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[[..:HeadOfProgramming]] for [[..:Penguicon2007]], [[..:MinisterOfCommunication]] for [[..:Penguicon2005]] and [[..:Penguicon2006]], [[..:Program Book]] for Penguicon 2004 through 2006 [[..:.ConChair]] for Penguicon 2007.

My first [[..:ScienceFiction]] convention was the first Penguicon. I've been helping to run it ever since, and have been a frequent panelist and presenter there in recent years. I presented the Lojban talk (see LojbanPresentation), and Coffee Ritual (see [[..:CoffeeRitual]]).

I have done desktop publishing for most of the ConFusion & Penguicon program books for the past decade. Frequent presenter/panelist/gamemaster. For the past ten years at Penguicon, variously: secretary, truck driver, GoH liaison, head of Programming, track head, Chair, assistant Chair, board member, and creator of website/signage/publications (usually multiple jobs at once). Past board member of the [[..:AnnArborScienceFictionAssociation]] which runs [[..:ConFusion]].

I am heavily involved in i3Detroit, a hacker space (community workshop) in Ferndale which was a [[..:HackOfHonor]] at Penguicon. By specific request, time permitting, I can provide occasional publications, displays, flyers, web ads, banners, & other graphics. Also custom manufacturing of promo items with a laser cutter, adhesive vinyl plotter, 3d printer, & possibly a vacuum former.

I have expert-level knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and In Design.

At PenguiCon 2.0 in 2004 I was on the PanelDiscussions "Cyber-Age Mythology" and "The Future of the Divine" with SF author SarahZettel and a panel with CathyRaymond about creating a costume at the last minute called "Help! I Forgot My Costume." At PenguiCon 3.0 in 2005 I was on the PanelDiscussion "Collaborative Online Fiction" with SF authors CoryDoctorow and JohnScalzi.

I prefer to read Fictionwise ScienceFiction e-books on the screen of my handheld computer rather than buy them on paper. I'm a fan of [[CoryDoctorow]] and personally got him as a GoH for 2005, and fan of [[ChristinePeterson]] and [[CharlieStross]] who I got as GoHs for 2007.

I wrote [[http://matt-arnold.livejournal.com/148281.html#cutid1|post on my blog]] about what open source software and science fiction might gain from each other at Penguicon.