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

[Rob Landley]

Who is the us in "let's"?  There's a pending August meeting...

Rob

On Thursday 20 July 2006 9:53 pm, Matt Arnold wrote:
> 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
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > 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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> > Never  bet against the cheap plastic solution.
> >
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