September 30 - October 10, 2005
Sheraton, Austin, Tx.
| Friday | Elsewhere | Pecos | Pedernales East | Pedernales West | San Gabriel I |
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| 3:00 PM |
Opening Ceremonies |
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| 3:30 PM | |||||
| 4:00 PM |
Anime & Cyberpunk Josh Hearn, Greg Simoes |
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| 4:30 PM |
Larval Mode Eric Raymond, John Quarterman |
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| 5:00 PM |
Realities of the Video Game Industry Sam Lewis |
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| 5:30 PM | |||||
| 6:00 PM |
Life Cycle of MMORPGs Sam Lewis |
Game design improv James Ernest, Wes Jenkins, Jordan Thomas, Marc Majcher, David Marcum |
Doujinshi Greg Simoes |
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| 6:30 PM | |||||
| 7:00 PM |
Independent Video Game Development Michael Lubker, Patrick Moran, Nathan Walther, Michael Chrien |
Cosplay Performance and Presentation One Hour Productions |
Learning to Draw Howard Tayler |
How to Juggle James Ernest |
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| 7:30 PM | |||||
| 8:00 PM |
Profitable OSS Game Development Jason Asbahr |
Will there ever be another Texas Worldcon? Kurt Baty, Karen Meschke, Willie Siros |
Women in Anime Colleen Clinkenbeard |
This topic intentionally left blank. Steve Jackson, Eric Raymond, Howard Tayler |
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| 8:30 PM | |||||
| 9:00 PM |
Robot Group Marching Band Denise Cioli, Sonja Santos, Rick Abbott, Don Colbath |
The early history of computers Tom Morin, Bill Allen |
James Ernest's Totally Renamed Keynote
Speech. James Ernest |
Reading. Rie Sheridan |
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| 9:30 PM | |||||
| 10:00 PM |
Celebrity Kill Dr. Lucky James Ernest, John Quarterman, Steve Jackson, Eric Raymond |
Karaoke |
Optimizing Linux. Stu Green |
Adventures in Costuming Cathy Raymond, Jay Maynard |
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| 10:30 PM | |||||
| 11:00 PM |
Computer Security Stu Green |
Eye of Argon reading. Cathy Raymond, Rie Sheridan |
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| 11:30 PM | Midnight
Serenity Party (in the con suite). |
| Saturday | Elsewhere | Pecos | Pedernales East | Pedernales West | San Gabriel I |
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| 10:00 AM |
Electronic Publishing Rie Sheridan |
Self Defense for Geeks Cathy Raymond, Eric Raymond |
Hercules: an open source IBM mainframe
emulator Jay Maynard |
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| 10:30 AM | |||||
| 11:00 AM |
The current state of gaming technology James Choate, Chris Tom |
Martial Arts Demonstration John Hidalgo |
Building a Neverwinter Nights(tm) module
in 8 weeks David Marcum |
Running a small online business. Howard Tayler, Giles Schildt |
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| 11:30 AM | |||||
| 12:00 PM |
OS Tan Panel/Awards Ceremony Greg Simoes |
World-building 101 Rie Sheridan |
Eric Raymond's Rolling Road Show Eric Raymond |
Robot Group: Egg Bot demonstration. Paul Atkinson, Rick Abbott |
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| 12:30 PM | |||||
| 1:00 PM |
Austin's largest LAN party Chris Tom |
Scary Robots:Halloween Animatronics Vern Graner |
What's new at Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson |
Internet Radio Keri Bean |
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| 1:30 PM | Fun with
Liquid Nitrogen (in the parking lot) |
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| 2:00 PM |
The Chaos Machine (in the lobby) Steve Jackson, Howard Tayler, Eric Raymond, James Ernest, John Quarterman, Colleen Clinkenbeard |
Anime Music Videos |
Cosplay Construction Rachael Huffman, Ayn Damron |
Customers do the craziest things Rusty Allen, Stu Green |
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| 2:30 PM | |||||
| 3:00 PM |
Break |
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| 4:00 PM | |||||
| 4:30 PM | |||||
| 5:00 PM |
Chupaquesos (in the con suite) Howard Tayler, Jay Maynard |
The 5th World Jim Brazell |
Short Stories vs Novels Lawrence Person |
