The Virtual Tucker Hotel

: ceemage; November 15th, 15:41

Current Location:: not Nottingham

( Technical neepery and an apology )

Steve Green tells us all about his TAFF trip and what he got up to at the Worldcon (re-run)

Sunday 15th November, 1.00 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Sunday 15th November, 4.00 pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Sunday 15th November, 9.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Sunday 15th November, 9.00 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Monday 16th November, 5.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Monday 16th November, 8.00 am EADT (Eastern Australian Daylight Time)
Monday 16th November, 10.00 am NZDT (New Zealand Daylight Time)

The ustream channel remains at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/novacon

Addition to the Novacon webcast schedule

: ceemage; November 14th, 13:10

Current Location:: Nottingham

Well, sort of. Steve Green's TAFF Tales talk tonight at 9 p.m. con time will be preceded by Ang Rosin's announcement of the candidates for the 2010 Going Under Fan Fund race. This is likely to be a high-profile fan fund race, given that the destination is the Australian Worldcon next year.

Novacon video stream

: ceemage; November 13th, 18:50

Current Location:: Nottingham (soon)

If my embedding-fu proves strong enough, there should be an embedded version of the video stream ( behind the cut )
Alternatively, you can go to the show page on ustream.

Novacon schedule

: ceemage; November 12th, 20:51

Current Location:: Nottingham (soon)

Usual Caveat: All of these plans are subject to us getting a suffciently good internet connection to be able to stream video live from the convention. However, assuming everything works, we will be aiming to stream video from several panels and other events:

Yours Sincerely, Charles Darwin: Public Scientist, Private Man.
From his voyage round the world on HMS Beagle, to his last research on earthworms, Charles Darwin left a remarkable record of his life and work, his hopes, dreams, and fears - and even what made him laugh - in a collection of private letters and papers. Dr. Alison Pearn, Assistant Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, gives us a unique and private insight into the man who was credited with changing the way we see the world (and reveals whether he really did bear any resemblance to Paul Bettany...)

Saturday 14th November, 2.00 am PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 4.00 am EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 10.00 am UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Saturday 14th November, 10.00 am GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Saturday 14th November, 6.00 pm WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 9.00 pm EADT (Eastern Australian Daylight Time)
Saturday 14th November, 11.00 pm NZDT (New Zealand Daylight Time)

Guest of Honour Interview

Come and get to know Justina Robson our Guest of Honour. Interviewed by Pauline Morgan.

Saturday 14th November, 5.30 am PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 8.30 am EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 1.30 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Saturday 14th November, 1.30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Saturday 14th November, 9.30 pm WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Sunday 15th November, 12.30 am EADT (Eastern Australian Daylight Time)
Sunday 15th November, 2.30 am NZDT (New Zealand Daylight Time)

Steve Green's TAFF Tales

Steve Green tells us all about his TAFF trip and what he got up to at the Worldcon.

Saturday 14th November, 1.00 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 4.00 pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Saturday 14th November, 9.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Saturday 14th November, 9.00 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Sunday 15th November, 5.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Sunday 15th November, 8.00 am EADT (Eastern Australian Daylight Time)
Sunday 15th November, 10.00 am NZDT (New Zealand Daylight Time)

The main show page is at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/novacon, but I'll try embedding the video stream here as well. Details of how to get involved are in the latest issue of Virtual Tucker Hotel (PDF).

Novacon

: ceemage; November 3rd, 5:39

Our next series of events in The Virtual Fan Lounge will focus around Novacon, the annual convention in the English Midlands, which celebrates its 39th year this year from a new venue in Nottingham.

Novacon takes place over the weekend of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th November, 2009.

We are still building our exact schedule for the weekend, but will definitely several hours of live panel coverage from the convention, mainly focused on the Saturday. We will post a 'definitive' schedule just before the convention – plus any updates during the convention – here.

More details in the latest issue of Virtual Tucker Hotel.

A Marvel-ous Panel

: ceemage; October 19th, 20:03

We may have some more live events to announce Real Soon Now. In the meantime, here's another panel recording, this time from the 2009 British International Comics Show, on 70 Years of Marvel, as recorded by the Geek Syndicate Podcast people.

British Fantasy Awards Live

: kevin_standlee; September 19th, 11:32

Assuming the technology works as it should, SF AwardsWatch will be providing live coverage of the British Fantasy Awards at 1 PM Pacific time today (4 PM EDT, 9 PM British Summer Time). I'm "in the studio" as an off-site moderator. I hope we'll 'see' you there.

2009 Worldcon WSFS Business Meeting videos

: ceemage; August 31st, 11:08

Triggered by a comment on a previous entry, a quick pointer that Kevin Standlee's been uploading the Business Meeting videos from the 2009 Worldcon to here.

