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 - flipchart near the registration area (see code4libcon discussion)
• Release form 'cause we're videotaping

Useful Links

• alias to this page: http://tinyurl.com/ashevillebuzz
• Conference Program (also as a calendar feed thanks to Simon Spero)
• Breakout Sessions
• Lightning Talks

(is this where to sign up?  The page says it's only to list talks after they've been given, but the conference announcement said to sign up on the Wiki - where?)

• Annotated Google Map
• weather
• 2010 Lightning Talks Singup

Does Anybody Want To...?

See also C4L2010_social_activities -- should we move summaries here?

Twitter

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

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

• Bike rentals

WiFi

• Listing of free wifi spots in Asheville

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.

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

• You can call Jodi online via Skype, or type your number to call me at Google Voice.