Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan.
Guests of honor are Wil Wheaton, Jane McGonigal, Rasmus Lerdorf, Jon "maddog" Hall and Sarah Hoyt. Hack of Honor is Candyfab.
Nifty guests include Steve Eley, Elizabeth Bear, Cherie Priest, John Scalzi, Megan Rose Gedris, Jason Dunstan, Mark Savary, Tom Smith, Luke Ski, Dual Core, Catherine Devlin, Kyle Rankin, Jorge Castro, Bill Childers and Eric Raymond.
What is Penguicon?
- More than 1,000 geeks who gather annually in southeast Michigan to celebrate
- science fiction and fantasy
- free and open source software
- and other geek interests
- A party in a hotel
- all weekend
- bursting with creativity and intelligence
- and free beer
- Packed with scheduled content
- crossing disciplines
- full of celebrities and experts
- opening the source of everything by teaching you HOWTO
- encouraging you, the attendees, to teach us what you know
- A half-dozen conventions combined. Mix and match a weekend that's just for you!
- See our new tour of the Penguicon "solar system"!