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little interview with earx of the outline staff
by moondog of .tSCc.
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Preface: At first this interview was thought to be held with all organizers. As
an online interview was quite tricky to organize I decided to send the sheet to
all involved people to smash it together afterwards, unfortunately and because
of unknown reasons to me, only Pieter answered the questions in the end, I never
got a filled sheet, statement or even simple reply by any other the others even
though Pieter tried hard to motivate 'em. So you should not wonder about the
following questions but after that negative experience I hadn't the motivation
to edit the whole sheet into a one-man-one...
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ucm... hello together... the party is laying back some weeks now, time to take a
look back on it from a good distance, so how are you?
orga.. i'm fine. actually, the party wasn't the foremost activity for me at the
time. mailing to the organisation team took place somewhere in between
work and education. looking back it was slightly stressful but also very
exciting. at the moment i'm kinda out of touch with my crew.. the first
month after outline was filled with mail evaluating the party outcome.
ucm... i guess the outline party idea was flowing around in your heads since the
pmp 99, didn't it? who was the one who decided to let the things roll?
orga.. it was havoc. the idea for an easter party in holland was first proposed
by maggie team, because it would shorten their trip, basically ;) we had
an idea to do another pmp, now a -post- millenium party, for a long time.
pmp was a big success and we certainly wanted to repeat the experience.
but finding the location was a huge problem. when you're part of a
scouting organisation, for instance, it's easy. when you're not, it'll
cost you a lot of cash and time.
ucm... was it easy to work out the party idea, seen from today? i guess it was
the biggest party project everyone of you was involved in as organizer,
wasn't it?
orga.. for me everything was smooth. but only at the party did i really help
out. before the party i only did some invitations and some mailing with
other guys. yeah, it was a huge thing. the building was really crammed
with freaks, nice to see. we actually had the possibility to get even
more people over there, but it wouldn't have fit ;)
ucm... as well seen from today, were you satisfied with the "result"? were there
some things that didn't ended up in the way you thought in the end or
happened all as it was planned?
orga.. definitely! it was in many ways a bigger success than pmp. for one i was
largely sober ;) secondly everyone helped out, even non-organisers! :)
everything ran smoothly i think.
ucm... were there some bad things in your mind, remembering back to those days
you would try to avoid next time?
orga.. well, for one, it's best to be a visitor i think, since work is never
fun. i'd just like to drop by without any obligations, have a chat, show
some screens, and that's all. but taking some of the credits for being
organiser of a successful event, isn't bad either. there were some shitty
things like some visitors refusing to pay and moments of pressure before
the compos, which to me, seemed unnecessary, especially seeing that all
people there are intelligent and friendly.
ucm... what do you think about the registered-users-only thing today? was it a
good choice? or would you try to get another location without room
restrictions next time, if there is a next time?
orga.. at first, it sounded a bit over-the-top, to be honest. why the hell go to
all this trouble to get visitors beds or breakfast, when this is really
rare at most parties? it seemed to work out, but indeed it was a lot of
extra trouble.
you need to do the administration and do some housekeeping. most people
seemed to appreciate this. maybe due to high average age these days ;)
ucm... what would you do in another way, if you will organize another event of
this size? or would you try to make a little copy of outline o4 then?
orga.. hhhhm, it's up to the others. i'd like to repeat something like this, for
me i think once a year is okay. but i don't know about the others, dforce
and havoc were under a lot of pressure. i understand why the eil
organisers refuse to do a yearly party.
ucm... in comparison with the error in line parties, the outline as well as all
other parties held between the eil events, weren't that stuffed with
demo releases. what do you think, is it a problem of the parties or more
a problem of the small capacities of the todays atari scene?
orga.. it's the even year problem! always in an odd year 95,97,99,01,03 there is
a big party with loads of releases and then active sceners are tired
afterwards and the following year is very quiet. anyway, seeing there
were about 60 - 70 visitors at outline, the amount of releases wasn't
bad.
ucm... so as the atari scene needs another regular event, will you try to create
an outline party series alike the eil parties then? after the first eil
the organizers were quite burned out and it wasn't save for long if there
will be a follow up.
orga.. would be great to do this, but i wonder... we shortly had the idea, if
eil should stop, to pick up where eil organisers left. but since that
idea nothing much has hapenned.. it would be a lot of work for sure..
ucm... and overall, did all of you the things they should or were there some,
that just liked it to be in the staff to stay over the others, harharhar
;) nope... just joking, but would you organize another event together in
this team or would you like to have some more helping hands?
orga.. it was a good thing others also helped, non-organisers like christin and
some non-scene friends. without them it would have really sucked. like i
said, actually, i don't really like organising, but it is nice to put on
your 'CV' ;)
ucm... at last, as we can't do brainstorming on that topic really, just tell us,
for everyone, what 5 things you liked most on that party...
orga.. the breakfast
meeting new people
the party place
flooding the pizza service
not having to code at a party ;)
ucm... any wishes or things you want to say to the crowd? so do it here now...
orga.. *blub*
ucm... ok, that is all for now, lay back and relax, a cool summer to everyone of
you and maybe we met another time again, as it wasn't possible for me to
come over this year... too bad, seems i missed something ;)
moondog of .tSCc.
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