On Wednesday 11 February 2004 17:30, Troy C. Belding wrote: > So far, we have locked in > > Howard Tayler > Eric Raymond > Eric Flint > Steve Jackson > > With tentatives from > John Karmac (VERY tentative) > Bruce Stirling > Fred Gallagher
Cool. John Carmack is spelled with a C. > I'm waiting another day to get a response back from Eric Flint before I > pony up the $10 for a month's membership to sff.net - I may go for a > full years membership, to use for advertising, etc. (linucon) > Then I'll try to get ahold of Elizabeth Moon. [googling for her, finding a picture...] Oh yeah, her. I met her at Armadillocon a couple times, she's cool. I'll bug her for you, if you like. (She did a really nice sword fighting demonstration at Armadillocon the year before last. Maybe her crew would be willing to put on something similar at Linucon...) I'd prefer to do it in email, but phone isn't too bad... > I've also asked Eric for any other suggestions as to what he'd like to > do/see. > > I'd say that those four 'for certain' guests give us a solid core to > work with for at least the next month. Yeah. I'd like to add one more, but I must say that right now the balance between geek and fen isn't bad if we play up Howard's Novell aspect. If we can get Fred locked in before the next Anime con, we're in really good shape. (We could sweeten the deal by offering to fly in Seraphim, assuming we can afford it...) > How many major guests do we really want, anyway? I'd budget for five "fly them in and get them a hotel room" slots, maybe another five "they drive in but we buy them a hotel room" slots, and then as many "in-town, no hotel room, costs us nothing" guests as we can get. Sound like a plan? > Troy Rob
