program guide

[donastraya.livejournal.com]

I think it might be too early to ask, but has anyone seen a daily program/panel guide? i.e what time what panel is scheduled for

Comments

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

How is that any worse than people who are ALREADY making plans based on the provisional schedules on the track-specific websites?

Because it's understood that the schedules on the track websites are unofficial, provisional schedules. Posting them on the Dragon*Con website would give the imprimatur of finality to them, not matter how many times the page said "UNOFFICIAL PROVISIONAL SCHEDULES."

Heaven forbid Track A have an easy centralized way to see the provisional schedule for Track B so that they can work out conflicts BEFORE the scheduling dept plays roulette for them.

This is what the directors' meetings are for; there is an ENORMOUS amount of coordination that goes on behind the scenes. Scheduling issues basically boil down to "hey, that actor has another commitment at that time, we have to move that panel" (which can affect several other panels, for which we again have to check guests' schedules) and "wow, that panel really ought to be in a larger/smaller room, what have we got?" which, again, affects other panels. Anything that happens at the track-room level is basically unchanged from whatever the track director decides, but anything that happens in a ballroom goes in front of at least twenty peoples' eyeballs.