[Board] Call for ConChair!

[Steve Gutterman]

Everyone,

The Penguicon Board is currently looking for people interested in being the
2010 Penguicon Convention Chair.  Yes, this is the person "in charge", the
one that organizes running the whole event for 2010.  If you've been
involved with Penguicon (or even if you haven't, but know about us and think
you would make a good candidate) please e-mail me and put your name in for
our consideration.  We will ask candidates to come to the September
Penguicon Board meeting to talk to us about why you think you would make a
good Chair for Penguicon 8.0, what you bring to the convention, and why
you'd have a boatload of fun doing it.

The key information:

The job: The convention Chair is responsible for everything having to do
with organizing, running, and surviving each year's Penguicon.  They have
complete authority over the convention, subject only to the Penguicon Bylaws
and the budget.  They solicit guests, find volunteers, organize departments,
arrange a hotel, filter suggestions, herd cats, and discourage programming
suggestions that would run afoul of either the fire department or police.
(Or, instead of discouraging them, they find a way to do them *without*
running afould of local laws!)  They also get to coordinate the work of
dozens of bright, motivated, fascinating and enthusiastic staff members, and
hopefully delegate most of the work to them.  For this massive and difficult
task, they receive no compensation, have to pay to attend the convention,
might possibly get an occasional thank you, and have the love of hundreds
upon hundreds of convention attendees that think that Penguicon is the
neatest thing since sliced bread, and actually probably a bit neater.

Applying: Send an e-mail with your name and contact information (e-mail and
phone, please) to me at this address: SteveGutterman at Hotmail dot com.  Do
this before September 13, 2008, at 3:00 PM, when we will ask you to talk to
the Penguicon Board about your interest in being the ConChair.  (The
location of the September board meeting will be named later.)

We very much encourage all interested to apply, and anyone interested in
talking to the candidates is invited to the September Board meeting.  (All
Penguicon Board meetings are open to all interested persons.)

Thank you!

Steve Gutterman
Penguicon Board Secretary

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"Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw
was losing." -- Morton Blackwell's "Laws of the Public Policy Process"
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