15 Days and Counting

Hello Sportsing Fans, It is slightly over two weeks until the big day. We have done a lot of stuff to the website as you can plainly see and the amount of content is great for our 3rd year. We would like to thank all of our sponsors for contributing to our (hopeful) success. Panago RightStuf! Eleven Arts Rent-A-Centre Red Rage Comics Force Start Entertainment We also would like to thank our two Demonstrating martial arts teams for donating their time to present us awesome entertainment! Ka Muso Kai from Calgary will be doing weapons demonstrations for us and will be doing a large team demonstration outside in our green area at 1:30pm. Please feel free to check out all the site has to offer for information and we expect to have the schedule ready this weekend (as much as possible to this point). Thanks for sticking with us through the year! Krys

More site updates!

So we have gone ahead and done a massive update of vendors, artists and panels. We still have more to come so keep an eye on it :)

Some Important Stuff!

We could actually call this a major update. With the smallest post... We have filled in some content in the "PROGRAMMING" section. Go take a look at what you get to see and do while at the MHFRU. More to come I promise but having been working on a lot of MHFRU stuff as well as a meeting in a few hours and I still haven't had food of any kind yet - it'll have to wait, my darlings.

Website Updates Inbound!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have caught up on my first contact/confirmation of all exhibitors (except two from this past week) and I will be re-emailing them again to get “press kits” to fill up our sections.  These exhibitors are what we will be calling “semi-confirmed” as they have sent us a request form, we have received it, confirmed receipt and just require fee payment to ensure their appearance.

We are still in the process of confirming the 404s hence why they are not up on the site yet(unless something has changed without me knowing which can happen as I am not omnipresent).

We may also have a book author show up to do a panel.  Waiting for them to get back to us :)

We are still not setup for PayPal just yet.  We have an account but have to send some legal stuff to PayPal to confirm we are a not-for-profit group so that any funds going in we will actually be able to take out before a certain HUGE minimum is met.

Still focused on funding.  I’m currently applying for a grant for the MHFRU.  I stopped for a moment when I got hung up on a question I didn’t understand but my sister-in-law, who does this a lot for her job, explained it out for me.  We hope someone is willing to help fund us as it would really make me feel better and not mildly panicky in the night.

That is the big update of openness from us

Krys

First Post of 2014

 

Hello everyone,

Our poor lonely blog gets no love.  We have made a resolution to change that.  Any relatively meaningful update should from now on be posted on our blog and re-posted to the Facebook page.  Please remember we also have a wonderful website at MHFanRoundup.com.

Our website, as usual, is a work in progress that was slowed due to the inconvenience of having no computer capable of properly working with the site builder to update it.  This is going to change very soon.  I am still updating and installing programs to my computer including Adobe CS2 (it’s free, sign up and go get!).  I happen to be working the evening shift this week so I don’t have much time after work to really look at my computer except to click “install” or “update” buttons as needed and walk away.

So brass tacks time:

1. Anyone who has been waiting to hear from us in regards to a table at the convention will be contacted soon.  We are in the midst of creating a mailing list and a newsletter so we can mass contact everyone and then we will be able to have individual conversations going forward.  We want to make sure that everyone is on the same page with our first contact including acknowledgment that you have a table, payment information and potential an information packet on the venue or anything else that would be relevant for our vendors, artists and panelists.

2. Website update – I am a broken record with this.  I did some updates to the site, saved but did not publish.  We ran into a road block with PayPal that I need to finish sorting out.  I will remove those updates for now and complete the other updates around that.  These include: ticket prices, vendor/artist/panelist page updates, removal of meeting update section, adding of a different section (I forgot what it is but it’s important), probable removal of the social forum as no one is using it, various updates to the “information” section as a whole, and probably more.

3. We have had some success so far raising donations for the convention.  We are nowhere near where we need to be for funding so if anyone knows of a likely business to donate please let us know.  We will be heading out to mass attack more businesses in March.  We wanted to do February but schedules don’t match up.

4.  We are planning an event at Crave (in the MH College).  It is so far just an idea and we have no hard plans on it yet.  Likely to be discussed at our next meeting this Saturday.

5. Our next meeting is this Saturday, February 8th @ the Medicine Hat College Rom S141 6:30pm.  If you happen to come along (all our meetings are open to anyone who wants to come) and we don’t appear to be there please post to Facebook as sometimes we relocate to Starbucks where there is access to wifi and comfy seating.

This is all I can think of at the moment…more to come regardless!

Krys

Lords and Ladies of the Plains…

Potentially too much sugar has been had.

The site has now been updated with some new content:

Executives now have information updated on the About the Execs Page
Special Guests has been updated with Force Start Entertainment!
AMV Contest submission information has been added to Be Involved

So what have the execs been up to lately? 

Well, we had a minor set back with the exact location at the Medicine Hat College.  Due to renovations we have lost the S Wing and are currently scoping out other wings EXCEPT the F Wing.  Our feedback last year really didn’t like that wing and we honestly didn’t like it either.  We want to have a good flow this year so we are very concerned with where we will end up, however, the wings we are looking at are very promising (I’m in favour of the wing that has a perfect corner for our Zombie Maid Cafe!)

Besides that we are still trying hard to become a club at the College so we can gain some much needed benefits for fundraising. 

We are also accepting donations, sponsorships, volunteers and people interested in being executives.  Our staff is running a few less than last year and we would love to have some new input and help.  The 4 Horsemen are doing very well creating this Apocalypse on their own though.  Anyone interested in donating prizes or monetary funding can reach us via our Contact Us form.  If you know of a company that would like to sponsor us in exchange for advertisement space on the website and on our convention programmes that would also be most <Monty Burns Voice>excellent</Monty Burns Voice>.

In the works:

Anime Night at the Monarch!
Online Auction
MHFRU College Club
Website Updating
Lethbridge Expo!
Otafest Aurora (Just visiting no booth – maybe we can play “Where’s Waldo” with the Execs)

That is all my minions!

Krys (Sealed Evil in a Can aka Co-Chairman)

More to come!

 

Hello darlings,

So as we can see we have a website.  it’s heavily under construction right now but we will be filling it out as much as possible and as fast as possible in the next few weeks.  We are currently having an issue with the site’s various email addresses that we must correct so we ask that no one fill out any of our forms at this time because we cannot access the information.

Our next meeting will be October 5th with plans to bring some baked goods to the College to taste test and pick what would work well for the sale.  Because it’s October they may be Halloween themed

Also, we are going to have an online auction to help raise more funds for MHFRU 14.  If you would like to contribute for now please contact us via Facebook otherwise stay tuned for when the auction is ready to go!

As always suggestions are appreciated!

Krys