A letter from Kevin Standlee:

Chicon 7, for hotel-related reasons, did not record official versions of their Opening and Closing Ceremonies; however, Lisa Hayes and I were given access to shoot video of both ceremonies in our own personal capacities. (Technically, this was through Lisa’s video-production company, Tsuki Systems LLC, that being the company through which we contracted with the Hyatt for permission to shoot.) It’s taken me a while to get around to putting the pieces together, and it doesn’t have everything I wanted (in particular, a good part of LSC3’s portion of the ceremony got lost when someone jiggled Lisa and the fixed camera, causing it to turn off without her noticing), but here you go:

Opening: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKFOBcK2II&feature=share&list=UUHLgFGrpXNTm1-qnApaCv8A>

Closing: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2HJGPyNIAM&feature=share&list=ULN2HJGPyNIAM>

I have put a creative-commons attribution license on these videos. Feel free to distribute this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.

I was rather surprised that 29 people viewed the video of the Opening Ceremony by this morning when I did only uploaded it last night.

Kevin