Inside the Global Positioning System. Eric Raymond |
Filk 101 Joseph Abbott |
| 5:30 PM | |||||
| 6:00 PM |
Top Secret Illuminati Expansion Playtest (in
Gaming) Steve Jackson, fnord |
Learning Games Jim Bower, Mary Schenck Ross, Douglas Hall, Rich Legrand, Jim Brazell |
Manga 101 Josh Hearn, Galena Simoes |
Voice Acting Colleen Clinkenbeard |
The future of microprocessors Chris Tom |
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| 7:00 PM |
Fan Fiction Kevin Callahan |
The History of the Internet. John Quarterman |
Firefly |
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| 7:30 PM | |||||
| 8:00 PM |
The Cell Processor Chris Tom, Max Aguilar |
GPG Key signing party. Mark Humphrey |
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| 8:30 PM |
Cosplay Cathy Raymond, Howard Tayler, Jimmie Bragdon, One Hour Productions |
Cosplay Cathy Raymond, Howard Tayler, Jimmie Bragdon, One Hour Productions |
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| 9:00 PM |
Building Linux Systems Rob Landley |
Risk Management: Katrina, Cyberhurricanes,
and Portfolios of Options John Quarterman, Eric Raymond |
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| 9:30 PM | |||||
| 10:00 PM |
Linux on the Desktop Rob Landley, Eric Raymond, Stu Green |
Filk Joseph Abbott |
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| 11:00 PM | |||||
| 11:30 PM |
| Sunday | Elsewhere | Pecos | Pedernales East | Pedernales West | San Gabriel I |
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| 10:00 AM |
The Wil Wheaton Memorial Poker Tournament (in
Gaming) James Ernest, Chase Hoffman |
Schlock Mercenary Howard Tayler |
Robotech James Pickens |
Anatomy of the Linux Operating System Rob Landley |
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| 10:30 AM | |||||
| 11:00 AM |
How might you network a trillion mobile
devices together? Rusty Allen |
Beat the Geeks |
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| 11:30 AM | |||||
| 12:00 PM |
Videogame console maintenance James Choate |
Dub Directing Colleen Clinkenbeard |
Local science fiction writers you should
be reading. Lawrence Person, Rie Sheridan |
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| 12:30 PM | |||||
| 1:00 PM |
NERO Gameplay Presentation Michal Chrien, NERO team |
How to Draw Doug Smith |
Authors We Gave Up On Cathy Raymond, Eric Raymond, Jay Maynard, Lawrence Person |
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| 1:30 PM | |||||
| 2:00 PM |
NERO Technical Presentation Ken Stanley |
Pros and cons of the GNU General Public
License Eric Raymond, Cathy Raymond, Jay Maynard, Rob Landley |
Airsoft Josh Hearn, Greg Simoes |
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| 2:30 PM | |||||
| 3:00 PM |
10,000+ node networking for very large
computer clusters. Rusty Allen, James Choate |
How to design an RPG for a broader market David Marcum |
Guilty Pleasures Cathy Raymond |
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| 3:30 PM | |||||
| 4:00 PM |
Closing Ceremonies Chase Hoffman |
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| 4:30 PM |
| name | location | panelists | description |
| 10,000+ node networking for very large computer clusters. | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 03:00 PM |
Rusty Allen, James Choate | What are the scalability issues of networking together over 10,000 machinesNetworking together 10,000 or more computers to work together has its own set of issues. |
| Adventures in Costuming | San Gabriel I 09/30/2005 10:00 PM |
Cathy Raymond, Jay Maynard | Science Fiction and Anime costumers share their experiences. |
| Airsoft | San Gabriel I 10/02/2005 02:00 PM |
Josh Hearn, Greg Simoes | |
| Anatomy of the Linux Operating System | San Gabriel I 10/02/2005 10:00 AM |
Rob Landley | The guts of a Linux system: Bios, boot loader, kernel load, hardware and subsystem initialization, finding and mounting the root filesystem, and launching the first process. |
| Anime & Cyberpunk | Pecos 09/30/2005 04:00 PM |
Josh Hearn, Greg Simoes | |
| Anime Music Videos | Pecos 10/01/2005 02:00 PM |
Learn to make astounding anime music videos from Bad Martial Arts, just returned from AWA. | |
| Austin's largest LAN party | Pecos 10/01/2005 01:00 PM |
