Penguicon Report online in Emerald City

[netmouse]

Cheryl has posted this month's edition of Emerald City, which includes my penguicon con report. It's a diary-style con report, but I tried to include items of general interest.

... hope you like it.

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[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

There are items of interest both general and specific! Best of all, there's stuff I didn't know about but now I do.

I have a question. Above this report there's a story, "Conventional Piracy," about a convention involving lots of technology, which seems to be fictionalized or dramatized with obvious comedic fantasy. However, it includes just enough real names and places to make me wonder if there's a grain of truth to it.

I quote: "Ever keen to reduce the cost of conventions, the Plokta Cabal had instituted a system of virtual panels. Roughly 80% of the programming at the convention took place entirely in cyberspace, largely through the medium of IRC chat forums. This solved an awful lot of scheduling problems and allowed us to manage with a hotel with rather less function space than might otherwise have been required." If this article is based ever so loosely on a real event, I want to know what on earth this is all about and how they managed it.