Hello, members of Concentric 2020, the 2020 Eastercon.
Work on the programme for the forthcoming Eastercon is progressing. The programme team rely on the members of the convention making themselves available to appear on the programme, and we have sent out over 180 programme participant surveys to people who have volunteered in this way.
A little over a quarter of those surveys have been returned so far. Many thanks for filling those in.
Please check your emails to see if you've received an invitation to complete a programme participant survey; it'll contain a link, and a five-digit "invitation code" to authenticate your identity and gain access to the survey. If you've received such an invitation, please visit the survey page and complete the questions you find there. It'll allow you to upload a picture of yourself and a mini-biography for the published programme, and provide us with more information about how you'd like to participate.
You can visit that survey page, using the same authentication information, multiple times. You can update your answers as you think of new things to include or change your mind about things you've already said.
If you'd like to appear on programme -- give a talk, join a panel, host a signing session or kaffeeklatsch, run a workshop or a game, or do something else like that -- and you haven't had an invitation to complete the survey, please get in touch by emailing programme@concentric2020.uk and ask for an invitation code and a link. Even if you've already been talking to one of the programming team, if you haven't had a survey and want to be on the programme please apply in this way -- it'll ensure that the team have your correct email address, and the correct spelling of your name. And it may remind them of a conversation that took place but later slipped their mind.
If you're not sure whether you've been invited or not, and you'd like us to send you the invitation code and link once again, then please email programme@concentric2020.uk and ask.
If you've received a link and a code and you've changed your mind and don't want to appear on programme after all, then please visit that link, enter the invitation code, and click on "decline invitation". We'll stop worrying about when your survey results will turn up and stop bothering you.
The programme team thank you for making yourself available for programme. We look forward to contacting you and making your appearance on programme possible.
Douglas Spencer (Doug S),
Concentric 2020 programme team.