Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan.
Guests of honor are Wil Wheaton, Jane McGonigal, Rasmus Lerdorf, Jon "maddog" Hall and Sarah Hoyt. Hack of Honor is Candyfab.
Nifty guests include Steve Eley, Elizabeth Bear, Cherie Priest, John Scalzi, Megan Rose Gedris, Jason Dunstan, Mark Savary, Tom Smith, Luke Ski, Dual Core, Catherine Devlin, Kyle Rankin, Jorge Castro, Bill Childers and Eric Raymond.
What is Penguicon?
- More than 1,000 geeks who gather annually in southeast Michigan to celebrate
- science fiction and fantasy
- free and open source software
- and other geek interests
- A party in a hotel
- all weekend
- bursting with creativity and intelligence
- and free beer
- Packed with scheduled content
- crossing disciplines
- full of celebrities and experts
- opening the source of everything by teaching you HOWTO
- encouraging you, the attendees, to teach us what you know
- A half-dozen conventions combined. Mix and match a weekend that's just for you!
- See our new tour of the Penguicon "solar system"!
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Saturday's Hand-Off Meeting - the reminder and expansion. Randy B. 15 May 2009, 2:10 am
The Penguicon Handoff Meeting, dinner, and party will take place Saturday May 16 at Castle Bradaki in Livonia. Please feel free to send me an email to get directions if you need.
We will arrive at noon, as we tend to talk amongst ourselves before the meeting. At one pm we'll conclude business for Penguicon 2009. I will sign and hand over the Penguicon Conchair Pillow to our host Randy Bradakis, kicking off his meeting to focus our attention on the ongoing business of Penguicon 2010. That will probably take until five pm, I'm guessing. Afterward we will hang out and individually take care of anything left over from that.
This event is at least partly pot-luck. Penguicon is providing burgers (both meat & veggie), buns, chips, soda, and perhaps a little beer. If you'd like something else, please bring it. I never like to coordinate who's bringing what, because it just takes all of the fun and chaos out of the situation. But pot-luck is fun.
Since we're going for a noon casual meeting, followed by a 1pm traditional meeting, we're not planning on feeding everyone right then, we are planning on having dinner-time grilling. However, if you protest enough, we might be willing to let you come early and help us get ready in exchange for early grill-time and eating. Protest away!
We will arrive at noon, as we tend to talk amongst ourselves before the meeting. At one pm we'll conclude business for Penguicon 2009. I will sign and hand over the Penguicon Conchair Pillow to our host Randy Bradakis, kicking off his meeting to focus our attention on the ongoing business of Penguicon 2010. That will probably take until five pm, I'm guessing. Afterward we will hang out and individually take care of anything left over from that.
This event is at least partly pot-luck. Penguicon is providing burgers (both meat & veggie), buns, chips, soda, and perhaps a little beer. If you'd like something else, please bring it. I never like to coordinate who's bringing what, because it just takes all of the fun and chaos out of the situation. But pot-luck is fun.
Since we're going for a noon casual meeting, followed by a 1pm traditional meeting, we're not planning on feeding everyone right then, we are planning on having dinner-time grilling. However, if you protest enough, we might be willing to let you come early and help us get ready in exchange for early grill-time and eating. Protest away!
RSVP for Handoff Meeting Matt Arnold 13 May 2009, 9:29 pm
If you can, please RSVP to 
with whether you plan to visit his home for the Handoff Meeting on Saturday, so they can plan the food. Feel free to attend whether you RSVP or not, but we would appreciate the information.
with whether you plan to visit his home for the Handoff Meeting on Saturday, so they can plan the food. Feel free to attend whether you RSVP or not, but we would appreciate the information.
