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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/30/13 17:15, Clay Dowling wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/30/2013 05:08 PM, <a
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Hi,
everyone.
<div> I started sending notes to the Penguicon programming
/ presentation chairs about 10 weeks ago. I never got a
single response from anyone.</div>
<div> Last Wednesday, one of my colleagues at IBM asked me
why I hadn't told him I was speaking at Penguicon. That
was the first I had heard that I was scheduled. </div>
<div> I sent off a relatively polite nastigram to the head
of programming explaining that since I had no response (and
therefore no confirmmation) prior to two days before I was
supposed to be there, that it was, unfortunately, no longer
an option.</div>
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The normal situation with those aliases is that the addresses are
not connected to people's mailboxes. Chances are very good that
nobody ever received those messages.<br>
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What I've had to do multiple times in the past is send follow-up
messages to the penguicon general list to rattle cages. That will
either get a response from the responsible party, or more likely,
generate a shit storm.<br>
<br>
Clay<br>
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I've only once had a problem with getting a panel set up; they
forgot<br>
about the OpenBSD panel in 2008, missing the printed guide but we<br>
were in the pocket guide.<br>
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Overall, I think Penguicon has done a better job of running things<br>
than most professional events. There are certainly glitches, but<br>
I think they're getting better with time?<br>
<br>
I had a great time and wish I could have forked myself.<br>
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--STeve Andre'<br>
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