[IVFDF] Re: Content

[Pete Humble]

I've been watching this discussion without saying much so far and I've
come
to the conclusion that there are two "opposing" points of view.

The first one, from organisers, is that it is getting too big, too
complicated and too expensive to organise and needs to be scaled down in
some way.

The second one, from festival attendees, is that it is the current format
that attracts them so much, and that they would be much less likely to
attend a scaled down festival.

>From what I know of each side, both are correct:
the only way the succeed is to keep it as it is AND the only way to
succeed
is to cut it down drastically.

I suspect that there is much discussion necessary to come to a workable
solution.  However, things that must be born in mind are: if the festival
is
cut back, it will become a very different beast, very much smaller and
probably with only people from the local area attending.  If it is to
remain
a national, reasonably sizeable event, some way has to be found of keeping
it a weekend event with sufficient events to attract people who have a
long
distance to travel.

I do, however, worry that the two sides have incompatible
desires/requirements and that one has to effectively "lose" if the other
is
to get anything approaching what they want.

Would I go to a small festival based on current IVFDF?  I might, but only
if
it were local.  To attract me to travel hundreds of miles, it would have
to
have a good couple of days of events that I wanted to participate in.

As to where it should be sited, that is less clear.  The big advantage of
it
moving from place to place is that it is "fair" - some people have a long
journey some years and a short one other years and different people take
on
the organisation.  If it is sited in one place all the time it might be
much
easier to organise because the team doing it build up expertise and
contacts, and the site becomes well known.

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