WASFF WANTS YOU!

[callistra]

One of the things I want to look at this year in WASFF is how WASFF can benefit YOU.

What I want from you today is your wildest ideas on how WASFF can benefit you, and your fandom life. WASFF is here to promote SFF in WA, and to that end I am looking for more ideas on the things we can do, and the structures we can put in place to help YOU do stuff.

So, your wildest ideas please!

Random thoughts that have cropped up:

- Grants like systems (intangible return, or creative work returns)
* grant for a writer to attend a writing course and in return produce a text
* grant for artist to purchase goods and in return produce an artwork to be displayed at Swancon/something
* grant for a theatre production to be done at Swancon
* grant for independant presses to produce something showcasing local talent
* strengthen and stabilise the Swancon Short Story Competition
* strengthen and stabilise the Swancon Art Competition
* WASFF Short story competition to be held 6 months after Swancon one, with similar prize money
* Subsidy for WA person to go to Clarion, Clarion South, or Clarion West
* work in tandem with the KSP or other writers groups for awards nights or something
* funding for awards night(s)
* WASFF donations to GUFF, DUFF, NAFF, TAFF, FFANZ, whatevs
* donations to ensure creche and children's stream is financially stable and strengthened at all WASFF events
* Entertainment Books

- Grantslike System where the grant is expected to be returned (ie, a budget and etc is expected)
* small convention development (look at what stops people from doing this, and try to streamline)
* WASFF publications (short story winners? Something else?)
* Projects ie someone wants to run ie a writer's workshop, can apply for a loan

If you have any wild, wild ideas, please let me know. You can either comment below for discussion, or else email me at callisto at g mail dot com. I know I am missing heaps, so please give me your thoughts!

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

What I would like WASFF to do above and beyond anything else is establish a proper, well thought-out, well funded grants scheme for science fiction, fantasy and horror art works in WA. It could be funds to publish a small press anthology, or to produce a short film, or make a comic book, or hold an art exhibition. But a proper fund, with a properly appointed assessment panel, and proper key performance indicators.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of this comes under part 2 of my post of a grants-like system with an expectation of return.

I am hoping to have KPIs and etc organized, so specifics would be awesome as to how we can do that.

Would the KPIs be the same for evert type of that project - ie, if we use a theatre grant for example, someone who wants to put on a proper play in a proper play house will need considerably more money than someone we're funding to put on a 40 minute play in a Swancon slot. Yet as theatre productions they would be under the same grant slot, one play would be expecting to handle money/charge for tix and the other would not.

Did I just answer my own question then?
:-)

I guess if I create a dichotomy key, and then look at the way people want to run projects from that... but I still need to know what sort of projects people want to run, which is the point of this post, rather than structure or framework.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I think KPIs would need to be set individually for each project by a funding subcommittee. So if it was a play it would have to be X performances to Y people, etc. If it was an anthology it might have to include X Western Australian authors, and Y new authors, etc.

I think it's always important with this sort of thing to demand the recipient actually submits a report at the end of their project detailing exactly how the money was spent and what the results were.