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

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!)

[#1 posted by Apreche , April 8, 2008 6:39 AM]

I was at Penguicon 2.0. It was a huge blast. I would definitely go back, except I live five hours further away than I used to.

[#2 posted by Zaren , April 8, 2008 6:55 AM]

Jeez, it's next weekend already? I've been meaning to go for years, as a) it's only a half hour or so away from where I live, and b) I know some of the staffers. Alas, time and funding are working against me again this year. I'll have to make a last grasp at trying to make it this time.

[#3 posted by beeman07 , April 8, 2008 12:16 PM]

It's official! I'm not a nerd anymore. I don't recognize the names of any of the Guests of Honor.

Oh, well, 29 years was a good run. I'll give up root access and turn in my proximity badge on my way out the door.

-Fred.