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

[Mike McMullin]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:14 -0800, Windsor UNIX Users Group 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.
> 

  I've been going ever since we all went that one year, except now I
take my family and they manage to find con stuff that they not only
enjoy, but end up asking if we can go next year.  :)  Hopefully, we'll
go this year as well.