We continue to preview all of the amazing guests that will be at Penguicon this year. If you missed the previous posts make sure you check them out 1, 2, and 3. We are maintaining a full list of all of our guests at This Year at Penguicon.
#teamswoop
#teamswoop is a collective of musician/artist homies from the Detroit area. They’ve gained a rep around the con/fest scene as the crew who is always partying harder and playing louder than anyone else around.
With styles ranging from chip to juke to breaks and about 17 things in between, a #teamswoop party has something for everyone. even if it’s just a tall glass of bunny milk.
Emily Gonyer
Emily Gonyer is a grown unschooler and 2002 graduate of Clonlara School in Ann Arbor. She has been using and encouraging the use of free software since the mid-90s, when she first began to use GNU/Linux.
In 2011 she participated in GNOME’s Outreach Program for Women working with the GNOME Engagement Team. Following her OPW internship she was a successful Google Summer of Code student working on GNOME Clocks with Seif Lotfy, Allan Day and Eslam Mostafa.
Since then she has continued to contribute to the GNOME project as well as Wikimedia, Mozilla and Ubuntu.
IT in the D – Dave Phillips and Bob Waltenspiel
What started as three guys forming a networking group at a bar in Ferndale has blossomed to close to 5,000 members. The guys who founded Detroitnet.org expanded to offer the “Pink Slip Party”, where the only attendees could be people looking to hire IT professionals, and IT professionals looking for work.
In 2013, responding to the call of “There really isn’t a good local tech podcast”, “IT in the D” began. The live show has guests from local IT staffing companies, business owners and C-level executives.
Host Bob Waltenspiel has worked for NTT, NEC, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Cisco Systems, and was awarded the Elite 40 under 40 designation from L Brooks Patterson.
Host Dave Phillips has been a helpdesk jockey, a team lead, a systems architect and even a Vice President over the course of his more than 20 years in information technology.
Jeannie Arquette
Jeannie‘s has a background in art, fashion, and costume design, She is also a highly skilled face and body painter. A twenty-year veteran of the Fashion and beauty industry, Jeannie has received multiple awards in fashion design and body painting.
Her other skills include traditional beauty and creative makeup, film/tv/theatrical/costume makeup, airbrushing & special effects. Jeannie offers training classes and workshops and is also the designer/creator of Artifice FX a line of prosthetics and creates beautiful custom stencils.
Jeannie also loves to paint on canvas and almost anything else she can get her hands on.
Samuel Hansen
There is a surprisingly high likelihood that if you have ever listened to a mathematical podcast that you have heard Samuel Hansen’s voice.
Of course, that also means that there is a surprisingly low likelihood that you have heard Samuel Hansen’s voice, given that it is rather unlikely that you have actually listened to a mathematical podcast.
Samuel is the person behind the ACMEScience network of podcasts, featuring shows like Science Sparring Society, Strongly Connected Components, and the twice Kickstarted Relatively Prime.
He enjoys long walks in front of whiteboards, wearing headphones during any hours he is not asleep, and very large batches of single origin decaffeinated coffee. Oh, and he loves talking about mathematics too.