Did my first thing in the morning room check but the hotel is handling set-up beautifully and the only problem was no AV equipment on the 2nd floor which we quickly remedied. Have developed the habit of checking rooms/panels every hour or so and gently circulating the con looking for problems - also getting in some fine chatting while panels are running.
Frontiers: Commons and Copyright Creativity in the Internet Age was the first of my two official panels and was really a chance to vibrate with enthusiasm about the Organization for Transformative Works and its projects - particularly the Archive Of Our Own. I love doing that! I also learned more about Creative Commons, Copyright and Curtin University's struggle to embrace web 2.0.
I utterly failed to record Hard SF with the soft sciences which is breaking my heart because I wanted to hear Richard Morgan talking about it.
Guest of Honour Speech - Richard Morgan I *did* record this and manade to attend and he was warm, chatty and interesting. He talked about his writing process and about getting Altered Carbon published then opened up the floor for questions which flowed enthusiastically.
I missed Banned Books and plan to hunt up![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
emma_in_oz's list because the play-by-play I got later sounded brilliant.
Strong Women in New Who, the Whedonverse, and SFF was so packed that the organisers snuck in and held a quick conference before running a fabulous round-table discussion with a passionate and engaged audience. We talked about Rose, Martha, Donna, Sarah Jane, Buffy, Tara, Dawn, Willow, Inara, Zoe (who is incredibly sexy), 'M', Caprica Six, Tory, Boomer and more. I managed to record this too. Apparently its damn near impossible to be genuinely powerful and sexy at the same time :(
Channel Flicking I saw the end of and may not be forgetting the horror any time soon - the child-hunting balloons were especially disturbing.
Have established that the woofer does not get separation anxiety if I leave my bedroom door open when I leave in the morning. I also have a woofer shaped dent on my bed.
Frontiers: Commons and Copyright Creativity in the Internet Age was the first of my two official panels and was really a chance to vibrate with enthusiasm about the Organization for Transformative Works and its projects - particularly the Archive Of Our Own. I love doing that! I also learned more about Creative Commons, Copyright and Curtin University's struggle to embrace web 2.0.
I utterly failed to record Hard SF with the soft sciences which is breaking my heart because I wanted to hear Richard Morgan talking about it.
Guest of Honour Speech - Richard Morgan I *did* record this and manade to attend and he was warm, chatty and interesting. He talked about his writing process and about getting Altered Carbon published then opened up the floor for questions which flowed enthusiastically.
I missed Banned Books and plan to hunt up
emma_in_oz's list because the play-by-play I got later sounded brilliant.Strong Women in New Who, the Whedonverse, and SFF was so packed that the organisers snuck in and held a quick conference before running a fabulous round-table discussion with a passionate and engaged audience. We talked about Rose, Martha, Donna, Sarah Jane, Buffy, Tara, Dawn, Willow, Inara, Zoe (who is incredibly sexy), 'M', Caprica Six, Tory, Boomer and more. I managed to record this too. Apparently its damn near impossible to be genuinely powerful and sexy at the same time :(
Channel Flicking I saw the end of and may not be forgetting the horror any time soon - the child-hunting balloons were especially disturbing.
Have established that the woofer does not get separation anxiety if I leave my bedroom door open when I leave in the morning. I also have a woofer shaped dent on my bed.
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