and/or in serving on the committee, please check out our website at sites.google.com/orycon.org/o... for more information & links to Google Forms that you can use to provide feedback.

Please either respond to Linnea directly (email in thread) or use the Google form.

Posts here will be forwarded.

and each convention officially starts from scratch the next year.)

If you are interested in providing suggestions for new models, narratives of problems with the current model that should be considered in selecting a new model,
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I'm reaching out to the larger OSFCI community for feedback and suggestions for changes we may want to make to our current organizational model for running conventions. (OSFCI currently uses a model where someone bids to run a specific convention in a specific year
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Meanwhile, there's the OSFCI Chair Process Review Committee. Committee chair Linnea Thompson <linnea.thompson@orycon.org>writes:
I'm the head of the OSFCI Chair Process Review Committee (which is unrelated to any specific seated convention or announced convention bid), &
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If you wish to make a donation in Marc’s name, you can find the donation link as well as more details about Friends of Noise and their upcoming shows on their website: friendsofnoise.org

The family extends deep gratitude to everyone who supported Marc during his illness.

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As many of you know, Marc was a talented musician himself who loved supporting young musicians and all sorts of music, especially Friends of Noise, a non-profit dedicated to helping to support diversity among young musicians.

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Marc didn't believe in funerals. Instead, his ashes will be scattered in the Columbia River Gorge. We will hold a wake at a future date, likely at the Rose City Book Pub, with a general
invitation to follow.

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Throughout his life, Marc was an active techie at conventions, served as president of the Portland Science Fiction Society, and President of the Board of Directors of OSFCI for many years.
Above all, he was a cherished husband, father, grandfather, and friend.

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oSTEM stands for "Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics" & their conference had national & international students & professionals. If your con has a strong science track then outreach to local chapters could be beneficial for programming and memberships.

www.ostem.org

OryCon had just moved from its previous Nov dates & so had the oSTEM conference so serendipity! We knew oSTEM attendees were interested when at set-up they saw a person with blue hair wearing an OMSI sweatshirt & our merchants they thought we were part of their conference.

conference.ostem.org