MPCon XXIV jer_ 9 May 2009, 4:30 pm
MPCon's summer LAN is taking place July 24-26. That's right, it's my birthday LAN, so you had better frickin' be there. There will be COD4, Quake Live, CSS 5v5, cash prizes, Jer pantless, Trackmania nations for me to lose at...and hell, I'll even give you a chance to kick my ass at a RTS (game to be named later) in 1-on-1 combat.* That's right, you have a chance to beat a dude who sucks at video games like he stole a car! I assure you, there is nearly a zero percent chance that you are worse than me, so it is a certain win.
In all seriousness, if you've heard me write about this before, then you know I'm not even a gamer and I absolutely love this event. It is a lot of fun, and I can't think of anywhere else where $25 gets you a chance to hang out with 300+ gaming geeks, free pizza, all the gaming you can manage, and a chance to watch me cock-punch Kenco12 when he's not looking.** That's right, he has NO FRICKIN' IDEA! Even better, in a nod to the good folks from Saturday Night Live, I'm going to wait until he's getting ready to take a drink..then BLAMMO!***
Still not sold? I'm pretty sure their network guy is handing out blowjobs.****
Come to the Eastern Michigan Student Center, pony up your $25, and rock out with the boys from MPCon (now with 95% less console kiddies!!!)
Go to their site for more information or to register and make sure you have a seat.
As always, I'm here to answer questions. Also as always, I'm probably making up the answers.
* Until I get tired of losing and cry or become violent
** I am probably not really going to do this
*** Okay, now that I've said this part, I really want to do this. I'm 20% more likely to do this now.
**** I don't think this is true. If it is, I'm first.
In all seriousness, if you've heard me write about this before, then you know I'm not even a gamer and I absolutely love this event. It is a lot of fun, and I can't think of anywhere else where $25 gets you a chance to hang out with 300+ gaming geeks, free pizza, all the gaming you can manage, and a chance to watch me cock-punch Kenco12 when he's not looking.** That's right, he has NO FRICKIN' IDEA! Even better, in a nod to the good folks from Saturday Night Live, I'm going to wait until he's getting ready to take a drink..then BLAMMO!***
Still not sold? I'm pretty sure their network guy is handing out blowjobs.****
Come to the Eastern Michigan Student Center, pony up your $25, and rock out with the boys from MPCon (now with 95% less console kiddies!!!)
Go to their site for more information or to register and make sure you have a seat.
As always, I'm here to answer questions. Also as always, I'm probably making up the answers.
* Until I get tired of losing and cry or become violent
** I am probably not really going to do this
*** Okay, now that I've said this part, I really want to do this. I'm 20% more likely to do this now.
**** I don't think this is true. If it is, I'm first.
Penguicon Handoff Meeting Matt Arnold 7 May 2009, 1:34 am
The Penguicon Handoff Meeting, dinner, and party will take place Saturday May 16 at Castle Bradaki in Livonia. Please email info at penguicon dot org for the address.
We will arrive at noon, as we tend to talk amongst ourselves before the meeting. At one pm we'll conclude business for Penguicon 2009. I will sign and hand over the Penguicon Conchair Pillow to our host Randy Bradakis, kicking off his meeting to focus our attention on the ongoing business of Penguicon 2010. That will probably take until five pm, I'm guessing. Afterward we will hang out and individually take care of anything left over from that.
Concluding in dinner, where Penguicon will provide some food, but you are all encouraged to bring some.
We will arrive at noon, as we tend to talk amongst ourselves before the meeting. At one pm we'll conclude business for Penguicon 2009. I will sign and hand over the Penguicon Conchair Pillow to our host Randy Bradakis, kicking off his meeting to focus our attention on the ongoing business of Penguicon 2010. That will probably take until five pm, I'm guessing. Afterward we will hang out and individually take care of anything left over from that.
Concluding in dinner, where Penguicon will provide some food, but you are all encouraged to bring some.
Penguicon Reports jer_ 7 May 2009, 1:31 am
Okay, I have created a form for submitting Penguicon reports over on iBloviate... this is a really quick, ugly, hack job. Please don't be a douche. :)
Fire away...
Fire away...
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