Penguicon 6: free software and science fiction con near Detroit with Vernor Vinge

By at 10:48 pm Monday, Apr 7

Penguicon 6, the Detroit-area science fiction and free/open source software convention, is coming up soon! The guests of honor include Vernor Vinge and Jono Bacon from Canonical/Ubuntu. I attended one of these a couple years back and had a high old time: open source and science fiction go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

Tech Guest of Honor: Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical
Tech Guest of Honor: Benjamin Mako Hill - Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia
Author Guest of Honor: Vernor Vinge, Multiple Hugo winning science fiction author, computing visionary
Author Guest of Honor: Tamora Pierce, fantasy author, co-founder of Sheroes Central
Webcomics Guest of Honor: Randall Munroe of xkcd
Gaming Guest of Honor: Keith Baker, creator of Ebberon world for Dungeons and Dragons
Hack of Honor: The Giant Singing Tesla Coils

April 18-20/Troy, Michigan

Link (Thanks, Peter!)

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* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
* Feb 10-12, 2012, Chicago, IL: Capricon 32
* Feb 13, 2012, Arlington, TX: UT Arlington College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series
* Feb 16, 2012, Victoria, BC: 13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference

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* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)

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