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From: Steve Gutterman, 72561,2553
To: Mary Farmer, INTERNET:mcfarmer@xxxxxxx
Date: 4/6/2004 11:56 PM
RE: Re: Fwd: volunteer information
Mary,
As I mentioned, since our pre-registration is officially closed,
we'll have to handle this a bit manually. What I'm going to do
is send your list of people to my registration team (Ron and
Kimba Wilson) and they will e-mail back to you for just a little
additional information (birthdates and e-mails) for all of the
people on your list, and talk with you about how to arrange
payment.
When Ron and Kimba have your additional information, they'll
send your e-mails to Lady Sarah, our volunteers coordinator, who
will get with all of you individually about volunteer slots and
schedules.
I hope you all have a tremendous time at the con!
Regards,
Steve Gutterman
Penguicon 2.0 Chair
Message text written by Mary Farmer
Thanks for the response. I have attached a list of our member that are
planning on volunteering at the con. We would like to pre-register,
what do we need to do in order to preregister? I believe no one in our
group has pre-registered.
We are poor college students (plus our families miss us) so we are
planning on staying with our families while were are down there. My
parents live less than 10 minutes away so it is no big deal to us that
the hotel rooms are sold out.
We will not be able to do much with setup or tear-down because we are
planning on missing a minimal number of classes. We will probably be
arriving late Thursday night and leaving sometime Sunday afternoon. We
would be able to help with any remaining setup that needs to be done
Friday morning. We are pretty flexible with what we will do at the con
so just tell us what to do and we'll do it.
If you have any questions for me, feel free to email me.
-Mary
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:25, Steve Gutterman wrote:
Mary,
I'm sorry that this took so long to get back to you, we had a
bit of a handoff problem on this end. My apologies, and I
hope that has not caused you to miss any opportunities. We'll
do the best we can to work with you now on that.
Let me start by mentioning a couple of things you may want to
know in regards to volunteering at Penguicon. The first is
that we currently have a full volunteer staff on the technical
side (and have had it full for quite some time now), primarily
consisting of folks from the Metro Detroit Linux Users Group.
Currently, our only needs are for "general purpose" volunteers,
which means those folks that do things like cart boxes around,
> post signs on function rooms, pour beer or stock food in the
> Consuite (the main Hospitality Suite) and that sort of thing.
If any of you are interested in volunteering for those sort of
roles, we do offer a reimbursement of your registration fees
for those people that work six hours. You can either sign up
as a volunteer in advance, or at the convention.
Also, we have just closed our pre-registration, so ordinarily
anyone wishing to register now would have to wait and register
at the door. However, given that we delayed in getting back
to you on your question, I can offer to make a special
arrangement to pre-register people from your group within the
next couple of days, so that you don't come down from Michigan
Tech only to find Penguicon sold out.
You might also want to know that although the convention hotel
itself is sold out of Guest Rooms, we have arranged two
overflow hotels within walking distance. Details on this are
on our website. Its is also possible that there may be some
cancellations in the con hotel.
So there are the high points, so to speak. Please tell me
where we should go from here, whether you or any of the other
people in your group are already registered or whether you
would still need to register, and if any of you will wish to
volunteer. I can also answer any other questions on the con
that you may have.
Regards,
Steve Gutterman
Penguicon 2.0 Chair
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> Mary Farmer <mcfarmer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:07:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Mary Farmer
To: penguin-wrangler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: volunteer information
The Michigan Tech Linux Users Group would like to send a handful of our
members down to volunteer at Penguicon. We are all new to Penguicon so we
don't know what you need help with but we are willing to help with most
anything.
Pleas send me a response as soon as possible so that we can coordinate
excused absences from class.
-Mary
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PENGUICON v2.0 - Detroit Sheraton Novi - April 16-18, 2004
Guests: Neil Gaiman, Jeff Bates, | Combo SF/Fantasy & Linux Expo
Steve Jackson, Wil Wheaton, | Tech, Fen & Combination Programs
John "maddog" Hall, many others | LARP, Gaming, Dance, Masq, Hucksters
h t t p : / / w w w . p e n g u i c o n . o r g
******
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any
member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to
others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient
warrant." -- John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"
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