Bill Roper (filker)
Bill Roper (born May 23, 1956) is a filker and member of science fiction fandom. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the Pegasus Award three times, and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2000. He has chaired the Windycon science fiction convention twice as well as Whatcon and worked on Chicon IV, Chicon V, and Chicon 2000, the last as the head of the Exhibits Division.
Bill Roper | |
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 Bill Roper at Capricon 2005 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | May 23, 1956 |
| Genres | Filk |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Labels | Dodeka |
| Website | www.filker.com |
Roper is a longtime board member of ISFiC and since 2004, he has been the business manager for ISFiC Press.
Roper (far left) playing in a filk circle.
Pegasus Awards
- Best Schtick 1987: Unreality Warp/Kinda Mediocre, Actually (with Clif Flynt)
- Best Filk Song 1988: "Wind from Rainbow's End"
- Best Original Humorous Song 2003: "My Husband the Filker" (with Gretchen Roper)
gollark: Arguably you don't need it that much if you can run your own server and there are TLS links between things anyway.
gollark: I mean, *bad* E2E would be easy as I'd want clients to have a set of keys for signing messages and such anyway, but no.
gollark: Possibly E2E but this would complicate much of the design if it was available I think.
gollark: And modernised/simpler other stuff.
gollark: *I* would do IRC with global email-like identity and server stored history.
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