DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] A-Kon report...

Thu Jun 5 12:32:20 CDT 2008

Hi Steve:

If we are really interested in the club doing another convention, there is a medium-sized anime con in Dallas over Labor Day called AnimeFest. (http://www.animefest.org/). It’s a lot smaller than A-kon, but still pretty respectable.

Any comments?

-Martin Meier

--- On Sat, 5/31/08, R. Steven Rainwater <srainwater at ncc.com> wrote:

> From: R. Steven Rainwater <srainwater at ncc.com>
> Subject: [DPRG] A-Kon report...
> To: dprglist at dprg.org
> Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008, 2:24 PM
> I stopped by A-Kon around noon today and picked up my
> credentials. I ran
> into Eric - he said Ed and Doug were around somewhere too.
> This is my
> first time at A-Kon. The size of the thing is pretty
> amazing. There are
> hundreds of people in crazy costumes wandering around
> everywhere. Mostly
> anime but I saw a Ronanld McDonald and a Hamburgler as well
> as the usual
> things like storm troopers and Star Gate characters. 
> 
> As far as robot stuff, there are assorted anime robots and
> cyborgs and
> Japanese robot toys. Eric said there were some battletech
> simulators
> somewhere which are sorta kinda robot related. At 5pm this
> afternoon,
> there is a panel discussion on advances in robotics.
> It's called
> Robotics Part II so there was probably another one
> yesterday. Sounds
> like something the DPRG ought to get in on next time
> around. 
> 
> -Steve
> 
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