[Board] Fwd: Re: Would you like to be a Guest of Honor at Penguicon 5?

[Matt Arnold]

I would not invite her for 2008 at this time. Let's talk about this
tomorrow night and I'll tell you my reasons.
-Matt

On 7/20/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> Finally heard back.  She's interested, but swamped.  Should I invite her for
> 2008?
>
> Rob
>
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> Subject: Re: Would you like to be a Guest of Honor at Penguicon 5?
> Date: Thursday 20 July 2006 6:58 pm
> From: TamPierce at aol.com
> To: rob at landley.net
>
> Dear Rob,
>
> Thank you so much for inviting Tammy to be the guest of honor at  Penguicon.
> It sounds like a truly great event.  Unfortunately, Tammy says that she is
> consumed with regret, but that her month  of April 2007 was gone by April
>  2006! She is deeply honored, and  only wishes she could have come.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sara  Alan
> For Tamora Pierce
> _www.tamorapierce.com_ (http://www.tamorapierce.com/)
> www.SheroesCentral.com
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/28/2006 10:06:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> rob at landley.net writes:
>
> Penguicon is a combination Science Fiction Convention and Linux Expo,  April
> 20-22, 2007 in Troy, Michigan.  It's a lot of fun, and we'd  like to invite
> you to be a Guest of Honor.
>
> Guest of Honor means all  expenses paid, plane ticket, hotel room,
> transportation to/from the  airport, meals etc.  (There's no speaker's fee
> though, this is a  hobbyist event.)  We put you on anywhere from 6 to 10
> panels
>
> We have the standard convention activities you're used to: panels,  dealer's
> room, masquerade, anime room, gaming, readings, filk,  signings...  We also
> have free 802.11b wireless internet access, and  some of the panels are about
> Linux.  Plus we have live swordfighting  demonstrations, liquid nitrogen ice
> cream (and a hot sauce tasting, sushi  making tutorial...  We're organizing a
> whole "food track" this  year.)  And we've decided that to balance the Rocky
> Horror Picture  Show you also have to have a Buffy Singalong.  (A Buffy the
> Vampire  Slayer Musical Episode Sing-along, sort of the anti-rocky as it
> were.
> We schedule both.)  We have charity auctions sometimes, we did one  for the
> Comic Book Legal Defense fund and another for the Electronic  Frontier
> Foundation.  (Generally a charity one of our GoHs is  interested in.)
>
> At Penguicon, we mix science fiction with real  technology, which means that
> in
> addition to the traditional readings and  signings we have crossover events.
> When we got Terry Pratchett as a  GoH one of the things we asked him to do
> was
> play first person shooters  (Unreal Tournament, capture the flag mode)
> against
> our other Guests of  Honor.  (He came in second.)  We once had a panel
> titled "blogs  as literature" with Neil Gaiman, Steve Jackson, and Jeff Bates
> (one of the  co-founders of slashdot).  On the geek side we had Eric Raymond
> (founder of the Open Source Initiative) write and present an essay on the
> history of science fiction, and at the most recent one Chris DiBona
> (Google's
> Open Source Program Manager) spent most of his free time playing  "are you a
> werewolf" in the game room.  (I'd like to point out we  didn't actually
> _schedule_ him for that...)
>
> If you saw the video of  liquid nitrogen going into a swimming  pool:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/18/liquid_nitrogen_meet.html
> that  was us.  (It's me holding the bowl, and Howard Tayler of the webcomic
> Schlock Mercenary recording the event.)  The reason we ordered a 180  liter
> tank of liquid nitrogen for the weekend was for the aforementioned  ice
> cream,
> but on Sunday the ingredients ran out before the liquid  nitrogen did so we
> threw some of what was left in the hot tub, and then we  got the _big_ bowl
> and Howard went to get his camera ...  We'll  probably do it again this
> coming
> year.
>
> One of our more notable  panels last year was "Tea Parties in Science
> Fiction",
> which John Scalzi  explains far better than I could, and even has an audio
> recording  of:
> http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004165.html
>
> There's also the  Chaos Machine, which is sort of a cross between an erector
> set, pachinko  machine, model trains, modular office shelving, and a chaos
> machine:
> http://www.combatcamerastudios.com/penguicongal.php
>
> I  mentioned Howard Tayler, who was in charge of the Chaos Machine and whose
> writeup of the weekend is  here:
> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/21/penguicon-day-0
> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/22/penguicon-day-1
> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/23/penguicon-day-2
> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/25/penguicon-day-3
>
> And  lots of photos with descriptions  here:
> http://matt-arnold.livejournal.com/126342.html
>
> (It's not that  this past year was more notable than previous years, we're
> just
> getting  better at recording the goings on.)
>
> Our confirmed guests so far this  year are Bruce Schneier (author of "Applied
> Cryptography"), Randy  Milholland (author/artist of the webcomic "Something
> Positive"), and John  Kovalic (he does everything, you may have heard of his
> comic "The Dork  Tower", or the games "Apples to Apples" and "Munchkin"...).
> Steve  Jackson and Eric Raymond are returning too (sort of a GoH Emeritus),
> and  we have more invitations outstanding (like this one).
>
> The website is  http://www.penguicon.org
>
> So, does this sound like  fun?
>
> Rob
>
> P.S.  The cc: is John Guest, this year's con  chair.  I'm just co-founder of
> the event, I try not to have any  responsibility anymore.  I want to _go_ to
> the thing.
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