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Things happening in the Penguicon community in the near (or not-so-near) future. Many of these can also be found in the Penguicon Events calendar

Community Outings

Penguicon supports our sponsors and community by reaching out through local events. Email community@penguicon.org for information on helping with or attending these awesome opportunities!

ConCom Planning Meetings

ConCom Planning Meetings are open to the Penguicon Community and friends. Please bring agenda items, questions, ideas, etc. Recent meetings can be found at the ConCom Meetings page.

  • Hand-off + Kickoff ConCom Meeting
    • Come visit the new hotel,
    • Check out the space
    • Volunteer to help out
    • Talk about your ideas
    • Get next year rolling!

Hand-off/ Kickoff meeting details:

   May 25, 2013
   13:00 (1 PM EST )
   WINDOVER room, Westin Southfield

Programming Meetings

Programming Meetings serve as a planning format for the Programming Staff, email programming@penguicon.org for information.

Penguicon Meetups

These are generally public events where everyone is welcome. Some of these events may require an attendance cost, details will be listed when possible. Please feel free to share additional activities to be added to this list. Ongoing:

  • Every 2nd Tuesday - MUG Meeting 6pm-10:30pm, Farmington Community Library, 32737 W. 12 Mile Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302
  • Every Wednesday Night - Coffee House Coders East 8pm-10pm, Caribou Coffee 31901 Woodward Avenue Royal Oak, MI 48073
  • i3Detroit Game Night, Thursdays 7pm - 9pm
  • B. Nektar: Visit The Meadery, Friday: 5:30pm - 10:00pm, Saturday: 1:00pm - 7:00pm

Upcoming SMOS Dinners

Please let us know if you would like to host one!

Please email community at penguicon dot org if you are willing to host a SMOS dinner or fill out the SMOS dinner sign up form above!

Description

Penguicon.info is the “back end” of the Penguicon planning process. You might call it the “behind the scenes” stuff. This is where we will coordinate all of our work, keep our notes, and hopefully keep track of our learning from year to year. To that end, we have information stored in namespaces for past penguicons (viewable from the Index button below) and our current stuff (which will soon be linked from here, or viewable from the Index button below.

Getting Started

A wiki is a really great way for us all to collaborate and information share, but only if we use it in a reasonably intelligent fashion. Communication is essential. Here are some tips to get you started:

  • First, make sure you read the Syntax Guide. Bookmark it. Cherish it. Refer to it often. Additionally, you can do an edit of a page that looks similar to what you are trying to accomplish and see how the editor of that page did it. If you just want to play around to see how things work, please, use the playground.
  • If you think you need a new page created, please do the following first:
    • See if the content that you wish to add wouldn't really be better served in an existing page. Having an entire page for a sentence or two is a messy way to collaborate. Remember, this is not an encyclopedia, but a method of working together.
    • Determine what the best name would be for the page
    • Send an email to James detailing the page you would like created and what will be on it.
  • When making edits, please explain your edit in the Edit summary. While it might seem self explanatory to you, it might not be to the rest of us.
  • Create a section at the bottom of your page called Todo List. Under here, list things that need to be done to the page. This might be the most important thing you can do as it serves two important purposes:
    1. It allows others to know what is in the works so they don't do work that would mess that up.
    2. It gives others a chance to help out. If you need to add a series of links, someone else with time on their hands might come by and do it for you if you give them a chance.
  • Pass on thoughts, comments, questions, or concerns so that we can make this more useful and more effective as a tool.
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