2010 Conference Buzz
Announcements From the Organizers
- Conference tag: c4l10
- Internet in guest rooms at the Renaissance Asheville is FREE. Use attwifi_meeting; we have more bandwidth and (thanks to mbklein) better IRC access. However, our bandwidth is still limited. Here's Monday's usage
- Hospitality Suite: 1115 (“open when a warm body is there”) - has a portable projector! Looks like this
- Hotel Map - aside from the first floor we're using Swannanoa Room (2nd Floor)
- Jobs4Lib - bulletin board near the registration area (see code4libcon discussion)
- Release form 'cause we're videotaping
- How to get onto IRC (Quick answer: http://webchat.freenode.net/ Nickname: pick a name, Channels: #code4lib )
- Projector resolution is 1024x768
- Fill out our [|evaluation survey] to give speakers and planners your feedback.
- Put your ideas for 2011 here!
Useful Links
- alias to this page: http://tinyurl.com/ashevillebuzz
- Conference Program (also as a calendar feed thanks to Simon Spero)
- 2010 Breakout Sessions - sign up on the wiki, or also the flipchart
- Lightning Talks - sign up on the wiki
- Annotated Google Map
- weather
- 2010 Lightning Talks Signup
Does Anybody Want To...?
See also C4L2010_social_activities -- should we move summaries here?
Attending the conference and tweeting about it? Add yourself to 2010 Twitter List to end up in the @code4lib twitter list for convenient following.
An archive of tweets based on the #c4l10 hashtag can be viewed at Twapperkeeper and statistics can be had at what the hashtag. Also registered at hashtag.org. Please add the tag to any similar services.
Eats
- Breakfast Tuesday - Thursday is continental
- Lunch is provided on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lunch options on other days:
- Add some ideas here or see the Google Map or the print program
Lunch Groups
Lunch is provided Tuesday and Wednesday
Drupal interest group meets Tuesday at lunch - meet in lobby and we'll find a spot (in one of the Bof rooms) for lunch Look for me, Cary Gordon. I am easy to find.
Dinner Plans
See C4L2010 social activities for some planned dinners (feel free to summarize here!)
- Sunday
- Monday - see Newcomer Dinner for one option
- Tuesday
- Wednesday - see 12 Bones BBQ and Vegetarian dinner at Ophelia's World Cafe and Bar
Things To Do
- "36 Hours in Asheville, NC" piece in the New York Times TRAVEL section from 2007.
See also C4L2010_social_activities -- should we move summaries here?
Transportation
- Airport bus: Bus to the airport from downtown (doesn't run on Sundays)
- See also Asheville_Airport_to_Hotel_Van_Manifest and C4L2010rideshare
WiFi
SSH Tunneling to get around blocked ports
Ports blocked? Try this:
- On your laptop, execute:
ssh -f -N -L 9999:chat.freenode.net:6667 machine.I.have.rights.on
...where chat.freenode.net:6667 is the machine/port you want to eventually get to, machine.i.have.rights.on is...well, that, and 9999 is an empty port on your local machine.
You'll be prompted for a password if you need one, after which you can put it in the background.
Then you can set up your chat software to talk to localhost:9999 and you're set.
One can also use ssh to set up a SOCKS proxy:
ssh -D [local_socks_port] [machine_I_have_rights_on]
Want more details? See this article.
Ground Crew Contacts
Please feel free to contact us about anything, any time, between now and the end of the conference.
- Jill Ellern 828-399-1286