Programming
Non Computer Gaming and Anime Programming have separate schedules and are not recorded in detail here.
The programming on this page is devided by day; Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Date: 21-Apr-2006
Renaissance A 4:30 pm - 3
hours
Monroe April LUG Meeting:
Cantenna Construction
ConSuite 5:00 pm - 1 hour
Liquid Nitrogen
Ice Cream
Rob Landley
Join co-founder Rob Landley as he
creates custom forms of liquid nitrogen ice cream for your flavor enjoyment.
Come for the show, stay for the ice cream.
St. Claire B
FUD, Monoculture and
Monopoly in Software and Medicine
Carl G. Medwedeff
FUD means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Famed as a tool used by Microsoft in maintaining their desktop monopoly, its use tends to characterize commercial software. Is FUD also characteristic of our medical system/industry, and if so, how?
The Pit
Got Filk?
Tom Smith, Rob Balder, Frank
Hayes
WARNING: Not For the Humor Impaired. So what the hell is filk, and why
should you care? These three humorists and musicians distill over 30 years of
musical history into a one-hour discussion.
St. Claire A
Getting Started in Writing
Steve Miller, Sharon
Lee, Sarah Zettell, Diane Frkan
Experienced and new authors discuss their
process -- starting with a blank page.
St. Claire B
PartiallyClips
Rob Balder
PartiallyClips has no storyline. No characters. And author Rob
Balder doesn't actually draw anything. It is also an astoundingly funny
webcomic. Come hear Rob tell you how he does it.
The Pit
Schlock Mercenary
Howard Tayler
Welcome to the
31st Century! Howard talks about his popular web comic Schlock Mercenary, which
he describes as a "comic serial space opera". Let him tell you about
his world, and what it's like to quit your day job and do what you love.
Renaissance C1 & C2
Wedding: Moonbeam
and Daniel Nance!
Daniel Nance and Moonbeam
All family, friends, and close acquaintances of
Daniel Nance and Moonbeam are invited to come witness and celebrate their
wedding.
Small is Beautiful. Embedded technology coming to the desktop.
Rob Landley, Karl Schroeder
Big bloated environments like Gnome and KDE take up valuable space on a live CD, and have trouble fitting on a handheld at all.
St. Claire B
MONO & ASP.NET
Jay R. Wren
The Pit 7:00
pm - 1 hour
How to Throw Room Parties
Rachel Weisenfeld, Joe Saul, Bill Putt, Cathy Raymond, Mark Miller
Is there more to a convention room party than chips, dip, cheap beer, and
people? Unquestionably yes. How do you throw the room party people will talk
about all con? Ask our panel of experienced party hosts. Audience members will
be given ballots to vote for Best Penguicon Room Party of the year.
Holidome Patio
Black Sweater Party
Wear comfortable clothing,
please. Be prepared to move around, learn, and have fun. Hands-on SWAT
team-style building clearing and hostage rescue simulations with the Aegis
Consulting Staff.
Renaissance A & B 8:00
pm - 1 hour
Opening Ceremonies
Guests of Honor Chris DiBona, Frank Hayes, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller,
with Andy, Kristen and Allison Looney
See all the Guests of Honor! Hear about
convention highlights! Find out where we keep all the food! See if this year's Conchair
proposes to anyone!
Penguicon Writing Workshop Pt 1
Michael "Freon" Andaluz, Michael Williamson, Williams Aksell, Anne Zanoni
Local SF writer Michael "Freon" Andaluz introduces the "Writing Genome" - structure, sequence, and a homebrew method to construct and analyze your SF/F literary creation. Stick around, because critiques collected ahead of time for the Sanctuary Press Second Annual Penguicon Workshop are being given to workshop attendees now for their third draft makeover.
St. Claire B
Asterisk and Cisco
Rick Lull
Pool
Noodle Wars
Come and bring your Noodles
of Mass Destruction to the pool party. No pasta allowed.
Renaissance A & B
Unholy Trinity
Concert
Frank
Hayes, Tom Smith, Luke Ski
Three brilliant filkers. Three different styles. One
big concert. One of the don't-miss events of the convention.
