Sorry for any bad grammar ahead of time. I'm trying to type all of this before I forget any details.
Major problem: Very possible Mermania is not going to happen for 2018 and no one plan has went beyond talking stage.
Why is a problem? Everyone want to be a part of something big. A lot of us work hard to build ourselves and even brand ourselves. Some invited in new expensive tails. Some finally got their FinFolk and Merbellas tails and want to show them to the world. I personally want to rise in the community that I can handle anything straight from being a mertender, photographer, and even planner as that how I measure my success through the numbers of lives I make better. We got stories and we were hoping Mermania was where we can share interest and swim with a lot of other mers, merfolks.
What can YOU do? We need to take a whole new different approach. We got different skills and not all of us has money. As the Doctor on Doctor Who once said, he never seen anyone who wasn't important as everybody important. This is also very true in this case. We all should state our region and our strongest skills. We may have one of the unique convention network if we work together.
How: We all live in different regions and countries. We all different access to places and resources. My plan is at least 10 mer gathering to happen on the same day/weekend and using the power of the internet. We are in the social age so let's taken advantage of that and use what around us as not all of us can travel too far and people may be left out. Plus using the internet to connect each gathering allows us to use YouTube live features to bring awareness of the community to the world and each other gathering.
Details: No matter where you are in the world, there is always a hotel with a pool and meeting room. Every single hotel that has those has internet to enable live streaming in their meeting room. All it takes a chromecast, TV, and a camera/cell to live stream unto YouTube. We can feed into other mergathering on the same day with tutorial or a tail maker session on one gathering to the other so everyone benefits from a bigger convention resources even though we are a network of gatherings. No one misses courses unless they choose to. It's a can't lose situation. There was a recent gathering near here called Sandy Fins where that host had a couple classes on making jewelry and such. If someone else is having a gathering on that day, having that live stream to other gatherings will raise awareness to that Mermaid and her sponsorship will get national attention to other gathering as a place without having to put funds for travelling. Yes the host to that event hates me but she currently has the most recent experience to a gathering at the moment here in Florida. That can be an example of one of many gatherings use to network if she interested. Basically everyone focus on their pod to get a big gathering for their region and lets trade resources. The local YMCA here allows mermaids tails so it's a matter of all of us using what near us
Dates: The weekend July 28 or 29 is recommended but it's all up to the gathering to decide on what the most accessible days. I'm randomly picking that day as it's before back to school shopping and the one of the least eventful weekend in the year. I can add multiple dates on year if needed
Locations and Host: As people holds their own gatherings/conventions, I'll put their location and the host to that here. Hopefully this idea works and there will be a spot for everyone to go to that near them.
Suggestions: I can place people top suggestion and recommendation here to help with the networking. Like I said earlier, this is an idea and I don't even know it'll work but it's worth a try and we got almost a year to pull something off. I rather see something vs nothing at all.
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Originally Posted by AniaR
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