I welcome everybody's feedback for this! We had a programming meeting last night with the purpose of breaking out the function space into the various things that take a room for the whole weekend. So, it was not so much designing specific events. The plan could change, but currently the general blueprint is as follows.

Ballroom A: Big Top. The Big Top is the sort of place where you have--

• Opening Ceremonies
• Bruce Schneier Keynote "The Future of Privacy"
• Live Shadowcast of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Musical Episode"
• "A Shoggoth On The Roof"
• swordfighting demonstrations, a martial art performed with padded PVC safety swords

Ballroom B: Computer Lounge and Chaos Machine.

Ballroom C: Gaming. Half tabletop gaming, the other half would be live floor games like

• "Design Your Own Chess"
• floor-sized giant "Settlers of Catan"
• LARPs
• and so forth.

Assembly: Junkpile Wars; Yearbook Photography.

Maple A, Promenade East, Northfield Rooms: Breakout Rooms.

Maple B: Anime.

Maple C: Dealers.

Oak Room: Non-anime Film Room, sometimes Breakout Room.

• "When Things Get Small", a comedic documentary about nanotechnology
• Jay Maynard (the TRON costume guy from the Jimmy Kimmel Show), the great Luke Ski, and Tom Smith giving "TRON" the MST3K treatment
• Nick Sagan and John Scalzi providing a live commentary track for "Contact"
• microbiologists explaining the magnificent computer animation "Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell."
• HP Lovecraft Historical Society's "Call of Cthulhu" done as an authentic black-and-white silent film.
• Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning."
• Saving Star Wars."

Promenade West: Concerts.

• Tom Smith
• Luke Ski
• Clif Flynt
• Rob Balder
• Worm Quartet
• ... others

Board Room: Writer's workshop, coffee with a guest of honor.