Linucon is a combination science fiction convention and Linux expo, which will be held in Austin Texas the weekend of October 8, 2004 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Our web page is at www.linucon.org although there's not much there yet.
I'm the convention chair (Rob Landley), and I'm hereby inviting you to come be a Featured Guest, in both your game designer and rocket scientist roles. Our other confirmed Featured Guests so far are Eric Raymond (a Linux guy), Steve Jackson (different kind of gaming guy), and Eric Flint (SF author and guy behind the Baen free library). There's more to come (hopefully including you)... Our hotel is the Red Lion (at the intersection of I-35 and 290 from Houston). There will be both tech and SF panels, 802.11b internet access throughout the building, dealer's room, art show, filk, installfest, a masquerade, con suite, movie room (probably showing anime at least half the time), a scheduled banquet, birds of a feather sessions, a LARP, liquid nitrogen ice cream (zero to ice cream in under 60 seconds) and caffienated jello, and other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. The "call for papers" should go out sometime in February. The prototype for this event was Penguicon (up in Detroit), which you can read about at penguicon.sf.net (last year's event) or www.penguicon.org (this year's event, coming up in April). As a featured guest, we would pay for your hotel room (and travel expenses), give you free admission to the con (for you and one other person), give you a really nice badge ribbon, and put you on a number of panels. (If you're really good, you can help prepare the liquid nitrogen ice cream too.) Oh yeah: part of the standard "Featured Guest" deal is the offer of a free dealer's room table (well, 4 feet of table space, anyway) if you can think of something you'd want to do with it. (Not a requirement, just let us know if you want it. Steve Jackson's bringing flunkies to sell his games, for example...) The address this is CC'd to is the con staff mailing list. So, what do you think? Rob
