Lojban In General

Posted by Eppcott on Fri 25 of Jul, 2008 16:42 GMT posts: 4740

Announcing the newest Lojban Festival, at Penguicon, May one through
three, 2009, right near Detroit Metro airport in Michigan!

Penguicon is the ultimate geekstravaganza. It is a 1,000 person event
in a convention hotel all weekend, tailored not only to science
fiction fans, but also to computer programmers, both of whom tend to
be attracted to Lojban. My classes about Lojban at Penguicon have been
well-attended and created the Lojban enthusiast group which meets in
my house.

I will be the convention chair of Penguicon 2009, and will make sure
we get far better treatment than we got from Philcon. I will treat
jbonunsla to prominent and ample function space, equipment, and
signage. Electricity and free wireless bandwidth will flow like a
river of milk and honey. I know all the local restaurants and will
make the necessary purchases in the local area beforehand. Given that
we enjoyed the jbonunsla I organized at Philcon, this one will be even
better.

Michigan is more centrally located to the continental US than any
Lojban festival that has come before, so I hope for great attendance.
Stephen Weeks has been searching out the interest of several past
jbonunsla attendees. He will be there, bancus will come, rlpowell will
come, and clsn would like to be there if he can afford it.

The new hotel this year has a large number of function rooms. We will
give one that opens on the atrium as the Lojban Speaking Room. It
could be designated as a place to _speak_ Lojban to each other. I
would like to put an info kiosk outside it (Penguicon owns several)
and I will make a Flash animation on DVD that will be on a loop,
introducing passerby to Lojban. We can hang the original Logfest mural
and drape all the walls in additional paper to expand the mural.

There will be Lojbanic games such as la cibyska and Nanofictionary. We
can record ourselves speaking Lojban and put the audio and video on
the internet. We hope to show the silent black and white film "Call of
Cthulhu" with its subtitles translated into Lojban. The hotel
restaurant is turned over to be our 24-hour hospitality suite, where
there will be free beer all weekend. In brief: it will be full of
awesomesauce.

Check out the Penguicon website at http://penguicon.org. We plan to
have the online registration launched some time this month.
Registration is $35 until October. I'll see if we can get large enough
to grant a group rate, so let me talk to my head of reg about that and
I'll let you know; in the meantime, sign up here to express interest
that I can show to my committee:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=px_AYw4N9NwMtjyEYKS8LHQ&hl=en

Who's in?
Eppcott
President, Board of Directors
Logical Language Group

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