Compiling The Summer 2008 Guest List

Uh, wow, jeez, ROFLCon has to formally apologize for pulling a blog party foul with the sudden dead space in posting. Most of the ROFLCon staff has been laid low as we’ve been moving around the country post-school year. (I’ve been busy doing that whole graduation thing and flying over to sunny San Fran for the summer). In any case, we should all be settling in over the next week or so and blogging should be returning to regularity (if you’ve e-mailed about helping this summer — we hear you and we’ll be getting in touch soon)

Anyways, we’ll be putting the call out to all of the guests who came to the original ROFLCon, but we want to throw a post up to let you all suggest people that might not have appeared at the April event (either because we missed them or because they’ve only gotten famous recently) that you would want to see this summer. Comment here and we’ll get the wheels a’turning on searching them out.

Tay Zonday, if you’re reading this, let’s talk.

(picture courtesy Doc Searls, CC BY SA)

Bad@$$

After a long night of drinking Brawndo and rocking out the ROFLTeam, with awesome help from the ROFLutionaries volunteer corps and a special guest appearance by the Mozilla Firefox himself (I’m not even kidding, I love my life right now,) have things almost wrapped up for the conference. We completed packing 70 guest boxes, 700 attendee boxes and the printing of 800 super sweet official registration badges (heck, we even sorted them into categories.) Minor issues like needing 10 extra large boxes, copy machine jams, or issues with crappy web services couldn’t stop our march to victory, and at this point everyone is ready to rest up in the calm before the storm. We can’t wait to see everyone stopping by early at the Asgard tomorrow night, and of course at the conference on Friday. Have a safe trip everyone!

…Oh, and the best part? We should have enough Brawndo on hand for everyone attending.

The (Mostly) Final Schedule POSTED

Man kids, sorry about the delay in posting, things have just been nuts over here at the ROFLCON HQ with the recent move to MIT.

But, more importantly, check out our new and improved conference schedule, detailing what exactly you’ll be getting yourself into during this fateful weekend in Cambridge not two months from now.

As is mentioned on that page, this will mostly be it from here on in and is essentially the contours of what’ll be going down — time-frame wise. We’re giving the guests a chance to take a look over it, so they’ll be some smaller shifts as we work out the details on scheduling or whatnot.

It’s Official — ROFLCon Moves To MIT

As promised, Saturday ended up being one of the biggest meetings ever for the ROFLCon Team. After going back and forth for quite some time, we’ve finally decided to our entire operation over to MIT for April 25-6th. We wanted to make it possible for as many people to come and partake in the ROFL, and for that reason, the capped attendance of the event is now looking like about ~500+. (as opposed to the more cramped 250 we were looking at at Harvard). This, if our calculations are right, should make things extremely baller.

Thanks to the help of the folks at MIT Free Culture, we’ve also gotten a fix on the actual spaces that this thing will be going down in. I’m tying up a final draft of the logistics of the schedule (which will have to pend through our guests before being finally confirmed) tonight, and will post it tomorrow.

SO, for people who know the MIT campus: with some finagling, the general space of the conference will be Friday starting in the second floor of the Sala de Puerto Rico eventually shifting over to 34-101 (and surrounding spaces), with Saturday (the 26th) based primarily in 26-100 and surrounding spaces.

Comments, recommendations welcome!