mdlbear | Loscon Contact Information (Reply)

At the moment, the only contact information for Loscon on the web can be found here in the archived website of Loscon 32. Since all the email addresses are generic, there's a pretty good chance they're forwarded to the right people, though of course there's no way of knowing in all cases. "Programming" is known to work.

Meanwhile, people in search of information about Loscon can try posting on the loscon community; maybe if we all do it the helpful folks there will prod the webmaster into finishing the site updates that were apparently started a couple of weeks ago.

Note to webmasters: Never leave a site in an unuseable or semi-useable condition. No matter what horrendous, gnarly upgrade you're trying to do, make sure that:

All the old links continue to work. If last year's convention was www.loscon.org/32/, then make sure that www.loscon.org/33/ works this year, even if all you do is copy the old site and slap an "under construction" on the front page.
Start with the event date, and hotel, and all of the current contact information. Make sure that's on the web and useful, even before the other info on the front page. That's what people are looking for on your website; if they can't find it, they're going to post rants in their blogs.
Never let the understandable desire to have a pretty site with all the latest bells and whistles get in the way of having a useful site. People didn't come to your website to look at the blinkenlights; they came for information. If they can't find it, you're going to lose members/customers/eyeballs/whatever, and possibly be the subject of rants that will haunt you for years on Google.

That ends the second of today's Public Service Announcements; it's time for this old Bear to trundle off to work.