http://www.penguicon.info/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:42:01 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.penguicon.info/lib/images/favicon.ico http://www.penguicon.info/ http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/ecotrack Email Sparrow if you want to help with the Eco Track this year. ecogeek@penguicon.org 2010 Staff on Eco Track * Sarah (Sparrow) Slovik (Track Head) * James (Waldo) Hice (Track Assistant) Panelists * Sparrow Slovik * Tim Slovik * Doug Houseman * Geralyn Lance * Sarah Metzler * (more coming soon...) James H. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:37:42 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/sarahslovik Yay! I have my own Penguicon Wiki page... now if only I could find the content I intended to post. Until then... email me here: ecogeek@penguicon.org Sparrow Slovik people Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:51:42 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/staffmembers Description If the Convention Committee runs the convention, staffers are the muscles that move it along. Penguicon makes a distinction between Concom, Staff Members, Volunteers (Penguins), and Panelists (Program Participants). For this year, Staff will be considered those individuals who are responsible for doing work and making decisions for a single part of the convention and handling minor budgetary amounts. Typically staffers put in some amount of work before the con in addition to work du… Sparrow Slovik Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:42:43 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/minutes/2010-03-06-concommeeting Penguicon 2010 Concom Meeting March 6, 2010 06 March 2010 at Troy Marriott. Pre-meeting at noon, meeting promptly starts at 1pm. Meeting officially started at 1:10pm ConCom * Randy Bradakis - ConChair * Jer Lance - Facilities * Trevor “Helmut Newton” Jagoda - Programming * Micki Hedden - TalentWrangler * Chuck Child - Hospitality * Brian Decker - Registration * Amanda Long-Adams - Treasurer * Mara Tynan - Operations Jer Lance minutes Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:39 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/badgeribbons After acquiring your badge, you may come across people giving out BadgeRibbons, to be attached to your badge. Sometimes you may have to do something or participate in some ritual to acquire certain ribbons. Others are given away to pretty much anyone who wants them, while still others are used to signify membership in an Elite class, such as ConCom, ConChair, or HotelLiaison. Badge ribbons may be ordered before the con by contacting the RibbonWrangler. More information will be available as P… Randy Bradakis Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:29:08 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/markszlaga . Ron Blanchett people Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:05:06 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/hotelliaison Each year, a contract must be negotiated with a facility at which the con will take place. This has been, historically, at a hotel as so much of the event happens late and so many of our attendees reserve hotel rooms. The Hotel liaison's responsibility is to take care of said contract and ensure that both parties are satisfied; but that both parties honor their end of the agreement. It is a thankless job, but it has benefits. There is a lot of yelling involved. Jer Lance Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/marksavary Mark Savary is the creator behind the Autumn Lake webcomic and co-host of The Webcomic Beacon. According to Mark: “I was about four years old. I had inherited or been given a student desk (you know, the old kind with the hole in it for an inkwell). I was sitting there, and out of the blue, I said to myself, “I'm going to draw something.” Seriously, just like that. It was as if I had made some momentous decision, full of all the conviction and determination of a soldier, or a prizefighter, or a k… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:06:05 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/andrewplotkin Andrew Plotkin is a multiple XYZZY award-winning author of Interactive Fiction (aka “text adventures”). He pushes the boundaries of how to actively explore a dramatic narrative in works such as “Shade”, “Hunter, In Darkness”, “Spider and Web”, and “So Far”. He programmed the Glulx virtual machine for Interactive Fiction, and helps maintain the Interactive Fiction Archive. If you're new to Interactive Fiction and want to play it in your web browser, try his tutorial game “Dreamhold”.… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:04:26 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/steveeley Steve Eley is what you could call a Renaissance man of podcasting. He writes, edits, and produces podcasts on science fiction, horror, and fantasy as Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and PodCastle, respectively. Eley’s written a few pieces of this fiction himself, as well as one of the precursors to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:02:52 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/kylerankin Kyle Rankin is a systems architect for Quinstreet Inc.; the current president of the North Bay Linux Users' Group; the author of The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks; and a contributer to a number of other O'Reilly books. Rankin is a columnist for Linux Journal, has written for PC Magazine, TechTarget websites and other publications. He speaks frequently on Open Source software including at OSCON, Linux World Expo, SCA… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:01:15 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/jorgecastro Jorge Castro, former head of the Tech Track for Penguicon and an extremely popular tech presenter here, is External Projects Developer Liaison for Canonical, the company that leads development of Ubuntu Linux. He loves to write about GNOME, and has been a contributor to the GNOME Journal and Linux.Ars. Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:00:08 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/gregwilliams Greg Williams has worked as (among other things) a camp counselor, cop, armored truck driver, bill collector, helpdesk engineer, and technical manager, which all require dealing with hostile audiences and having a good sense of humor. Greg's undergrad degree was in Law Enforcement, with a minor in Theatre qualifying him to either be a cop, or on Miami Vice. (Hey, it was the 80's ok?) His unfortunate unappreciated career in community theatre forced led him into improv comedy, which he has been in… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:58:05 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/jimhall Jim Hall is best known as founder of the FreeDOS Project. Since 1994, Jim has been the project's coordinator and webmaster, helping build the FreeDOS developer community and the release of “FreeDOS 1.0” in 2006. FreeDOS now ships as an operating system option with several computer companies, including HP and Dell. More generally, Jim is a developer and an advocate of free / open source software, and has helped several companies release DOS applications under an open source license. As a develope… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:56:54 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/frankhayes PenguiCon 8.0 Bio: Frank Hayes: Filk musician. Tech journalist. Linux user. Alarm clock to the stars.Frank has been writing about technology almost as long as he’s been writing songs. He’s been a highly respected reporter for tech magazines and newspapers including BYTEand Computerworld, where his award-winning column “Frankly Speaking” ran for more than 12 years and was frequently translated into languages ranging from Spanish to Chinese and Hungarian. Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:54:58 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/dawnkuczwara Dawn Kuczwara's acting career began at birth, when she realized that PRETENDING various emotional states got her pretty much anything she wanted. These acquired talents served her well when, in second grade, she managed to win the lead part in the Christmas pageant, beating out the other cute blonde girl in the class for the part. It was all downhill from there. As a theater student in college, Dawn auditioned for, and won, the John Belushi Memorial scholarship from The Second City, and immediat… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:54:02 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/catherinedevlin Catherine Devlin is chair of PyOhio and a frequent speaker on Python. She trained as a chemical engineer at MIT, was kidnapped and enslaved aboard a C-programming galley, and was marooned for many years on the barren Isle of the Unending Doctoral Program. While bathing in the pleasant but ill-paid waters of the Secretarial Pool, she was mysteriously transformed into an Oracle Database Administrator. She discovered Python in 2003, and her creativity at finding excuses to incorporate Python into D… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:53:22 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/jasondunstan Jason Dunstan created Ardra in 2005. Despite several missteps along the way, the comic continues to gain in popularity (due in no small part to the work of his talented artist, Trevor Adams, and webmaster/story editor Fesworks). He created his webcomic out of frustration with the fact that stupid people breed far too often (a fact that one learns quickly when working in retail). A question entered his mind: What if a super-intellectual female scientist decided to have children, and raise them as… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:52:24 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/tomsmith The man who describes himself as a “Singer, dreamer, punster, flirt, and generally one of the most manic people in the history of SF Fandom” is coming to PenguiCon! And he's going to practice his filking at Warp Speed wiles on all of us. Its rumored that Tom can't spend more than ten minutes in one place without a new song popping out of him - on almost any topic you can imagine. Tom has also been compared (by Larry Niven) to Tom Lehrer, hopefully for the political and humor content of his songw… Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:47:06 +0000 http://www.penguicon.info/doku.php/people/lukeski “The Great Luke Ski”, otherwise known as Luke Sienkowski, writes, records and performs comedy music on a variety of pop culture subjects ranging from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars to Spider-Man and Keanu Reeves. Luke has enjoyed repeated success on “the Dr Demento Show”, by taking top honors with the #1 most requested songs of both 2002 (“Peter Parker”) and 2003 (“Stealing Like a Hobbit”), making him the first artist in 20 years to have the #1 song for two years in a row, as well as garnering … Micki Hedden people Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:39:05 +0000