Archive for July, 2007

Virtual Mini-con update

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In just two weeks, the Conflux 4 Virtual Mini-con hits the internet! For 24 hours, various guests and members of the convention will be appearing in the forums at www.conflux.org.au to chat with people. Entry to the mini-con is free, all you need is a computer, internet access and the time! Okay, it’s not really “free” but you get what I mean.
It will take place from noon Saturday August 4 to noon Sunday August 5. There will be lucky door prizes and people who come along will be eligible for a special membership price for Conflux 4, taking place in Canberra September 28 to October 1.
Guests attending:

  • Garth Nix
  • Simon Brown
  • Jonathan Strahan
  • Kaaron Warren
  • Donna Maree Hanson
  • Fiona McIntosh
  • Richard Harland
    Karen Miller
  • Maxine McArthur
  • Chirs Barnes
  • Gillian Polack
  • Fiona McLennan
  • Anita Bell
  • Keith Stevenson
  • Melaina Faranda
  • Nicole R Murphy
  • Mark Deniz and Sharyn Lilley
  • Glenda Larke
  • Karen Traviss
  • SciFi in Cyberspace group

The full timetable will be available at www.conflux.org.au in the next week. There will also be a lounge area for people to just hand and chat (the online equivalent of the bar at a con, except you have to provide your own alcohol). Hope to see you there.

 
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Virtual Mini-con

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

I’ve just found out I’ve been telling people the wrong dates for the virtual mini-con. It’s taking place August 4 to August 5, Saturday midday to Sunday midday. It was always my intention to run it Saturday to Sunday, I just got the dates wrong. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

 
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Three months to go

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Just three months until Conflux 4, and here are the things we are confident are going to happen (can never guarantee of course, anything can happen in the next three months, but still…)

* Our guests are all booked and ready to fly/drive into town - Graham Joyce, Kevin J Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Jonathan Strahan, Garth Nix, Simon Brown, Kaaron Warren and Donna Maree Hanson are all looking forward to meeting you all

* Regency Gothic Banquet - the menu has been presented to the hotel and we’re just waiting on the final say-so, but the chef is really excited about it. It’s the same team that put together the much-lauded medieval feast last year, so it’s going to be great.

* Film festival - Rob Hood has been pulling together some fantastic films, and information about one of the features we’ll be showing is now available on the website.

* Podcasting - Joffre Street Productions are coming up from Tasmania to podcast the panels at the convention, and they’ll be available on the website following the convention.

* Dealers room - we’ve had some bookings, it’s going to be a finite space so if you want to be part of the fun, best get in as soon as possible.

* Workshops - it looks like we’re going to have 13 workshops, most of them free for members, covering a whole range of things.

* Panel program - we’re working hard to ensure that we cover as many things as people suggest as we can, keeping to the theme of Heroes from Near and Afar.

And we’re working on other aspects - art display, other social events, souvenir book, tshirts and lots of fun.

So, do you have your membership yet?

 
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