held at LASFS [www] in North Hollywood CA, on 28-Feb-1999, tentatively set for 2:00 pm.
06-Feb-1999
Gary Louie, L.A.-area fan and Lego enthusiast, passed away Tuesday night 02-Feb-1999 of a heart attack at home. Gary had been active in local and national fandom for over fifteen years, including overseeing exhibits at L.A.con III [www]. Reminiscences and other bio material solicited for a memorial page on www.99.nasfic.org, please e-mail to web99@99.nasfic.org.
04-Feb-1999
Members Home Pages - added Cook, Norman L. [www]

27-Jan-1999
Masquerade - fixed typo ("ballroom").
24-Jan-1999
Addresses - added mailing address for Masque.
Masque information and rules added.
23-Jan-1999
Art Show - added Artist Information, including space reservation form.
21-Jan-1999
Anaheim Marriott - our Hotel page now has PDF Hotel Reservation Form and Low-Resolution GIF Hotel Reservation Form available. Note that the GIF version is (barely) suitable for browsing on screen and printing out; legibility is comparable to a fax. If anyone can't use PDF or GIF, please advise and I'll try to accommodate you.
19-Jan-1999
Volunteers Form - fixed HTML error.
18-Jan-1999
Mailing Lists - added a new mailing list, NASFIC99-CHAT.
15-Jan-1999
Staff and Committee List - updated "Help Desk Hostess" position.
Live Theater - added e-mail contact.
14-Jan-1999
Staff and Committee List - a few new positions under the Chair.
13-Jan-1999
Dealers List - updated description for Tombo Studios.
Mailing Lists - changed the name of the page in anticipation of adding a second mailing list.
Registration , Registration Form - changed "after 26-Aug-1986" to "on or after 27-Aug-1986" to eliminate all possible ambiguity.
11-Jan-1999
Registration - cosmetic change, switched a couple paragraphs around.
10-Jan-1999
Registration , Membership Conversion Rates, Registration Form - the pre-support discount has expired; pre-reg cutoff is 05-Jul-1999; kids membership rates.
09-Jan-1999
Addresses - added mailing addresses for Art Show, Progress Reports.
Members Home Pages - cosmetic change (the "[www]" was missing in places).
Volunteers - put in a slightly different write-up.
Staff and Committee Roster - updated Operations.
08-Jan-1999
Volunteers, Volunteers Sign-up Form - just installed, try it out today!
How to Use This Web Site, "Help!" - added more links to the rest of the web site.
"Hello, Concom Member" - added a few paragraphs explaining the e-mail archive system.
07-Jan-1999
Hits counter now counts loads of the root page http://www.99.nasfic/ instead of the sub-page (main/top.htm). 1997 hits log and 1998 hits log recalculated from the server logs.
Johnny Meerkat - fixed HTML error.
Basic Information - added link to Roommates
Want Ads - deleted filled positions.
Table of Contents - rearranged "What's New" pages, and put in a link to "What's New" as well as the oldest history file from How to Use this Web Site.
05-Jan-1999
Marriott , Roommates - minor layout mods, no new content.
Infobot is back in service.
04-Jan-1999
"Hello, Concom Member" - added a note about the Infobot News. and fill-in forms (HTML-to-CGI-to-email).
Daily Newsletter - expanded write-up, note about digital cameras, and the newszine staff list added.
Members Home Pages - added Markowitz, David L. [www]; Wu, Frank
03-Jan-1999
Dealers List - updated list to show tables reserved as of 02-Jan-1999. Corrected or added links to Dragonspawn Crafthall Ltd. [www]; Instant Attitudes [www]; Pegasus Publishing [www]
Roommates - added page with link to a Conucopia Roommates Message Board [www].
Registration , Membership Conversion Rates, Registration Form - the pre-support discount was discontinued in December.
Infobot News Mailing List - auto-subscribe back in operation after a week's hiatus. (A software upgrade dropped us from Perl 5 back to Perl 4, and the script stopped working.) I'm working on some other new features as well.
Members Home Pages - added Cantrell, Mark; Weitze, Bill
02-Jan-1999
Members Home Pages - added Bruce, Sara [www]; Freas, Frank Kelly [www]; Freas, Laura Brodian [www]; Van Scyoc, Joyce [www]
01-Jan-1999
Dealers List - moved the Trimbles into Books and Art; added link to Instant Attitudes [www]
Registration , Membership Conversion Rates, Registration Form - the rates just went up.


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