[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] ezod: Penguicon on a Whuffie Economy

[Matthew Johnston]

I want to go but the Ontario Linux fest has still left a bad taste in my
mouth.  I'll decide based on how my work schedule is as opposed to planning
to go now.



On Jan 24, 2008 12:14 PM, Windsor UNIX Users Group <mavrinac at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Author: ezod
> Username: ezod (eh238-1-wr.ends.uwindsor.ca)
> Subject: Penguicon on a Whuffie Economy
> Forum: WUUG Talk
> Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,93,93#msg-93
> Approved: Yes
>
> The hybrid Linux and sci-Fi/fantasy convention Penguicon, which takes
> place each spring in Detroit, and which a few of us WUUG members attended in
> its first few years, has turned its volunteer rewards system into a Whuffie
> economy based on Cory Doctorow's awesome book, Down and Out in the Magic
> Kingdom. If you aren't familiar with it, it's kind of a Slashdot-style karma
> system for a real life economy, and I love the idea.
>
> On that note, is anyone thinking about going this year? Linux-related GoHs
> and nifty guests include Jono Bacon, Benjamin Mako Hill, Lucy Snyder, Jorge
> Castro, and Kyle Rankin, Eric S. Raymond, Dr. Peter Salus, and Chris DiBona.
>
>
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