[penguicon-general] A couple of thoughts about programming

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 8:09 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 4:02 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:48 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:15 pm, you wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Webcomic artists are perfect for us.  It's squarely between tech and fen,
> > they've got a built-in way to advertise their appearance to their fan 
base,
> > and they generally enjoy the con.
> >
> > (They're also generally not media types where you need to wave around
> > thousands of dollars to get their attention, but give it 5-10 more years
> > and we'll see the Scott Adams/Jim Davis types emerge.  The Penny Arcade
> > guys are already nosing into that territory, and you could sort of 
consider
> > Dilbert to be a webcomic in the right light...)
> >
> > I'd love to invite the guy behind Irregular Webcomic, but he's in
> > australia. Rich Berlew of the Order Of the Stick 
(http://www.giantitp.com/)
> > isn't, though...
> 
> I'd like to see us invite the guy who does xkcd.

Already invited, and he expressed interest.  Nothing final yet I'm aware of.

> And how about the Megatokyo guy?

We had him year 2.  Came, did his panel, and went home without really seeing 
the rest of the con.

Rob