Renaissance C1
Intro to Penguicon: Geek, Fan,
or Both?
Tracy
Worcester, Seth Breidbart, Matt Arnold, Rob Landley, Chuck Firment
Are you new
to conventions? A guide for newbies for surviving and thriving in a convention
atmosphere. This is the panel that answers the questions: where to go? What to
see? and what to do? AND, anything you want to know.
Renaissance C2
Imagining the
Future: When Weed is Legal
Andy Looney, Eric Raymond
Drug-Peace activists believe that legalization
is inevitable, and that the Drug War, like Prohibition, will end eventually.
But what then? What would legalization look like? Andy discusses 7 ways
pot-smoking could be tolerated by future societies, under different models of
decriminalization.
St. Claire A
How Linux is Doing
Chris DiBona, Cathy Raymond
Is the fabled Linux desktop right
around the corner? Is Linux maintaining is competition on servers? What happens
if the concept of "the operating system" itself becomes obsolete?
Linux is inside more devices than ever before. Find out the public awareness of
Linux, and how it stands today and for the future.
St. Claire B 9:00 pm - 1 hour
DVD Authoring with
Linux
Kyle Rankin
In this talk I discuss how to create your
own custom video DVD using Open Source tools--no XML editing required!
The Pit
Good, Bad or Indifferent:
The New Dr. Who
Michael Marcus, Marshal Newrock, Sarah Zettell, The Ferrett
Is the new Dr. Who
living up to the series reputation or down to it?
ConSuite 10:00 pm - 1 hour
Liquid Nitrogen
Ice Cream
Rob Landley
Convention co-founder goes for round
two of ice cream creation? What classic and/or bizarre flavors will he make
this time?
St. Claire A
Eww! Gross! Real life
stories from the ER
Manya Newton
Real life stories from an ER Doctor. Pictures to be shown are definitely
not for the squeamish. Attendance by children is discouraged.
St. Claire B
Ubuntu: Linux for
Human Beings
Jorge
Castro
Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with
both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community
and we invite you to participate too! In this talk I will cover the basics of
Ubuntu, its philosophy, its community, and I will preview the upcoming features
of the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06 (The Dapper Drake Release). Free CDs will be handed out, and members of the local
Ubuntu Detroit team will be available for tech support and answering questions.
Users of all skill levels are invited to visit, especially if you're new to
Linux.
The Pit 10:00 pm - 2 hours
Lojban
Matt Arnold
This year Penguicon is hosting an intermittently-held gathering of
speakers of Lojban, an artificial language with a grammar based on formal logic
systems, speakable by humans and potentially by computers, designed from an
engineering standpoint for functional elegance. A project by a volunteer
organization of linguists and logicians that has stretched over five decades
and survived an intellectual property dispute. The celebration will go on all
weekend, but at this presentation come and take a look under the hood of the
most sophisticated toolkit for expression that a geek could desire.
Holidome Patio
Pirate Free For All
Hosted By Aegis Consulting
Captain your ships through cannon-fire and free ports for profit and adventure!
Join us for Pirates! the collectable card game by Whizkids Games! Cards will be
provided.
Renaissance A
Buffy the Musical
Not familiar with Buffy: The
Vampire Slayer? Have you been living under a rock? Come see the famed musical
episode both on-screen and with our very own Live Cast.
St. Claire A 11:00 pm - 1 hour
Java Virtual Machine
Fusion
John Catherino
Come learn about the cajo project, free
software enabling machines ranging from mainframes to mobile phones to
spontaneously discover each other, and form a seamless computing collective.
Build applications using multiple machines, every bit as easily as one.
Transparently remote sophisticated Graphical User Interfaces, and dynamically
script cooperation between machines. See what "the network is the
computer" really means, it sure ain't Web 2.0.
St. Claire B
Git
Ryan Anderson
The Git
distributed revision control system has come a long way in the last year of
development. This covers a brief history, a tutorial of the basic commands used
daily, and some of the advanced tools built on top.
Renaissance C1
Chocolate Ritual
Lady Sarah, Frank Hayes
Ever thought chocolate should be a religion? Come join us as we invoke
chocolate in all its forms, directions, elements, and any other variation we
can think of. Not for those inclined to take their religions too seriously,
unless that religion is the Holy Cocoa.