Tingling with Anticipation

: ceemage; August 7th, 6:57

Current Location:: not Montreal :-(

Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon, takes place in Montreal over this weekend. We haven't been able to arrange coverage from the Fanzine Lounge at this event. However, this doesn't mean that you can't get "virtually involved" in the Worldcon in other ways:

Steve "for TAFF" Green Video Diary

Steve Green, our TAFF delegate to the Worldcon, is doing a series of video diaries from his trip. You can catch them at the TAFF community on livejournal at http://community.livejournal.com/taff2009/ or directly on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnLogieBaird

ConReporter.com

Although there's no plans for a video stream on this site, they will be using the CoverItLive system to provide text coverage of many of the important parts of the Worldcon. This is in addition to the regular "mash-up" of blogs from a wide variety of bloggers attending the convention. The blogs are at the main index page at http://www.conreporter.com/, whilst the CoverItLive feeds are linked to at http://www.conreporter.com/?page_id=9

Reno in 2011 Parties

Finally, what Louis B. Mayer would refer to as a 'definite maybe.' The Reno in 2011 may be doing some ustream video coverage from some of their parties at the convention. More details to follow if/when we have them.

Volunteers needed for Anticipation Fanzine Lounge

: ceemage; July 16th, 21:41

Is there anyone about who could help with the set-up of a Virtual Fanzine Lounge at Anticipation, the Montreal Worldcon? Lloyd Penney has just been able to confirm that there will be free wifi at the Fanzine Lounge, but is understandably cautious about getting this all set up by himself. Is there anyone who could drop in to show him how to set this all up? I can help (to an extent) remotely from over here, but there's nothing like having someone on site to talk to.

The hours for the fanzine lounge itself are:

Thursday 11am - 6pm
Fri, Sat, Sun 10am - 6pm
Monday 10am - 4pm

All presumably EDT (Eastern Daylight Saving Time). Actual broadcast times to be determined if/when we get a volunteer...

Baycon on Monday

: ceemage; May 25th, 8:25

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-virtual-fan-lounge

A slight change to the planned schedule - we are going to be dreadfully unfannish, and leave the Fanzine Lounge in order to go to a panel. A fannish panel, mind you.

The Hugos: Do They Matter?
So, what does "Hugo Winner" actually mean? Is a Hugo more important than a Ditmar? And who votes on these things, anyway? Join us and find out.
Chris Garcia (M), Randy Smith, Kevin Standlee, Milt Stevens

Monday 25th May 1.00 pm PDT (Pacifc Daylight Time)
Monday 25th May, 4.00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Monday 25th May, 8.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Monday 25th May, 9.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Tuesday 26th May, 4.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Tuesday 26th May, 6.00 am EADT (Eastern Australian Daylight Time)
Tuesday 24th May, 8.00 am NZDT (New Zealand Daylight Time)

Usual caveats apply - there are many things that could go wrong with this, not least that we haven't checked the wifi in that function room yet. But we have several contingency plans in place, so we'll see what we can do.

Spread the word...

Webcasting from Baycon

: ceemage; May 22nd, 7:19

Kat Templeton at Baycon and me "in the studio" will be doing some webcasting from this year's Baycon, being held this weekend at the The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, California. This will mainly be focused on the Baycon Fanzine Lounge, but we may be able to cover a panel or two as well. More details - including a draft schedule - in Virtual Tucker Hotel 24, or ( behind the cut )

Testing, testing, one-two, one-two...

: ceemage; May 20th, 19:47

katster and myself will be doing some test broadcasting starting at the top of the hour (i.e. about 10 minutes after the timestamp on this posting) as a dry-run for some possible webcasting from this weekend's Baycon. You are all welcome to join us at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-virtual-fan-lounge as an impromptu peanut gallery -- if nothing else, feedback on things like sound levels and picture quality would be welcome.

#lxtra chat room transcript available

: ceemage; April 18th, 4:50

Current Location:: back home

Current Mood:: fannish

Just to note that, as usual, we had tuckerbot running the whole weekend (thanks this time to Kat Templeton), so have a complete transcript of the #lxtra text chat room. We're not going to post this anywhere on the web, to keep it away from the all-seeing eye of Google and the like. But if any fan would like a copy, just e-mail me ( ceemage "at" livejournal.com ) and I'll send one along.

Feedback Welcomed

: stevegreen; April 14th, 16:55

So, what did you think? Have you any suggestions for improving the service in future, possibly if

ceemage and I dust it off for Novacon 39?

Monday and Revised Sunday schedule

: ceemage; April 12th, 19:38

Current Location:: not Bradford

Current Mood:: fannish

Rock Band II - Battle of the Bands: After the more fannish items, a bit of fun. Rock Band has been one of leading contenders in the new genre of music-making computer games in the last few years, and version 2 will be released in Europe Real Soon Now. But Forbidden Planet have got hold of advance copies, and will be using it to stage a Battle of the Bands competition at Eastercon. Your enjoyment of this item is likely to be fairly closely correlated to your attitude to karaoke... (3 hours)
David Devereux, Danie Ware.

