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.

Tried to make the deadline for the early-bird discounts for Warpstock registration but just couldn't? There's still time to snag a significant break on the normal full conference registration rate of $149 and the daily rate of $99.

Register before September 1, and pay only $119 for a full conference registration or just $69 for a one-day pass to all sessions, including lunch!

Hurry, though, because our early-bird discount was so well received, we want to make sure there are rooms in the hotel and adequate meeting space for the event. The sooner we know how many attendees we'll have, the better we may plan ahead.

Warpstock encourages attendees to bring spouses, guests, and even families to the event. Note that registration fees are only required for those actually participating in sessions (and as students are always free, there is never a registration fee for them). Spouses, and guests are invited to join us for lunch on Friday and Saturday, as well, with no up-charge.

So please, come and enjoy all there is to enjoy about Warpstock: good friends and good people getting together to share and learn new things about the technology we use. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!

We managed to work out a great deal with the hotel for this year's event, at just $84 per night, for either a single King suite or a guest room with two Queen beds. That price includes complimentary hot breakfast for every day of your stay, complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, complimentary airport shuttle or parking (for those driving to the event), outdoor heated pool and hot tub, and of course, lots of Florida sunshine!

Top that off with catered lunch Friday and Saturday during the event, and 2016 shapes up to be an excellent bargain.

The Warpstock speaker committee invites you make a presentation at this year's conference. Presentations are currently scheduled at 45 minutes in length, but this is negotiable. Presenters may use Skype to make presentations, so.if you cannot be with us in person, please consider making a virtual presentation.

Individuals considering making a presentation should submit a letter of their intent by e-mail to: presenters [AT] warpstock [DOT] org.