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Hi! I'm trying to plan a POC meetup for Fogcon.

If you ID as POC/non-white and are going to be in the area (not necessarily even attending the con), please drop by and take the poll!

Because this is Leap Year, you have one extra day to make your FOGcon arrangements. However, that also means that you must wait an extra day before the con starts. Our top consulting physicist advises us that nothing can be done about this chronological anomaly without resources thought to be beyond the reach of a typical con-goer. We do have a small TARDIS, but so far no Doctor has yet emerged or offered rides to our members.

Write these dates on your calendar, type them into your smartphone, or tattoo them on your boss's forehead -- whatever works best to remind you of the FOGcon schedule.

Sign up for Programming by February 17. Vote for your favorite panel ideas. If you want to share your expertise by being a panel member or moderator, sign up for that, too. (Same page.)


Make your hotel reservations to get our special $99 rate by February 24.

Register for membership by February 29. After that, rates go up to $85 for adults.

Order your genuine FOGcon T-shirt by March 1.

The con starts Friday, March 30, and ends Sunday, April 1.

For more information, email us at fogcon@fogcon.org

To discuss access issues, email us at access@fogcon.org

To volunteer, email us at volunteers@fogcon.org

To inquire about being a dealer, email us at dealers@fogcon.org

Want to get our newsletter? newsletter@fogcon.org

FOGCON ON THE WEB

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LiveJournal: http://community.livejournal.com/fogcon/
Dreamwidth: http://fogcon.dreamwidth.org/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fogconvention

Originally posted by kate_nepveu at announcing 2012 Con or Bust auction

Originally posted by kate_nepveu at Con or Bust now taking requests for Jan.-March cons

I've been getting Problem loading page/The connection was reset errors with http://fogcon.org/ for days now.

We've been quietly adding panel notes as a sub-page of Programming, but we've decided to make them more prominent. So the main Panel Notes page is now listed on the tabs at the top of every page. Go there for links to general FOGcon writeups and full panel transcripts.

And if you spot discussions of FOGcon panels or programming anywhere on the Internet, or wish to submit your own, please send them to us at website@fogcon.org.

We're still gathering panel writeups for the #FOGcon web page. Check out what we have at http://ow.ly/4iTzv

Lisa Eckstein and I had a blast at this Friday evening panel. The blurb was to the point:

begin quote  You get 60 seconds in front of the mike to talk about your favorite book no one’s ever heard of and why everyone should read it. If you try to do a book you wrote yourself, the moderator can throw a squid at you. quote ends

Lisa's squid was furry; mine was rigid plastic, befitting a GI Joe Underwater Superhero. Those in attendance came up with some obscure and intriguing titles: follow the link to my journal (same stuff will be up on FOGcon's website shortly).

Your Favorite Book No One’s Ever Heard Of

#FOGcon wants YOUR reactions, panel transcripts, ideas for next year! Help us improve. http://ht.ly/4eHuu

So many hands were raised at yesterday's feedback event that I decided to take the suggestion to post these comments here instead of trying to get a word in there.

First, I had entered my info into this FOGcon Carpool List form after reading about it in the "FOGcon Progress Report 4" email, but as far as I know I never heard anything back. Did anything come of it or did it just not happen?

Second, in response to the question about whether FOGcon should stay in San Francisco or move to an East Bay or other (Silicon Valley?) city, my very biased vote is that it should stay in San Francisco both because of the name (if it was in Silicon Valley it might need to be SMOGcon instead of FOGcon) and because it's easy to get around in via public transportation (which was even a subject of one of the panels). Personally I had taken the Caltrain up to San Francisco, and then bus 47 directly from the Caltrain station to the hotel.