Figured I'd spend a bit of time to explain a bit more about this site and address some questions that people have.

Do I really need to sign up?

Yes!  Well, no.  I'd really like you to, cause it makes life easy for us organizers.  See, we've got a list of names that we need to get in touch with.  If we can get everyone  on that list to sign up here, then that'd be only one list to deal with.  As it stands we've got two lists to go through for contacting everyone... and by the way, the phone calls start on the 25th, one month prior to the event - sign up now so I'm not bugging you, cause I don't respect the Do-Not-Call registry...  *ahem*

But no, you don't have to sign up.  If you could do us the favor of at least subscribing to the newsletter (there's a sign-up box on the left, just requires an email address) you'll be sent news via email.  I plan to keep Newsletter issues as infrequent as possible, cause I hate spam and my inbox is an unwieldy beast that requires a priest and a virgin sacrifice to manage.

WTF?! I need my address to sign up?

Yeah, well, kinda, sorta.  Those of you who've been to PiQNics past know that we usually have a sign up sheet that asks for your name and address and other contact info so that we can get ahold of you for the next one - this is just an extension of that.  My goal is to have it set up so that before each PiQNic we can send out postcard invites along with emails - and in this way decrease the rediculous amount of phone calls needed to pull these off!  So, is filling out your address required for signing up to the site?  Yes.  Can you lie?  Yeah, sure, I'm not the IRS.  You can tell me that you live in the white house if it makes you feel better.

WhAt'S WiTh ThE CaPs In PiQNic?

I'm not trying to be 733t.  The first PiQNic was just a Picnic.  When I the second one was a big event and since I was organizing it I decided to call it the PiQnic, cause I'm vain like that.  But ever since PiQNic III, Nichole (Russell) Todd has been instrumental in organizing them so I made a further modification to capitalize the N.  I put the Q in PiQNic, she brings the "N".  Since then, so many people have helped out that if I were to keep doing the letter-for-reward thing the title would be PiRQNiVAJMc, and that's a bitch to pronounce.

You posted a list of Lost Contacts...

Yeah, I know, that was kind of a goof up on my part - I'd been working on this site for six hours straight, sent out the emails and ten of them bounced back undeliverable.  I quickly threw together the list and posted it without really examining it - for example, I've been chatting with John Napier for the past couple weeks, so I know where to find him - and just about everyone else on the list can be found through MySpace.  Still, my official policy so far is that if they haven't signed up on the site, they haven't been contacted.