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penguicon volunteering info

Here is the volunteering info for Penguicon.  If you volunteer 6 hours
they will do their best to refund your money.  Also you will have access
to the hotel room that is available for volunteers to rest/freshen up
in.

In the forwarded message is a list of the information I need to send in
for the volunteers.  If you would like to volunteer please send me your
info and I'll send in everyone's at once.

I'm planning on volunteering so you won't be alone.

-Mary

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Mary,

I'm happy to provide some volunteering information for you while
Lady Sarah is relatively incommunicado.  I'm not sure if its 
going to provide what you want though, if you are looking for 
information to give to Michigan Tech.  If it doesn't address 
what you need, please feel free to write me back directly and
perhaps I can give you something more on target.

One thing that is not in the standard info is that the convention
will be providing a "Penguin Pit", a hotel room where volunteers
can grab a shower, catch a nap, or just pop in to rest.  It will
be open to all convention volunteers.

In any case, here is our standard volunteering info:

Subject: Volunteering for Penguicon

Thanks for your interest in volunteering at Penguicon - we're always
looking for good people!  We have lots of things that need to be done
before, during, or immediately after the convention.  And if you are 
willing to donate at least six hours of your time during the con 
(less if you do setup or teardown) you can earn a refund on your 
registration.  (Refunding registrations for the "penguins" (gophers)
is our first priority, we will do it unless the convention loses so
much money that it is impossible to.)

Also, we are looking for people that are interested in, and qualified
to, participate on panels.  If you are a big-time Science Fiction or
Fantasy fan that has unusual background or access to information that
our attendees would find interesting, or if you are a Linux or Open
Source Programming guru and would like to share some of your skills
with others, then please let us know.  We won't be placing everyone 
that volunteers onto a panel, but we're always looking for unique
presenters.  Also, if you can participate on at least three panels,
you'll receive a reduced registration rate, and may also get that
registration refunded if the con has sufficient funds after we
reimburse our penguins.

In order to volunteer, please reply to this e-mail, and give us the
following information:

* Your name
* Your address (including city, state, and zip)
* Your telephone number
* If you have a preference on jobs. (Do you want to work during the 
  con, or only before it, or after it for teardown, or can you only 
  work on certain con days, etc.)
* Do you have superpowers (or just job experience) that you'd be
  willing to share with us?  (For instance, if you are an graphic
  artist, or a desktop publisher, or own a moving company, or could
  give a Linux related presentation, or other practical things.)
* Have you volunteered at cons before, and what did you do?

Please let me know if this gives you everything you need.

Regards,

Steve Gutterman
Penguicon 2.0 Chair



Message text written by Tracy Worcester
>
Steve:  see below.

...Tracy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Mary Farmer <mcfarmer@xxxxxxx>
To: Tracy Worcester <critter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: potential presentation

Thanks for the quick response.  I also emailed Lady Sarah about a group of
us volunteering at penguicon but she seems to be without internet right
now.  I was wondering if you could give me some more information about
volunteering or point me to someone who can.  I'd like to get this all
figured out so that we can work out excused absences in our classes.  At
Michigan Tech they don't like to give excused absences with out a "good"
reason and community service or presenting on something are good excuses.

Thanks

-Mary

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Tracy Worcester wrote:

> Mary:
>
> This sounds like a really good presentation.  However, our programming
> plan was theoretically finalized yesterday.  What I can do is pass you on
> to David and Alice, the folks who are executing the plan, and see if they
> can still find a way to fit you folks in.  (:
>
> In either case, thank you for volunteering, and we hope to see you at the
> con!
>
> ...Tracy
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Mary Farmer wrote:
>
> > I am a member of the Linux Users Group at Michigan Tech.  Our group
would
> > like to do a presentation and question/answer session on starting a
Linux
> > Users Group.  A number of our current members were founding members of
our
> > group.
> >
> > Please let me know if this would be a possibility.
> >
> > -Mary
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Tracy Worcester, Swordscritter        |       "We are what we repeatedly
do.     |
> Linux-Wielding Massage Therapist|       Excellence is therefore not     |
> Convention Co-Founder, PenguiCon|     an act, but a habit."           |
> Person of Reasonable Happiness  |     ---Aristotle                    |
>

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