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(photo by remisser, CC BY SA)

Some of you who attended the final session of ROFLCon may remember the trolling (thanks Zotnix!) we got in our comment thread (not unexpected — what kind of internet culture conference would we be without it?) and the IRL flame war (like, punches) that ensued.

This “real” comment thread with the Anons may interest you.

[Videos of the referenced Anon panel here]

Waitlist Announcements Go Out Today

Hey buds,

Many of you have e-mailed the ROFLCon team or mentioned that you wanted to come on our registration page. In the hopes that we could get in as many people as possible (one of the big reasons why we moved this whole operation to MIT in the first place), we’ve been actively putting people on a waitlist. We’re finally firming up our attendee numbers this weekend, and will be sending out yea or nays today. It possible we’ll be missing a few names due to some data loss, so if you don’t hear back — it’ll be safe to assume that we weren’t able to swing some spaces.

This is our first year, but us ROFLCon peeps are actively considering setting up events like this in the future, so if you’re interested in knowing what we’ll be up to next, shoot us an e-mail with “Update List” in the subject heading to roflcon AT gmail.com and we’ll subscribe you to our low-traffic e-mail update hotline.

Thanks,

Tim

The Hotel Story (aka Cambridge sux)

Many of you have been asking about hotels, and a bunch of people on the ROFLCon team been frantically trying to work out some sort of arrangement before the conference goes down, but I’ve come to the conclusion that, frankly, Cambridge really kind of sux.

Originally, we were thinking about just cutting a deal with the hotel that we’re putting guests into so that all you attendees could nail some semidecent housing at a good price. Unfortunately, it’s been kind of a perfect storm: it’s not only MIT Parents Weekend, but Harvard’s Pre-Frosh Weekend as well (so crazy parent quotient is up up up). So, the best we can do is ~$200+ a night (sadface) at the Kendall Marriot. If you are interested (bully for you), drop us a line at tim@roflcon.org.

If not, options:

1) Post that you want/are willing to house people here. Hope that the magic of crowdsourcing gets you through.

2) Couchsurfing.com: A kind of awesome project where you find people who’re willing to house you for free for good company/conversation. Membership is kind of involved though.

3) Cheap Hotels: Not too familiar with the Kendall Square area in terms of cheap hotels (post if you’ve got any ideas), but if you’re willing to commute a bit, there’s a Holiday Inn Express nearby, and a series of semicheap bed-and-breakfast type places over in Harvard Square.