Chasing Nuts » Penguicon http://www.chasingnuts.com Life is complex: it has real and imaginary components. Wed, 19 May 2010 15:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Penguicon SMOScast Episode 1 http://www.chasingnuts.com/2008/penguicon-smoscast-episode-1/ http://www.chasingnuts.com/2008/penguicon-smoscast-episode-1/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 18:13:26 +0000 Aaron Thul http://www.chasingnuts.com/?p=94 Jer and Jes Have put gogether an amazing Penguicon PodCast or SMOScast.  For those that do not know SMOScast is a monthly Penguicon podcast that will update everyone on community info, behind the scenes info, etc.  and every other week it will be a call-in show.  Thank you both for getting this project off the grount!

Episode 1 – A Babe in the Woods (55:27) (MP3 (50.7MB) / ogg (37.4MB))

  • 00:00 Intro Music (Throne of Blood http://www.throneofblood.com)
  • 00:25 Show Start
  • 01:14 Host Introductions
  • 04:00 Show Introduction
  • 07:25 How to get involved with the show (smoscast at penguicon dot org)
  • 09:00 Penguicon 6.0
  • 09:19 A note with love and understanding by Jer
  • 09:55 Our favorites of 6.0
  • 10:53 We aren’t at all conceited
  • 13:27 Steve GUTTERMAN, not Steve GUTTENBERG
  • 13:50 Official Soundbyte!(tm)
  • 15:47 Dreamland Theater (http://www.dreamlandtheater.com)
  • 16:40 Shoggoth on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvogA7r5b0)
  • 19:07 Guest of Honor lovin’
  • 19:43 Woobies: A woman causing a motorboat situation with her breasts!
  • 20:40 Tim Leib is teh awesome / Penguicon != Scientology
  • 25:42 Jer’s phone makes an annoying appearance (35 seconds of pain, oops)
  • 28:35 Jess has mathematical difficulty
  • 20:28 Matt’s missing ConChair Report
  • 29:40 Jobs at Penguicon
  • 32:17 penguicon.info (Coming soon)
  • 33:39 Job Opening: Operations & Ops Staff!
  • 34:39 Obscenity Alert – Only 34 minutes late!
  • 36:15 consuite at penguicon dot org
  • 36:45 Introducing Penguicon *BING*
  • 37:06 Job Opening: Sponsorship/Marketing and Staff!
  • 39:39 Help Wanted (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/help-wanted)
  • 42:02 The truth comes out
  • 42:13 Meeting List (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/milestonesandmeetings)
  • 43:17 SMOS explained
  • 44:30 Wrap-Up/Kick-Off Meeting recap (Jess’s drunken escapades)
  • 49:38 Hosting your own SMOS Dinner
  • 50:56 We’re about done here / Planning for live broadcast
  • 51:45 http://www.penguicon.org and http://www.ibloviate.org
  • 53:02 Ending matter and license
  • 53:15 Closing music (Throne of Blood)
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]]> http://www.chasingnuts.com/2008/musical-tesla-coils-at-penguicon/feed/ 1 Six years of Penguicons wrapped up http://www.chasingnuts.com/2008/six-years-of-penguicons-wrapped-up/ http://www.chasingnuts.com/2008/six-years-of-penguicons-wrapped-up/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:40:28 +0000 Aaron Thul http://www.chasingnuts.com/?p=88 Six years in a row now I have spend one Sunday more tired them most any other.   This is the Sunday night after Penguicon and this year was no exception to the rule.   Penguicon 6.0 has now come to a close and my head is swimming with all the great memories of this weekend.  First I have to say that the Tech guests of honors totally rocked.  All the guests of honor and nifty guests totally rocked the Penguicon house and I am thankful they agreed to take time out of their busy schedules to come. 

A few highlight from this weekend was the weather, the people, and Giant Singing Tesla Coils.  There have been Penguicons where a blizzard has dumped inches of snow during the event; this year we had plenty of great spring weather.  What I like most about Penguicon is the chance to meet and talk with exciting people.  As an organizer I am fortunate to have Thursday night and often times Sunday night to interact with the guests on a bit more personal level.  This year was no exception and the food and company for my Thursday and Sunday dinner was terrific.  This year at Penguicon we introduced a new guest type, Hack of Honor.  The inaugural Hack of Honor was no other then the Giant Singing Tesla Coils.  I really did not know what to expect but I can say that any expectation I had was completely blown away!  The amazing spring weather with the beautiful lighting and fun music was one of the most interesting experiences I have ever had.  The music was a selection of video game music, popular tunes and a bit if classical.  If you ever get a chance to see the Giant Singing Tesla Coils in person I would not miss it for anything. 

I am very tired after the weekend and will write more about the weekend in the coming week. 

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If you are reading this and have some time this Friday I am looking for volunteers to help load the AV into the truck and then unload it at the hotel.  The plan is to meet in the Hotel Lobby at noon on Friday there I will pass out directions to the warehouse about four miles away where we need to load the truck.  Once we loaded the truck we will head back to the hotel where we will unload the truck and get the equipment staged to go into each room at 3pm. 

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On another note I will be talking about my favorite database PostgreSQL tomorrow at MUG. I plan to talk about the histroy of the project and then get into all the super hot new features. After that I will also shamelessly plug Penguicon.

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http://community.livejournal.com/penguicon/27890.html
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?y=2007&m=April&d=28
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/28/penguicon-50-day-3-and-the-voyage-home
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007042600526OSCYEV
http://arslounge.com/tag/penguicon/
http://spilog.org/archives/category/linux/penguicon/
http://journal.memnison.com/2007/04/23/penguicon-2007/
http://stonetable.org/2007/04/18/on-the-road-to-penguicon/
http://www.ohiolinux.org/node/55

If you have made some posts about Penguicon that I missed please leave me a link to them in the comments.

So you may be asking what is next??? We are already hard at work on Penguicon for next year!

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Penguicon was featured this week in the Detroit Free press. You can see the article here.

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Penguicon 4.0 coming up

Everyone’s favorite Michigan based Linux and Scifi convention is back for another year. Guests of honor this year include Chris DiBona, Frank Hayes, Andy Looney, Kristin Looney, Alison Looney, Steve Miller and Sharon Lee. See you there!read more | digg story

Thank you everyone who helped make this happen.

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For the scheduling I decided to use MRBS, a few little tweaks and we have a great tool for the Penguicon programming team. A very special thank you to the MRBS development team for making a great and yet simple program.

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