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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 837824" data-attributes="member: 87">A visit at the convention centerFirst, thanks to all of you who have volunteered to help out.  I'll keep your names in mind when I actually do choose personel, but I need to gather some more information before I say yea or nay to anyone's help.  Kid Charlemange pointed out how convention rules work into things, funding concerns - I have all these in mind and I'm getting myself in the business of finding out.Anyway, as part of that I visited the Indy convention center to take a look at the White River Ballroom.  It's nice and roomy, but it does have two columns coming down almost into the center of the room to support the weight of the football stands above.  Shouldn't be a problem for our little show/get together.I now know what is in the room for certain.  There is one front of house lighting boom which had 7 fresnels and 4 parcans mounted but out of use in a default spread configuration for the stage.  There is a projection screen already mounted off stage right and I though I saw an alcove in the ceiling where a camera would be mounted for that screen (I was looking into the room from the hallway - there was a banquet in progress I did not want to disturb).  In your an Indiana Colts football fan you've seen the stage of this room - it is used for after game press conferences - so the hookups should be adaquate.  The convention center is literally littered with internet hookups.Now just because the equipment is there does not mean it can be used - it belongs to the convention center and they may wish to charge an extra fee for it's setup and use.  I will stress out here that I prefer to use equipment provided by the convention center if economically feasable to do so instead of having folks bring their own stuff because the last thing I want to have happen is for someone to bring an expensive piece of gear and have it damaged or stolen.From my lookover of the ballroom it appears more than adequate for what I would like to see done this year and its setup.  That said, I need to confer with our Gencon hosts, Morrus and the Indianapolis Event Coordinator for Gencon (the person who acts as a liason between Mr. Adkinson's personell and the Convention Center's personell).</blockquote>

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