{"id":382,"date":"2018-11-23T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:16:57","slug":"needed-candidates-for-2020-penguicon-convention-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Needed: Candidates for 2020 Penguicon Convention Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everyone,<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0Board is currently looking for people interested in being the 2020 Penguicon Convention Chair.\u00a0 Yes, this is the person “in charge”, the one that organizes running the whole event for that year.\u00a0 If you’ve been involved with\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0(or even if you haven’t, but know about us and think you would make a good candidate) please e-mail me and put your name in for our consideration.\u00a0 We will ask candidates to come to the January Penguicon\u00a0Board meeting to talk to us about why you think you would make a good Chair for Penguicon\u00a02019, what you bring to the convention, and why you’d have a boatload of fun doing it. (A carload will not be sufficient, you must be prepared to have at least a boatload.\u00a0 A *big* boat.)<\/p>\n

The key information:<\/p>\n

The job: The convention\u00a0Chair\u00a0is responsible for everything having to do with organizing, running, and surviving each year’s\u00a0Penguicon.\u00a0 They have complete authority over the convention, subject only to the\u00a0Penguicon’s\u00a0Bylaws, permanent policies, and the budget.\u00a0 They solicit guests, find volunteers, organize departments, arrange a hotel, filter suggestions, herd cats, whack moles, and discourage programming suggestions that would run afoul of either the fire department or police.\u00a0 (Or, instead of discouraging them, they find a way to do them *without* running afoul of local laws!)\u00a0 They also get to coordinate the work of dozens of bright, motivated, fascinating and enthusiastic staff members, and hopefully delegate most of the work to them.\u00a0 For this massive and difficult task, they receive no compensation, have to sweat blood, might possibly get an occasional thank you, and enjoy the love of a thousand and some odd (some very odd) convention attendees that think that\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0is the neatest thing since sliced bread, and actually probably a bit neater, since, after all, sliced bread really IS kind of yesterday.<\/p>\n

Applying: Send an e-mail with your name and contact information (e-mail and phone, please) to me at this address: SteveGutterman at\u00a0GMail dot com.\u00a0 Do this before January 12, 2019; because on that day at HIGH NOON (12pm EST) we will ask you to come to the\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0Board and talk to us about your interest in being the\u00a0ConChair.\u00a0 Also feel free to e-mail me at that same address if you’d just like more information.<\/p>\n

We very much encourage all interested to apply, and anyone interested in talking to the candidates is invited to the January Board meeting.\u00a0 (All\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0Board meetings are open to all interested persons. Or even disinterested persons.) This meeting will be held at the following location:<\/p>\n

PenguiCorp World Headquarters
\n29200 Lake Park Dr
\nFarmington Hills, MI 48331<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You can see a map to the location here:\u00a0https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ydhxpksk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Everyone, The\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0Board is currently looking for people interested in being the 2020 Penguicon Convention Chair.\u00a0 Yes, this is the person “in charge”, the one that organizes running the whole event for that year.\u00a0 If you’ve been involved with\u00a0Penguicon\u00a0(or even if you haven’t, but know about us and think you would make a good candidate) please e-mail me and put your name in for our consideration.\u00a0 We will ask candidates to come to the January Penguicon\u00a0Board meeting to talk to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}