{"id":791,"date":"2010-03-19T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:39:21","slug":"free-writing-game-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/03\/free-writing-game-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Free \/ Writing \/ Game Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m attending <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.fsf.org\/wiki\/LibrePlanet2010\">LibrePlanet,<\/a> the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s conference and hackfest here in Cambridge. I don&#8217;t have anything to present or hack upon at this one, but I&#8217;ll be listening and learning more about free software and software freedom.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, I head to Grand Forks, ND for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undwritersconference.org\/\">University of North Dakota Writers Conference: Mind the Gap &#8211; Print, New Media, Art.<\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undwritersconference.org\/wc-authors.html\">featured authors and artists<\/a> this year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Spiegelman<\/li>\n<li>Frank X. Walker<\/li>\n<li>Nick Montfort<\/li>\n<li>Cecelia Condit<\/li>\n<li>Saul Williams<\/li>\n<li>Mark Amerika<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Moulthrop<\/li>\n<li>Deena Larsen<\/li>\n<li>Zeitgeist<\/li>\n<li>Kanser with More Than Lights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll return on Friday and head straight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paxsite.com\/paxeast\/index.php\">Penny Arcade Expo East<\/a> (PAX East) in Boston, where the confluence of about 60,000 gamers is expected. At 9:30pm on Friday is the world premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getlamp.com\/\">Jason Scott&#8217;s interactive fiction documentary <i>Get Lamp.<\/i><\/a> Afterwards is a panel with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Lebling (<i>Zork,<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Starcross,<\/i> <i>The Lurking Horror<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Steve Meretzky (<i>Planetfall, Hitchhiker&#8217;s, A Mind Forever Voyaging<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Nick Montfort (included in this august group for writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/twisty\/\">book about this stuff<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Moriarty (<i>Wishbringer,<\/i> <i>Trinity,<\/i> <i>Beyond Zork<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Plotkin (<i>Spider and Web,<\/i> <i>Shade,<\/i> <i>Dual Transform<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Don Woods (co-author with Will Crowther of the canonical first IF, <i>Adventure<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And <i>then,<\/i> on Monday, March 29, at 5:30pm in MIT&#8217;s room 14E-310, I&#8217;ll host a reading in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb series.<\/a> Emily Short (author of many award-winning interactive fiction pieces, including the recent <i>Alabaster<\/i>) and Jeremy Freese (winner of last year&#8217;s IF Comp for his <i>Violet<\/i>) will present and read from their work.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see some of you here in the Boston\/Cambridge area or, perhaps, in Grand Forks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m attending LibrePlanet, the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s conference and hackfest here in Cambridge. I don&#8217;t have anything to present or hack upon at this one, but I&#8217;ll be listening and learning more about free software and software freedom. On Tuesday, I head to Grand Forks, ND for the University of North Dakota Writers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/03\/free-writing-game-gatherings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free \/ Writing \/ Game Gatherings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,40,45,24,3,36,4,29,22,13],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-fiction","tag-free-software","tag-gatherings","tag-if","tag-mit","tag-poetry","tag-purple-blurb","tag-upcoming","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}