[Penguicon-Concom] Program book comments.

[Rob Landley]

I dunno if these are still useful, but:

I posted about this on the penguicon livejournal community when I got John's 
first email, and despite the instructions some people are posting stuff to 
comments there.  (Sigh.)

http://community.livejournal.com/penguicon/23579.html

>From my quick read (don't have time to go through the whole thing tonight):

No Nifty entry for Howard Tayler?

Howard Tayler is a professional cartoonist, the creator of 
www.schlockmercenary.com.  In a previous life he headed up of Novell's 
GroupWise for Linux.  He also invented the Chupaqueso, is an expert on the 
Chaos Machine, and filmed the liquid nitrogen going into the swimming pool at 
last year's Penguicon.

Why is Sal of Aegis not a nifty?

Page 4: after "Anime, cheese tastings, port tastings" possibly you should 
add ", Random Capitalization", because there is.  (If you've got it, flaunt 
it.)

Page 6, SFOHA: "including some from the first Penguicon, last year!"  Ummm... 
What?

(Aside: We're recording our own darn panels because I've been unable to get 
copies of anything back from these guys to put on our website.  Good to hear 
they're back, nothing against 'em, but so far it's been pretty much 
write-only.  I've got five little digital recorders right now and am trying 
to get a sixth, and this has nothing to do with SFOHA.)

Page 10, Gaming is not a day care service: Neither is the Chaos Machine.

Page 16: your "most recently" about Eric Raymond is out of date.  He handed 
off Bogofilter and fetchmail to other maintainers years ago.  More recently 
gpsd takes up most of his hacking time, and most recently he became addicted 
to (and subsequently joined the development team of) Battle of Wesnoth.

Page 19: Elizabeth Bear is a nifty as well as a GoH?  (She's attending twice?  
Are we talking time travel here, or cloning?)

Page 28: Please change "this topic intentionally left blank" to "The Economics 
of Open Source", panelist Eric Raymond, blurb "The author of The Cathedral 
and the Bazaar is writing a new paper on why commoditization is an imperfect 
metaphor for the impact of open source on the software industry, and instead 
we should talk about the benefits of modularization."

Page 32: The sushi making demo is hosted by Molly de Blanc.

Page 34: Tron is an hour and a half long, not half an hour.  It goes until 
7pm.

Page 35: Gurps Bunnies and Burrows is 3 hours, not 1.  Goes to 9 pm.  (It's in 
here more than once, listed in 1 hour chunks, but you probably can't jump in 
in the middle.)

Page 36: Version control with Git is here, and it's also on page 38.

Ok, there's my one email.

Rob
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