Renaissance A
Worm Quartet Concert
Shoebox
Worm
Quartet is a Rochester, NY-based band that forcibly staples punk and
electronica together and throws them into a blender with hysterically
twisted lyrics. They have been featured repeatedly on the Dr. Demento
show, and had the most requested song of 2004 with the ex-girlfriend
rant "Great Idea For A Song" and the 2nd most requested song of 2002
with the anti-drummer anthem "Frank's Not In The Band Anymore." The
sole member of Worm Quartet is a 6'4" 300-lb. bemulleted maniac named
Shoebox who is under court order to stay away from chickens.
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Date: 22-Apr-2006
Renaissance B 10:00
am - 3 hours
Junk Pile Wars
Tom Skelton
A small mountain of random computer
components. And a challenge. Will you and your team rise to it, and overcome?
Renaissance C1 10:00 am - 1 hour
Greet the Day:
Coffee Ritual
Matt Arnold, Andrea Dale
For those of you
inclined to worship the Holy Liquid, come join us for celebration and partaking
of the holy substance. Debate denominational variants such as honey versus
sugar, the unorthodoxy of flavored creamer, or state your devotion to the
pristine blackness.
Renaissance C2 10:00 am - 1 hour
Bird Flu: Threat,
Hype, or Both?
Daniel Peisach, Manya Newton
Get the rundown
on the epidemiology and science of H5N1, the infamous Bird Flu, and an
intelligent discussion of whether any of us need to be concerned.
The Pit
Intro to Penguicon: Geek, Fan,
or Both?
Tracy
Worcester, Shay VanZwoll, Jeff Beeler, Seth Breidbart, Rob Landley
Are you
new to conventions? A guide for newbies for surviving and thriving in a
convention atmosphere. This is the panel that answers the questions: where to
go? What to see? and what to do? AND, anything you want to know.
Renaissance A 10:30:00am - 1.5 hours
From Closed Windows
to Open Source
Greg Barker
What's different? What's the
same? This session will focus on key areas that will help the new user's transition
from Windows to Linux less frustrating.
Renaissance C1
Welcome to Liad!
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller,
Susan Harris, Tracy Worcester
"If a Liaden hands you a contact don't sign
it. If he won't sign yours, walk away." An introduction to the complex and
exciting Liaden universe created by our author Guests of Honor, Steve Miller
and Sharon Lee.
Renaissance C2 11:00 am - 1 hour
Writing and the Art
of Characterization
David Klecha, Sarah Zettell, Nancy
Zettell, Tobias Buckell
Ever read a book which had an interesting world and a
good plot, and you didn't give a damn about anyone in it? Our panelists discuss
how to make characters real, and make your readers care if they live or die.
St. Claire A 11:00 am - 1 hour
What's new with the
Linux Kernel?
Rob Landley
The Linux kernel has seen as much
new development since 2.6.0 shipped as occurred in the last "development"
series. How does the new development model work, and what are the results?
St. Claire B 11:00 am - 1 hour
Introduction to
Knoppix
Kyle Rankin
This would preferably go before any other
Knoppix talks I might give. It gives a general overview of what Knoppix is
suitable for beginners.
Renaissance A 12:00 pm - 1 hour
Techniques in 3-D
Illustration
Tom Peters
Tom plans to demonstrate digital
illustration workflow using both 3-D and 2-D techniques, primarily 3-D. Tom has
done cover art for Guests of Honor Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Renaissance C1
Building a Better
Mouse: Transgenic Research
Saumya Vanderwyst
An overview on mouse genetics and what we need 'em
for.
Renaissance C2
Heinlein 101
Susan Harris, Barbara Trumpinski-Roberts,
Greg Barker
Not familiar with the "old guys" of science fiction?
Who's Heinlein, you say? Oh, you lucky person - hours of entertainment await
you.
Terse Languages
Seth Breidbart, Eric Raymond
St. Claire B 12:00 pm - 1 hour
System Rescue with
Knoppix
Kyle Rankin
A more advanced talk dealing with
different methods of rescuing Linux and Windows systems using Knoppix.
