Yesterday I went to a party at Lawrence's house, following a Turkey City science fiction writing workshop. (I wasn't at the workshop, of course, since I haven't written anything I wouldn't be embarrassed to show to others. :-)) Most people at the party, however, were Lawrence's coworkers and Austin science fiction fandom regulars, with a sprinkling ( Read more... )

Note. The corrections in cathyr19355's comment have been incorporated into this post since it was written.

Synopsis from Linucon program book: "Science Fiction authors we like, even though we think we shouldn't ( Read more... )

Synopsis from Linucon program book: "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."

Note: All the factual errors in this ( Read more... )

Knowing the troubles the organizational committee has been through this year, I expected a very chaotic, disorganized convention. And looking at their schedule and seeing how the panelists were a small subset of last year's panelists (and not many new people) reiterating some of the same topics as last year, I expected it might get just a taaaad ( Read more... )