If you haven't yet booked your hotel room for Warpstock 2018, now is the time.

The hotel room block cutoff date is August 13, after which any unreserved rooms from our current reserved block will be released for general sale by the Country Inn & Suites By Radisson Calgary Airport. Reservations made after the cutoff will be on an as-available basis.

Why wait? Register for Warpstock 2018 today, and use this direct booking link or by telephone: 800-830-5222 or 403-250-1800 to book your room. When calling or using the hotel's main website, use the booking code "0913WARPST" to get the conference rate (the direct link should apply this automatically). (King or Two Double: $119 CAD/night; Suite: $134 CAD/night).

Here are some interesting facts about the Warpstock 2018 event logo (read more, below).

The Warpstock 2018 gear has arrived in our Cafepress store.

We've got shirts in a variety of styles and a broad range of sizes, BBQ aprons, mousepads (yes, even optical mice need mousepads!), pins, coasters, glasses, cups, coffee mugs, sports bottles, bumper stickers, underwear (don't ask!), even baby and doggie attire, and a whole lot more. Please visit the shop to see the whole collection! While the bulk of the purchase price goes to the supplier, 10% of the price goes to Warpstock to help us with future events and ongoing expenses.

Warpstock, the annual conference for ArcaOS, OS/2, and eComStation users, administrators, and developers, is now open for registration!

Warpstock 2018 will be held at the Country Inn & Suites By Radisson Calgary Airport, located at 2481 39th Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 8V8.

This year's event will begin Friday, September 14 and continue through Sunday, September 16.

We are working hard to make this another event chock-full of enjoyable and informative sessions, featuring an all-star cast! Join us, as a presenter or as an attendee. ArcaOS continues to wow new, continuing, and returning OS/2 users, and there is a lot to explore and learn about this powerful, secure, alternative operating system - today's answer to intrusive, spying, commercial and open source systems, which is still amazingly versatile and remarkable agile on today's hardware! Find out more about this year's Warpstock!

Register before May 1 and receive a $30 Early Bird discount on a full or daily conference registration! Spouses/family members/guests/office mates attending sessions also receive great discounts, and non-attending guests are FREE. Students with valid student ID are welcome to attend sessions at no charge, with full benefits!

Remember to book your hotel and travel early (we have negotiated great rates for this year's event - King or Two Double: $119 CAD/night; Suite: $134 CAD/night). Come early and stay a few days to see the sights and keep the conversation going!

The hotel booking deadline for this year's event has been extended to August 10. If you have not yet booked your stay, you still have some time to see to these important arrangements.

Also, if additional days are desired, either before or after the event (so-called "shoulder" or "side" days), you must phone the hotel (800-491-4656 or 416-240-7511) to make your reservations under the Warpstock group, as the online booking system is limited to the actual days of the event. Failure to phone for your reservations will result in a higher hotel rate than the negotiated group rate.

The first two fact sheets have been added for this year's event. If you haven't stopped over at the Fact Sheet index page, you might want to take a look.

The new sheets are:

• Fact Sheet 1 - Attending Warpstock 2017 (travelling to Canada from abroad)
• Fact Sheet 2 - Attending Warpstock 2017 (traveling from the US to Canada)

While early registration discounts have now closed, great deals may still be had for additional family members or office mates attending Warpstock 2017 with a regular attendee. Take 20% each of these additional registrations, right up to the event! Register now for Warpstock 2017.

Warpstock is the annual conference for OS/2, ArcaOS, and eComStation users, administrators, and developers. Warpstock 2017 will be held at the Holiday Inn Toronto Airport East, located at 600 Dixon Road Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9W 1J1., Friday, September 8 through Sunday, September 10, 2017.

The Warpstock Board of Directors is working hard to make this another enjoyable and informative event. We invite you to participate, either as a presenter or as an attendee. 2017 is a year of new beginnings for the OS/2 platform with the launch of an entirely new distribution, and there will be much to discuss at this year's Warpstock!

Register before May 31 and receive a 20% early bird discount on a full or daily conference registration! Also remember to book your hotel and travel early (we have negotiated great rates for this year's event - only $116 CAD/night single or double). Come early and stay a few days to see the sights and keep the conversation going!

Announcing Warpstock Europe 2017

This year the OS/2 VOICE foundation will be hosting the European conference about OS/2: Warpstock Europe 2017 in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in the central library on Saturday the 20 and Sunday 21st of May 2017. Please see www.warpstock.eu for details.

The week has finally landed in the calendar (or something like that).

Safe travels to all of our attendees and presenters, some of whom are coming from long distances to be with us this year. Watch the Warpstock 2016 page for news about streaming links and event updates.

If you really wanted to make it to the conference this year but were not able to do so, please drop us a note (or comment here) to let us know what we could have done to have helped make it possible or what we should consider doing in the future to get more people to the event.

On behalf of the Warpstock Board of Directors, I bid you a warm welcome to this year's Warpstock conference, and look forward to seeing everyone later this week.