The Pit
Why don't those @#$%!
reporters get
Linux and open source?
Frank Hayes, Diane Frkin
Why is open source to hard for reporters to
understand? Is it deliberate, or a horrible mistake? A look at how to present
open source news in ways more likely to get an accurate recounting.
ConSuite
Liquid Nitrogen
Ice Cream
Rob
Landley
Watch the co-founder of Penguicon create more weird and tasty goodness in classic mad
scientist fashion.
Renaissance A
Tom Smith Concert
Tom Smith
It's Tom Smith,
for ghod's sake! He's funny! He's fast! He's witty! He's poignant! Go, listen,
and have fun.
Renaissance B
Chris DiBona Keynote
Chris DiBona
Technical Guest Keynote by Google's own Chris
DiBona!
Renaissance C1
Technical Writing
Clif Flynt, Andrea Dale,
Tobias Buckle
If you want users to Read the F^&*( Manual, you have to write it in a way they can
understand. Our panelists discuss how to take a topic you know well, and
explain it to someone who, well, doesn't.
Renaissance C2 1:00 pm - 1 hour
Webcomics: Haves and
Have Nots
Howard Tayler, Rob Balder, The Ferrett, Eric Milliken
As webcomics begins its second decade as a medium, the vast majority of web
traffic still is directed toward a tiny fraction of all titles. What do the
disparities in traffic numbers indicate about art, society, entertainment, and
free choice?
St. Claire A 1:00 pm - 2 hours
Penguicon Writing
Workshop Part 2
Michael "Freon" Andaluz, William Aksel Kuehl, Michael Z Williamson, Sarah Zettell
The Writers
Workshop gets down to business with a round-table discussion of proposed
rewrites. We'll also discuss the well-known workshops like Clarion and Odyssey,
and meet a few industry luminaries in the SF/F biz. We use the rest of the
evening to hammer out third draft rewrites for Part 3 on Sunday. Semi-closed
session - come if you are serious about your fiction and we will all be
rewarded.
St. Claire B
BSD
Marcus Watts, Steve Andre'
This year our moderators are going to do a bit more of a hands on thing. They
will be bringing in an older dell, installing OpenBSD on it, configuring it as
a firewall, and demonstrating it as such with a windows machine on the
"inside" and some interesting exploits on the "outside".
The Pit 1:00 pm - 1
hour
Worldbuilding
Steve Miller, Karl Schroeder, Nancy Atwell, John Scalzi
Some worlds you
believe in, and some interfere with the story. How to build and portray your
fictional world.
Holidome Patio
Rappelling Demo
Victims don’t
look up -- don’t let us land on you! Hosted
by Aegis Consulting.
Renaissance C1
Getting to and
Living on Mars
Anton
VanderWyst, Saumya VanderWyst
An aerospace professional and a
professional biologist address the questions: What would it take to get humans
to Mars? Once there, what biological hurdles would we have to overcome to live
there?
Renaissance C2
Anatomy for the Fan
Artist
William
Aksel Kuehl
Tried to draw something involving the human body, but just couldn't get
it quite right? Artist William Aksel shares tips and tricks for getting it
right. Bring pencil and paper, as a model will be provided.
The Pit
History of Hot Peppers
Eric Raymond, John Guest,
Howard Tayler
Can't tell a jalapeno from a habanero, but always wondered? These
three capsaicin fans can take you on a journey through the wide world of hot
peppers.
Renaissance A
Collaboration;
writing a deux
Steve Miller, Sharon Lee
The trials, tribulations, and unique victories of
creating a shared universe. Creating a coherent world and consistent characters
with shared brainpower.
Renaissance B 02:30:00pm - 1 hour
Dancing for Geeks
Anne Murphy, Greg Barker, Karen Wasielewski
You know you
want to learn, but you don't know where to start. A low stress and low pressure
chance to learn some dance basics.
St. Claire B 02:30:00pm -
1.5 hours Jorge
Deploying and
Administering Linux Desktops with GNOME and Sun Ray Thin Clients
Castro Thin Client technology is a cost effective means of
deploying large numbers of desktops to users while providing ease of
administration for your IT staff. In this talk I will cover the prototype
deployment of Sun Ray thin clients at
ConSuite
Hot Sauce
Tasting
Eric
Raymond, Howard Tayler, John Guest, Michael Marcus
Missed the History of Hot
Peppers panel? Consider this the lab section. Learn how much heat you can take,
and which kinds you enjoy.
