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I was able to purchase my tickets finally, and I also bought my plane tickets. Now the only missing piece of the puzzle is the hotel room reservations. When I last contacted the hotel, they were not ready to reserve rooms for the event. They took my email address and promised to contact me when they were.

Nice good luck let me know if you go, and hopefully we can grab a beer if I'm there. I was in a hotel a mile away or so, seems like at least for the days during the conference probably worth it to be closer to the hotel.