[penguicon-general] State of the con -- nine months to go!

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On Saturday 15 July 2006 9:57 am, john guest wrote:
[snip]
>
> We have GoH's!  Besides Bruce Schneier, Randy Milholland, and John
> Kovalic, we now have Christine Peterson, the person who at a meeting a
> number of years back said, "Why don't you call it Open Source
> Software?"  She's also the founder and Vice President of the Foresight
> Nanotech Institute, and serves on the Advisory Board of the
> International Council on Nanotechnology, the Editorial Advisory Board
> of NASA's Nanotech Briefs, and California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on
> Nanotechnology.  We're really excited to have Ms. Peterson join our
> convention!  We're still awaiting confirmation on our author GoH, so
> stay tuned!

Sounds like a great group so far.  Nice work!
>
> We have Nifties!  I'd like to highlight just a couple --
> Former GoH, and gaming diety Steve Jackson will be returning and
> bringing his Chaos Toy.
> Author and screenwriter Nick Sagan will be joining us.  A solid
> professional on his own merits, he's also the son of cosomologist Carl
> Sagan.
> We have many more people joining us, so I can guarantee that we're
> going to have a fascinating mix of people.

Eric and I will of course be back, whether we are deemed official "Nifties" or 
not.

-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
of doubtful sanity."  --Robert Frost