Holidome Patio
A Map, a Chase: A
Clue, a Compass, a Race!
Find your way through the clues before everyone else! Learn basic map and
compass use in an intricate race through the hotel! Taught by Aegis Consulting.
Renaissance C1
Einstein's
Relativity for Dummies
Anton VanderWyst, Andrew Porwitzky
Everything you always felt you should
understand about relativity, but were too embarrassed to ask.
St. Claire A
How Computers Think
Marshal Newrock, Andy Vinton,
Marcus Watts, Charles Ulrich
Is it alive or dead? Has it thoughts within its head? Join us as we
attempt to open up the iron and unravel how your clicks and keypresses become
things that the computer does, and how it runs a program.
The Pit
Gail Does Something
Gail Christopherson, James
Klass, Neil Epstein
Remember the Brick Panel from 2.0? Gail can guarantee
something absurd, and will attempt something impossible. It's a secret until
the event.
Renaissance A
Frank Hayes Concert
Frank Hayes
You've read
his column. Now come hear his music!
Renaissance B
Tcl/Tk
Clif Flynt
ConSuite
Stuffed Animal
Tea Party
Allison
Looney, Sharon Lee
Come Join Allison Looney and Sharon Lee for tea with their
favorite stuffed friends.
Renaissance C1
BioGeeks: Tissue Regeneration
Saumya Vanderwyst
General concepts and
approaches for tissue engineering.
Renaissance C2
Eye of
Cathy Raymond
The Eye Of Aragon - quite possible the worst science fiction ever
written, but the most hilarious piece of fiction when read aloud. Come join us
as we experience a west coast phenomenon.
St. Claire A 4:00 pm - 1 hour
Unix User Group
Leadership - Q&A
Ron Blanchett
A panel consisting of the
area LUG leadership is put in the hot seat and forced to give frank answers to
tough questions on what it takes to keep a successful user group going.
Audience involvement is highly encouraged.
St. Claire B
PHP Application
Security
Flavio
daCosta
This talk discusses many aspects of web application security with a
focus on the PHP language. We will be covering a wide range of attacks, what
they look like and techniques to use to help avoid them. Some of the attacks
covered will be input validation attacks (subsystem attacks such as SQL
injection), output validation (XSS - cross site scripting), session hijacking,
Cross-Site Request Forgeries and a few in between.
The Pit 4:00 pm - 1
hour
Warfare in SF
Jeff Beeler, John Scalzi, Barbara Trumpinski-Roberts
Which authors, past
and present, do the best job of looking at warfare in a science fiction
context? What's most important: that it is convincing, that it is plausible, or
something else entirely?
Holidome Patio
Viking Sword
Tournament
Aegis'
Favorite Game: Ten foot circle, two swords – don’t cross the line.
Renaissance A 5:00
pm - 1 hour
Spam Spam Spam
Seth Breidbart, Marshal Newrock
Checking your inbox can be like
wading through a room full of singing Vikings, trying to hear someone on the
other side. How do you shut those bloody Vikings up? Filtering with your mail
client still lets them in the door, where they leave muddy footprints all over
the place and steal important stuff. Learn about server-side techniques for
stopping spam before it even gets to your inbox.
Renaissance B
Open Cola
Bill Putt, Chuck Child
What is
it? Why is it cool? And what was it like to make it?
Renaissance C1
Racing Light: Real
Physics
Anton
VanderWyst
Real techniques for
beating photons to the finish line.
Renaissance C2
The Filking Style of
Rob Balder
Self-described renaissance geek Rob Balder regales us with songs from his album
Rich Fantasy Lives.
St. Claire A
Slashdot
Rob Malda and Jeff
"Hemos" Bates
Michael Andaluz Reading
Michael "Freon" Andaluz
ASCENT STAGE short story author reads from the up and coming and long-awaited
second collection. Let him autograph your forehead because he knows he's already
signed your copy of AS-1. He grew a beard for you; the least you can do is come
and listen.
