Hey all, just wanted to drop by and let you know I'm still alive.
At the moment, there's been a few pressing issues in my work life, send me evemails and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Given that N'maro's become quite busy offline I'll step up and see if I can cover for him at least in the interim. I've already received some of the expressions of interest people have sent in - if you're yet to receive a reply and didn't send them to me directly in the first place, evemail them to me again.
If there's people wanting to help out with the organising committee (SCLC) also send me evemail or throw your hand up on these forums.
Now to specific responses:
We could, possibly, write up some things.
For Day 1 - Outbreaks of Debylian Flu
For Day 2 - Sebiestor Brain Structures. CTCS Crew Replacement Program. Archaelogical Discoveries from the Wombat People. Use of Miniature Robotics in Biological Studies.
Received your expression of interest, still considering it but it looks good. Would you mind writing us a summary of your talk(s) when ready or in draft stage?
Ohh a symposium! I don't suppose black market economics is a topic... If not I can just set and glare at Anslo. 
Manipulation of black and grey market economics is probably related to the over-arching theme of the first day - if you want to speak at SeyCon on this James, we're more than happy to see what you have to say.
Biology? Abstract? Call for papers? Yes? No? SCIENCE?!
Indeed! Get something together, you beach-hut owning microbiologist you
I have a topic. Should I do a full writeup of the entire presentation, or just an outline to submit ahead of time?
Saede, I think I've already got your ideas in a backlog of mail somewhere - will find it and review it, sorry about the tardiness. An outline is fine if you need to get ideas on paper that we can advise on, but we need a full presentation at some point prior to the conference beginning (see below - submission deadlines haven't been formally decided on just yet). Given the IGS postings from Streya earlier this year, ALXVP's take on transhumanism and what its experience has been in w-space over the last 12 months would fit quite well with the proposed themes for this conference.
AOkazon, Aelisha - looking forward to seeing what you've come up with, evemail me when you've got a idea for what you want to present.
Makoto - I love the idea of a roundtable such as you've proposed. We'd need to get some other panelists and develop a structure for audience interaction, but I think something like this would be interesting and a refreshing change from the format seen in previous SeyCons. I'll need to find those other panelists and twist a few arms on the organising committee of course, but I have a lot of things I can use to
coerce co-operation if necessary ....
Morwen - I think you were added to the organising committee about 3.2 seconds after you posted your response
Kat - Thanks and we'll be in touch. In an I-RED press conference a while back, you presented some RP'd technology that I-RED was either working or rolling out for sale - something to do with low orbit harvesting from gas planets if my memory's correct. That and some of your other world-building efforts might also be quite interesting to see at SeyCon if there's not some sort of IC reason to keep it hushed up?
I'll try to update as we finalise the format of the conference and make decisions on how we'll run it. For now, I want to reinforce one or two of the points in N'maro's original post.
The date is currently looking like a weekend in late October/first weekend of November. We'll try to keep the window for submission of presentations open as long as possible, but the deadline is likely to be no later than 2 weeks before the conference. The idea of 'science' in EVE is sometimes a difficult one to address in RP. What we're looking for isn't 'absolute' or 'incontrovertible' evidence, simply because the science of the world of New Eden isn't well enough defined to insist on that. What we are looking for are interesting ideas, with enough of the 'basics' of science (or economics, or combat, or whatever) in them to provide immersion. If you can base it on your own observations, experiences in the game or even on reproducible results from game mechanics so much the better.
The second point is the one about who can attend or present. The key difference between this and recent SeyCons is that we're leaving the gates open to all here this year whereas previously we've been restrictive. There may well be a few conditions, but for the moment if you've got something to present or if you want to attend don't let previous or current adversarial dealings with us as a corporation dissuade you from seeing if you're allowed through the door.
Hope to hear from more of you soon.
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