Chris Tom | The Texas Gaming Festival holds monthly LAN parties as well as a big annual event. Organizing Linucon's PC gaming is just the tip of the iceberg of what these guys do. |
| Authors We Gave Up On | San Gabriel I 10/02/2005 01:00 PM |
Cathy Raymond, Eric Raymond, Jay Maynard, Lawrence Person | What does it take for an author you used to really like to honk you off so badly that you won't read him or her any more? Our panelists discuss cases. |
| Beat the Geeks | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 11:00 AM |
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| Break | Pedernales West, Pedernales East, San Gabriel I, Pecos,
Elsewhere 10/01/2005 03:00 PM |
Down time. Food. Dealer's room. Con suite. Chaos Machine. Gaming... | |
| Building Linux Systems | Pecos 10/01/2005 09:00 PM |
Rob Landley | Create custom or embedded systems by compiling Linux from source code. The main packages how they fit together, with a look at a few alternatives. |
| Building a Neverwinter Nights(tm) module in 8 weeks | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 11:00 AM |
David Marcum | The producer of "Never Black and White" (and as much of the development team as can make it) discusses the development process and demonstrates the game, with Q&A after. |
| Celebrity Kill Dr. Lucky | Pecos 09/30/2005 10:00 PM |
James Ernest, John Quarterman, Steve Jackson, Eric Raymond | |
| Chupaquesos (in the con suite) | Elsewhere 10/01/2005 05:00 PM |
Howard Tayler, Jay Maynard | The experts prepare cheese in a fried cheese shell, with extra cheese. The audience gets to eat the results. A favorite of Schlock Mercenary fans. |
| Closing Ceremonies | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 04:00 PM |
Chase Hoffman | Stop by and tell us how we did. |
| Computer Security | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 11:00 PM |
Stu Green | The major threats to Linux and Windows systems. Intrusion detection and prevention. Tools and strategies. |
| Cosplay | Pedernales East, Pedernales West 10/01/2005 08:30 PM |
Cathy Raymond, Howard Tayler, Jimmie Bragdon, One Hour Productions | Cosplay, up on stage, hosted by One Hour Productions |
| Cosplay Construction | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 02:00 PM |
Rachael Huffman, Ayn Damron | Rachael Huffman and Ayn Damron, the lovely duo better known as Pink Chocolate Cosplay, share tips and advice on costume construction. |
| Cosplay Performance and Presentation | Pedernales East 09/30/2005 07:00 PM |
One Hour Productions | Ever wonder what goes into making a great cosplay skit even better? Come and join One Hour Productions as they discuss tips and secrets with Linucon guests on how to write and perform a successful cosplay entry. |
| Customers do the craziest things | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 02:00 PM |
Rusty Allen, Stu Green | |
| Doujinshi | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 06:00 PM |
Greg Simoes | |
| Dub Directing | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 12:00 PM |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | In addition to voicing a major character for Full Metal Alchemist, Colleen Clinkenbeard is also the ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) Director. Come behind the scenes to hear what it takes to bring Anime to an American audience. |
| Electronic Publishing | Pecos 10/01/2005 10:00 AM |
Rie Sheridan | The pleasures and pitfalls of E-books, publishing on demand, e-zines and other internet postings. |
| Eric Raymond's Rolling Road Show | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 12:00 PM |
Eric Raymond | Question and answer session. |
| Eye of Argon reading. | San Gabriel I 09/30/2005 11:00 PM |
Cathy Raymond, Rie Sheridan | See how much of the worst story ever written you can read with a straight face. |
| Fan Fiction | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 07:00 PM |
Kevin Callahan | Fan Fiction is stories written by fans of various genres that include characters, worlds, and situations created by someone else, that the author has no claim to and cannot get paid for. |
| Filk | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 10:00 PM |
Joseph Abbott | Live music and sing-along. |
