Musings on Con Scheduling

My mind has been digesting a discussion on the e-mail list where the people who often do a lot of work at Worldcon and other similar events hang out about scheduling of programming and key programming items.

Now, I've never tried to schedule or set up programming for any convention of significant size. (My one experience was for a con that never got off the ground, nor got to the point where we were actually trying to program our one track). So I'm talking without any experience, but here is how I might (in very broad strokes) schedule a Worldcon sized event -- that is a 3000-6000 person convention that runs over 5 days, with the first and last day being only half-days.
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