Comments | ultimatepsi: Pi-Con rooming coordination

ultimatepsi

Pi-Con rooming coordination

Jul 30, 2009 15:35

So I know some of you were thinking about maybe going to Pi-Con this August 21-23, and I want to encourage you to do this. It'll be a good time. The website has up a tentative panel schedule, including a wide variety on of topics: SF&F literature, media, science, technology, writing, comics, filk, gaming, lifestyle, and fandom panels. It's not up ( Read more... )

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pezzonovante July 30 2009, 20:28:45 UTC

I think that my room is looking for a 4th. Obviously we reserve veto power, but I'm yielding mine to Chrisco, our 3rd roommate.

orawnzva July 31 2009, 03:15:35 UTC

I'll definitely be going to Pi-con, since I'm staff, and would be interested in getting in on a roomshare.

pezzonovante August 3 2009, 19:32:46 UTC

I talked to the others, we're cool. Just drop me an email and we can exchange contact info for actually doing the key exchange and the like.

orawnzva August 5 2009, 19:59:13 UTC

Super. I had reserved a room in case I didn't hear back from you or the roomshare otherwise didn't work out, but I can cancel that after I get in touch with you by email. I'm on vacation and only checking email sporadically, so I will probably be in touch early next week.

aralna July 31 2009, 01:46:15 UTC

I'd never heard of PiCon before, but it sounds really interesting. I lost count of the number of panels that actually sounded interesting. Usually I feel like I'm hard pressed to find even 5 over a weekend.

Since I don't yet have much vacation time built up in order to take Friday off, do you know how much a pass is for just Saturday? The website kindly tells me that they will exist, but nothing about price.

ultimatepsi July 31 2009, 03:17:03 UTC

I'm not sure how much a day pass for Saturday is, at a guess probably about $30-$35. Springfield is about 2 hours drive from me (I'm not sure where you're working these days), so it's possible to leave after work and catch a lot of Friday programming, especially if you have flex time and can leave before rush hour.

mystick358 July 31 2009, 02:22:27 UTC

I have a window in my schedule between moving day and the start of classes. About how expensive is this con, and how big?

ultimatepsi July 31 2009, 03:20:08 UTC

The con is on the small side, maybe about 300 people. It's $40 for the weekend if you register in advance, $50 at the door. If you have a student ID, it's only $25. Hotel rooms are $109/night, which isn't too bad if you can find people to split with. Hope to see you there!

s13 August 1 2009, 04:53:14 UTC

Wow, I never knew this was so close to where I live.

ledeir August 3 2009, 15:47:56 UTC

I'm going to PiCon (running Shadowrun) but I'll be crashing at my 'rents house.

pezzonovante August 3 2009, 18:53:05 UTC

Cool! You'll have to let me know when.