| Filk 101 | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 05:00 PM |
Joseph Abbott | An introduction to Fannish musical traditions. |
| Firefly | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 07:00 PM |
I can kill you with my brain. | |
| Fun with Liquid Nitrogen (in the parking lot) | Elsewhere 10/01/2005 01:30 PM |
30 liters of Liquid Nitrogen totally wasted for your entertainment. | |
| GPG Key signing party. | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 08:00 PM |
Mark Humphrey | A key-signing party is an event in which the participants work to enhance the reliability and the verifiability of email. We do this by meeting, comparing identities, exchanging public key information, and signing the public keys. There are online instructions [ http://www.alyra.org/~msph/web/?action=default/Key+Signing+Party/read ]. |
| Game design improv | Pedernales East 09/30/2005 06:00 PM |
James Ernest, Wes Jenkins, Jordan Thomas, Marc Majcher, David Marcum | A panel consisting of board game designers, computer game designers, and a creative director for Lego(tm) will take suggestions for design constraints from the audience and brainstorm a game that fits those constraints. |
| Guilty Pleasures | San Gabriel I 10/02/2005 03:00 PM |
Cathy Raymond | Science Fiction authors we like, even though we think we shouldn't. |
| Hercules: an open source IBM mainframe emulator | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 10:00 AM |
Jay Maynard | One of the more surreal sights in the world is an IBM System/370 mainframe console booting up on a laptop. We have the technology! Find about about Hercules, an open source emulator that runs IBM mainframe software on PCs. |
| How might you network a trillion mobile devices together? | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 11:00 AM |
Rusty Allen | Designing a self-generating network without any fixed location architecture. |
| How to Draw | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 01:00 PM |
Doug Smith | A workshop. |
| How to Juggle | San Gabriel I 09/30/2005 07:00 PM |
James Ernest | James Ernest was a professional juggler before he became a game publisher, and he's coming out of retirement to give a demonstration and juggling lessons to Linucon attendees. |
| How to design an RPG for a broader market | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 03:00 PM |
David Marcum | Designing video games by distilling the Role Playing Game model down to it's core game play, with the goal of opening up the genre to casual videogamers. Just as movies weren't the best medium for stage plays, video consoles aren't always the best medium for paper and pencil role-playing games. |
| I'm published! Now what? | 10/02/2005 11:00 AM |
Rie Sheridan | How and why to market your work (book, game, artwork, etc.) after you have a publisher. |
| Independent Video Game Development | Pecos 09/30/2005 07:00 PM |
Michael Lubker, Patrick Moran, Nathan Walther, Michael Chrien | Ask all the questions you want about doing Computer and Video Game Development on your own, without a big publisher. |
| Inside the Global Positioning System. | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 05:00 PM |
Eric Raymond | Eric Raymond, maintainer of the Global Positioning System Daemon for Linux, talks about how GPS (and GPSD) really work. |
| Internet Radio | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 01:00 PM |
Keri Bean | Live audio streams on the internet can do things FM radio can't do. |
| James Ernest's Totally Renamed Keynote Speech. | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 09:00 PM |
James Ernest | The founder of Cheapass Games talks about... anything he wants to, really. |
| Karaoke | Pedernales East 09/30/2005 10:00 PM |
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| Larval Mode | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 04:30 PM |
Eric Raymond, John Quarterman | A panel for students who want to learn to program, problem-solve, and be passionate about technology. |
| Learning Games | Pecos 10/01/2005 06:00 PM |
Jim Bower, Mary Schenck Ross, Douglas Hall, Rich Legrand, Jim Brazell | An exploration of the application of video games to learning. |