The Pit
InZerO
Diane Frkin, Ed Gardines, Jamie Sonderman
InZer0 is a new science fiction television show being
shot in
ConSuite
Chupaqueso
Jay Maynard, Howard Tayler
What the hell is Chupaqueso? A cross between a chupacabras and Mexican cheese
dip, you say? You may never know unless you come and find out.
Holidome Patio 6:00 pm - 1
hour
The Duel
The grace of light saber battles, the precision of classic fencing, the
(rum) violent glee of pirate duels:
Aegis’ most
advanced fighters demonstrate expert performance with sword.
Renaissance A & B
Masquerade Setup
Andrea Dale
Come enjoy filk by the talented Andrea Dale!
Renaissance C2
Preventing Spyware
Rich Clark, Dan DeSloover
Spyware sucks! But how do you stop it? Our
panelists tell you how.
St. Claire B
VMware Virtualization
John Guest, Marcus Watts
The Pit 6:00 pm - 1 hour
Flirting and Romance for
Geeks
Bill Kolasa, Chuck Firment, Shay vanZwoll, Jessica
Zerwas
One panelist with all the questions you've wanted to ask. Other
panelists with the best answers they have. Gain insight on the vagaries of flirting
and romance.
Renaissance A & B
Masquerade
From jaw-dropping to
head-scratching, the masquerade will be filled with the costumes people will be
talking about until next year.
SF Economics
Karl Schroeder, Richard Herrell
It's not rare for the science in science fiction to be sketchy at best, but that's nothing compared to the viability of the economics of most SF societies. Our panelists discuss who does it well, and what doing it well means.
Renaissance C2
TurboGears
Transparent Distributed Computing
Developing for MacOSX, Linux, & Windows with Mono
Jay R. Wren
The Pit
It's just a flesh wound:
When you should stay home and avoid that $900 ED bill
Manya Newton
Find out when you should
absolutely not
stay at home.
ConSuite 8:00 pm - 1 hour
Liquid Nitrogen
Ice Cream
Rob Landley
Penguicon co-founder
Rob Landley creates another round of esoteric and happy-making ice cream
flavors. Bring your own ingredients, and see if he'll make a custom flavor for
you!
Holidome Patio
Black Sweater Party
Wear comfortable clothing,
please. Be prepared to move around, learn, and have fun. Hands-on SWAT
team-style building clearing and hostage rescue simulations with the Aegis
Consulting Staff.
Renaissance C1 8:00 pm - 1 hour
Why Didn't Science
Fiction Predict That?
Frank Hayes, Karl Schroeder, John Scalzi
SF predicted moon colonies by 2001 and computers so big they'd mostly exist in
hyperspace. That wrongheadedness has something to say about predictions we're
making today. And why DIDN'T SF predict Frogurt instead of yeast cigarettes,
anyhow?
St. Claire A
Remember the Magic -
Why you still want to use Perl and what is is good for
Brian Decker, Brian Johnson
Security Fundamentals
Tatsuya Murase
60+ minutes on security starting with the basics.
Renaissance C2 08:30:00pm - 1 hour
Making String
Figures
Alison Looney
Come spend a fun filled hour with
Alison Looney learning how to make figures out of string. Sure to be a new
skills to show off at parties.
Renaissance A
Dance
YAAARC and Robots
Neal Probert
St. Claire B
SSL Explained
Bill Childers
The basics
of SSL and PKI, geared for the layman. 1 hour presentation by Bill Childers.
Holidome Patio 10:00
pm - 3 hours
Midnight Revel
The Aegis Group Gather, converse, frolic, dream, drum, spar.
St. Claire B 10:30:00pm -
1 hour
BackupPC
Bill Childers
Just got backuppc running @ home and it's a pretty damn
cool backup method for a small LAN. Would be ideal for a
Open Filk
Enjoy the
music of the wide variety of musicians at the convention, or bring instrument
and voice and join on in.