Sunday 12th April, 2.00 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Sunday 12th April, 5.00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Sunday 12th April, 9.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Sunday 12th April, 10.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Monday 13th April, 5.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Monday 13th April, 7.00 am EAST (Eastern Australian Standard Time)
Monday 13th April, 9.00 am NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)

Hugos for Fans: The panellists discuss the current Hugo nominations for fan writer, fan artist, and fanzine. What was overlooked? Who was included once again? Which should win, and why? And what do the awards mean, anyway? (75 minutes)
Claire Brialey, Steve Green, Bill Burns, Liz Batty

Monday 13th April, 4.30 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Monday 13th April, 7.30 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Monday 13th April, 11.30 am UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Monday 13th April, 12.30 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Monday 13th April, 7.30 pm WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Monday 13th April, 9.30 pm EAST (Eastern Australian Standard Time)
Monday 13th April, 11.30 pm NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)

..plus hopefully some more informal programming for the rest of Monday.

Sunday schedule

: ceemage; April 12th, 14:27

Current Location:: not Bradford

Current Mood:: fannish

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/LXtra

Not sure if we will actually have any events for the Sunday yet -- we are trying to sort out coverage of one of the Sunday night social events, but this is still a bit "up in the air" at the moment. As ever, watch this space for the latest developments. Meanwhile, we have one definite event for Monday, which I'll post about later.

Ostensibly as a courtesy to our panellists (but in reality because I keep forgetting), we've not been recording most of the panels. But we do have recordings available of some of our other happenings:

The TAFF Interview with candidates Tom Womack and Steve Green (11 mins)
Reno in 2011 at Eastercon: Geri Sullivan talks to Ben Yalow about the bid, and they both answer questions from the text chat room. (20 mins)

Additions to the Saturday schedule

: ceemage; April 11th, 13:00

Current Location:: Bradford

Current Mood:: fannish

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/LXtra

Between the end of the Fanzines 101 panel item (say about 3.15 p.m. local time) and the start of the Fan Funds panel item at 6.00 p.m. local, we'll be leaving the webcam on for general chat and two specific planned items (exact times to be confirmed):

Vote for TAFF: Steve Green and Tom Womack will try to convince you to vote in the current TAFF election. Maybe even for one of them.

Reno in 2011: Geri Sullivan skypes in to the convention to talk to the Reno in 2011 bid team at the convention, and find out how the sale of those all-important pre-supports are going...

Exact times when we have them, either here or in the ustream channel itself.

Saturday schedule and other useful info

: ceemage; April 11th, 1:27

Current Location:: Bradford

Current Mood:: fannish

Fanzines 101 - "Find out more about the mysteries of fanzines. Some current editors tell you how easy it is to publish within the fannish community." (75 minutes)
Mark Plummer, Alison Scott, Bill Burns, John Coxon, Peter Sullivan.

Saturday 11th April, 6,00 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Saturday 11th April, 9.00 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Saturday 11th April, 1.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Saturday 11th April, 2.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Saturday 11th April, 9.00 pm WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Saturday 11th April, 11.00 pm EAST (Eastern Australian Standard Time)
Sunday 12th April, 1.00 am NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)

Fan Funds Rock - "The panellists discuss the purpose and advantedges of fan funds and explain why they are still relevant to fandom today." (50 minutes)
Christina Lake, Chris O'Shea, Lillian Edwards, Tom Womack, Steve Green.

Saturday 11th April, 10.00 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Saturday 11th April, 1.00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Saturday 11th April, 5.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Saturday 11th April, 6.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Sunday 12th April, 1.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Sunday 12th April, 3.00 am EAST (Eastern Australian Standard Time)
Sunday 12th April, 5.00 am NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)

( Some techie notes on resetting frozen feeds )

What people have been saying about LXtra:
Geri Sullivan - http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/197165.html
Cheryl Morgan - http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=4475
Me - http://ceemage.livejournal.com/32383.html

Friday schedule and contact details

: ceemage; April 9th, 22:26

Current Location:: not Bradford (yet)

At the moment, we only have one event on the Friday that we are definitely covering for LXtra, but we may be in a position to add a few more once we actually get to the convention. If so, we'll provide updates here.

Bill and Mary Burns, Fan Guests of Honour.

Friday 10th April, 1.00 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Friday 10th April, 4.00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Friday 10th April, 8.00 pm UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time)
Friday 10th April, 9.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Saturday 11th April, 4.00 am WAST (Western Australian Standard Time)
Saturday 11th April, 6.00 am EAST (Eastern Australian Standard Time)
Saturday 11th April, 8.00 am NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)
...or in other time zones here

Our streaming video will be at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/LXtra.

Meanwhile, contact details for both of us are ( behind the cut )

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