| Learning to Draw | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 07:00 PM |
Howard Tayler | In 1998, a software executive named Howard Tayler started an online comic strip. Five years later he retired from Novell to be a full-time professional cartoonist. Along the way, he became a much better artist, and shares the journey. |
| Life Cycle of MMORPGs | Pecos 09/30/2005 06:00 PM |
Sam Lewis | |
| Linux on the Desktop | Pecos 10/01/2005 10:00 PM |
Rob Landley, Eric Raymond, Stu Green | Back to the Future had flying cars, and 1998 expected Linux to replace Windows. Which is likely to come first, and why? |
| Local science fiction writers you should be reading. | San Gabriel I 10/02/2005 12:00 PM |
Lawrence Person, Rie Sheridan | Texas is home to a lot of great science fiction writers. How are they, and what should I read by them? |
| Manga 101 | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 06:00 PM |
Josh Hearn, Galena Simoes | |
| Martial Arts Demonstration | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 11:00 AM |
John Hidalgo | Round Rock Bujinkan Dojo and the Texas Shinto Study Group. |
| Midnight Serenity Party (in the con suite). | Elsewhere 09/30/2005 11:30 PM |
The con suite's open 24 hours, so the after-movie party can last a while. | |
| NERO Gameplay Presentation | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 01:00 PM |
Michal Chrien, NERO team | Former lead programmer Michael Chrien and members of his team will demo NERO (Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives), and describe some of the challenges and joys of designing a game around cutting edge university research. |
| NERO Technical Presentation | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 02:00 PM |
Ken Stanley | Dr. Kenneth Stanley will go over the technical details behind the AI in the game NERO. |
| OS Tan Panel/Awards Ceremony | Pecos 10/01/2005 12:00 PM |
Greg Simoes | |
| Opening Ceremonies | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 03:00 PM |
And they're off... | |
| Optimizing Linux. | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 10:00 PM |
Stu Green | Getting the best possible performance out of a Linux system. |
| Profitable OSS Game Development | Pecos 09/30/2005 08:00 PM |
Jason Asbahr | |
| Pros and cons of the GNU General Public License | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 02:00 PM |
Eric Raymond, Cathy Raymond, Jay Maynard, Rob Landley | The most popular open source license, the GPL, inspires controversy to this day. Eric Raymond recently expressed some ambivalence about it, so he and his lawyer wife Cathy are moderating this panel, with Jay Maynard speaking out against the GPL and Rob Landley defending it. |
| Reading. | San Gabriel I 09/30/2005 09:00 PM |
Rie Sheridan | Author Rie Sheridan reads one of her works. |
| Realities of the Video Game Industry | Pecos 09/30/2005 05:00 PM |
Sam Lewis | |
| Risk Management: Katrina, Cyberhurricanes, and Portfolios of Options | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 09:00 PM |
John Quarterman, Eric Raymond | |
| Robot Group Marching Band | Pecos 09/30/2005 09:00 PM |
Denise Cioli, Sonja Santos, Rick Abbott, Don Colbath | Art project for the City of Austin presented during Austin's first night celebration, brought here to Linucon. |
| Robot Group: Egg Bot demonstration. | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 12:00 PM |
Paul Atkinson, Rick Abbott | Egg Bot is a computerized plotter that draws art patterns on eggs. |
| Robotech | Pedernales West 10/02/2005 10:00 AM |
James Pickens | |
| Running a small online business. | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 11:00 AM |
Howard Tayler, Giles Schildt | It's the 21st-century American Dream: work out of your home and watch money arrive in your mailbox. There's just a LITTLE bit more to it than that, though. Giles Schildt and Howard Tayler will explain the ins and outs of running an online business so that you can make a living off of it. |
| Scary Robots:Halloween Animatronics | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 01:00 PM |
Vern Graner | A demonstration of some of the Halloween robots Vern Graner has created. |
| Schlock Mercenary | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 10:00 AM |