Renaissance C1 10:00 am - 1 hour
Greet the Day:
Coffee Ritual
Matt Arnold, Andrea Dale
For those of you
inclined to worship the Holy Liquid, come join us for celebration and partaking
of the holy substance. Debate denominational variants such as honey versus
sugar, the unorthodoxy of flavored creamer, or state your devotion to the
pristine blackness.
St. Claire A 10:00 am - 1 hour
Writing Computer Games
with Tcl/Tk
Clif Flynt
Write games in an interpreted
language? Well, yes. professional gaming companies do, and so can you. Clif
Flynt will show you some of the techniques and tricks for writing games in
Tcl/Tk.
Michael Z Williamson Reading
A professional bladesmith, Mike's written a little bit of everything,
including SF and fantasy. Come enjoy his reading.
Renaissance A
Nancy
Atwell
Renaissance B
Copyrights and
Trademarks
Cathy
Raymond, Karl Schroeder, Carl Gregory
A detailed look at the legal ins and outs
of various methods of protecting intellectual property. Looks at how to, why
to, and whether to.
Renaissance C1
First Contact:
Message From Another Sun
SETI@Penguicon has received a message. We need you to help interpret it.
You may pickup copies of the raw message at Ops or Registration earlier in the
weekend. Bring your efforts to this panel and present them to your fellows.
Panelists: You and your friends. Referee: Ron Wilson
Renaissance C2 11:00
am - 1 hour
Blogging for Life
The Ferrett, John Scalzi, David Klecha
News pages. Online journals.
Web logs. A lot of people are using them. What are the tools available, and
what are the best ways to use them?
St. Claire A
Virtual Linux. (User
Mode Linux and qemu.)
Rob Landley
Promoting PGP
Eric
Raymond
The Pit 11:00 am - 1 hour
Not Just for Kids: Young
Adult Fiction
Tracy Worcester, Jeff Beeler, Bill Kolasa,
Barbara Trumpinski-Roberts
Some of the best science fiction and fantasy around
has protagonists less than 18 years old. Just because Borders puts it in the
kids section doesn't mean these aren't books you will want to read.
Renaissance A
Author
Guests Steve Miller and Sharon Lee read aloud from their work.
Renaissance B
Virtual Tour of
Google
Chris DiBona
Chris describes how Google got started, what it's
like working there now, and where it's headed. Sure to be informational.
Renaissance C1 12:00 pm - 1 hour
Best SF Books of
2005
Jeff Beeler, John Scalzi, Tobias Buckell, Karl Schroeder
What were the outstanding works of 2005? What are the titles to look for, and
who are the authors to watch?
Renaissance C2 12:00
pm - 1.5 hours
Luke Ski Concert
Dr. Demento favorite Luke Ski presents a musical performance you
won't want to miss!
St. Claire B
Penguicon Writers
Workshop 3: Read & Draw
Michael
"Freon" Andaluz, Nancy Atwell, Michael Z. Williamson
We Read the Stuff. Watch as Workshop
participants have us read their new drafts while noted artists from Niftydom
and fandom alike lend a frenzied hand interpreting the prose into illustration.
Sort of a
"picturing a thousand words" kinda thing. We round out the workshop by sharing contact info and finding out
about local writing groups who need people like you.
Renaissance A
First Contact:
Interstellar Anthropology
Barbara Trumpinski-Roberts
What role would an anthropologist play in a
first contact setting? How can models for studying various human cultures be
applied to cultures from other worlds, and where would those models fail?
Renaissance B
Speech Writing
Contest
Chris DiBona
Participants will write a short speech (and give
it) on their favorite book, game or movie. Chris will judge the best entry for
writing and delivery. Prizes to be awarded.
Renaissance C1
Everything You Know
About Filk Is Wrong
Frank Hayes, Rob Balder
Think you know what filk is? You're probably wrong.
Sure you're right? Come to the panel and argue your case with our panelists.
Renaissance A 02:30:00pm
- 1 hour
Closing Ceremonies
Bid a fond farewell to our fabulous Guests of Honor, and hear the
exciting things planned for Penguicon 5.0!
Renaissance A
Gripe (and Praise)
Session
Saw something
you weren't happy about, and want us to know? Saw something you liked, and want
us to do that again, and more like it? Give us the information we need to make
next year even better than this year!
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