Howard Tayler | Plotting to take over the world since 1998. |
| Self Defense for Geeks | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 10:00 AM |
Cathy Raymond, Eric Raymond | |
| Short Stories vs Novels | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 05:00 PM |
Lawrence Person | Some science fiction writers (Ted Chiang, Howard Waldrom, Harlan Ellison, etc.) are much better short story writers than novelists. What skills are required in the different forms, and why are some writers better suited to one than the other? |
| The 5th World | Pecos 10/01/2005 05:00 PM |
Jim Brazell | The increasingly immersive nature of online environments will someday make "World of Warcraft" look like a text MUD. MMORPGs are driving many of the advances in modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, and network-centric social interaction, but what are the wider implications for entertainment, industry, defense, and academia? |
| The Cell Processor | Pecos 10/01/2005 08:00 PM |
Chris Tom, Max Aguilar | Produced by a partnership between Sony, IBM, and Toshiba, the new chip at the heart of the Playstation 3 could have much wider applications. |
| The Chaos Machine (in the lobby) | Elsewhere 10/01/2005 02:00 PM |
Steve Jackson, Howard Tayler, Eric Raymond, James Ernest, John Quarterman, Colleen Clinkenbeard | Grown-ups playing with a giant toy. |
| The History of the Internet. | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 07:00 PM |
John Quarterman | |
| The Wil Wheaton Memorial Poker Tournament (in Gaming) | Elsewhere 10/02/2005 10:00 AM |
James Ernest, Chase Hoffman | Although Wil Wheaton isn't coming back this year, the poker tournament he inspired is still taking people's money. Buy-in is $20, and the house takes no rake. (We will not be checking con badges at the door for the same reason.) |
| The current state of gaming technology | Pecos 10/01/2005 11:00 AM |
James Choate, Chris Tom | |
| The early history of computers | Pedernales East 09/30/2005 09:00 PM |
Tom Morin, Bill Allen | Back in the days of vacuum tubes and punched cards, when IBM fought Univac for supremacy and magnetic core memory was a wild new idea... |
| The future of microprocessors | San Gabriel I 10/01/2005 06:00 PM |
Chris Tom | 64-bit PCs have arrived, and will be the only things worth selling in a few years. The switch from 16 to 32-bit processors left DOS behind and gave us space for multitasking and graphical user interfaces. What changes are in store for the computing world this time around? |
| This topic intentionally left blank. | San Gabriel I 09/30/2005 08:00 PM |
Steve Jackson, Eric Raymond, Howard Tayler | An excuse for these guys to hang out and talk, really. |
| Top Secret Illuminati Expansion Playtest (in Gaming) | Elsewhere 10/01/2005 06:00 PM |
Steve Jackson, fnord | Playtest the long-awaited new expansion set for Illuminati. It adds cards for new and terrifying world powers like Bloggers, Reality Shows, Intelligent Design, and Embedded Reporters... brings in some of the best INWO groups, like Deprogrammers and Science Alarmists... and introduces a new card type: Resources! |
| Videogame console maintenance | Pedernales East 10/02/2005 12:00 PM |
James Choate | |
| Voice Acting | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 06:00 PM |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | Come listen while Colleen Clinkenbeard talks about the zany antics of voice acting. |
| What's new at Steve Jackson Games | Pedernales West 10/01/2005 01:00 PM |
Steve Jackson | |
| Will there ever be another Texas Worldcon? | Pedernales East 09/30/2005 08:00 PM |
Kurt Baty, Karen Meschke, Willie Siros | 70 years after the first World Science Convention, Texas has only been the host once (LoneStarCon II, San Antonio, 1997). What would it take to bring another one here, what year and which city could host it, and are there enough Texas SF fans left to run it? |
| Women in Anime | Pedernales West 09/30/2005 08:00 PM |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | The many roles of women in the Anime industry. |
| World-building 101 | Pedernales East 10/01/2005 12:00 PM |
Rie Sheridan |
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