[Announce] Warpstock 2005 Hotel reservations now open

[Andy Willis]

The ninth edition of the annual Warpstock event will be held at the 
Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel this year. The four day event will 
start October 6th with half day classes scheduled Thursday and Friday 
October 6 and 7 and the general Warpstock presentations on Saturday and 
Sunday October 8 and 9.

We have negotiated a very good room rate with the hotel - $99 for either 
a single or double room. Their regular corporate rate for these rooms 
(not the inflated rack rate) is $169 a night. The hotel has assigned us 
some additional rooms for 2 days prior to and 2 days after the event, 
but can't guarantee the room rate for those days once the limited 
numbers are used up. If you encounter a problem with making reservations 
please contact us at hotel2005 at warpstock.org 
<mailto:hotel2005 at warpstock.org> so we can attempt to remedy any 
glitches as soon as possible.

To make reservations you can call the Wyndham 800 reservation number: 
1-877-999-3223 (toll free reservation) or outside U.S./Canda 
1-972-915-7070 (International Direct Dial rates apply.) The direct 
Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel phone number is: 1-717-564-5511 and 
their fax: 1-717-564-2476. When calling the hotel to make your 
reservation, please make sure to mention you are with "Warpstock" in 
order to receive the special rate.

Online you can access information about the hotel at: 
http://www.wyndhamharrisburg.com/ You can make reservations online here. 
<http://www.wyndham.com/wbe/reservations.wnt?PRO=MDTHT&cha=WYNDHAM&grp=1006772TH&arr=10/05/2005&dep=10/09/2005> 


To get the low Warpstock rate you must enter the Group code: 1006772TH 
You MUST USE this GROUP CODE to get the negotiated rates in their online 
reservation system.

These rates are guaranteed for the assigned block of rooms only until 
September 22nd at 12:00 midnight. Please make reservations as early as 
possible to make sure you have the rooms you need.

We have learned that it is a good idea to join Wyndham by Request. 
https://www.wyndham.com/wbr/join.wnt Membership is free and includes 
various benefits such as free, in-room High Speed internet access. There 
is no advantage to Warpstock for you to do this, we are just advising 
you to do this for the free additional benefits. As of now, because of 
the outrageous expense there are no plans to provide free internet 
availablity in the exhibit area as we have done in the past.

For more on this year's event location, including lots of Hershey area 
attractions (mmm, did somebody say chocolate?), see our web site at:
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/location.html
To learn more about Warpstock visit the homepage at:
http://warpstock.org/index.html
Information about this years event can be found at:
http://warpstock.org/index_2005.html
Registration information is at:
http://warpstock.org/event_info/2005/registration.html

We also offer the Warpstock eNewsletter mailing list where you can get 
more detialed information bulletins electronically as we announce them. 
If you would like to subscribe to the Warpstock eNewsletter send the 
following message in the body of an email to [ majormajor at os2voice.org 
<mailto:majormajor at os2voice.org> ]

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Or by clicking on the following link [ 
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Have you been to Warpstock yet?

   * Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California
   * Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois
   * Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia
   * Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   * Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada
   * Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas
   * Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California
   * Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado
   * Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual 
conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from 
around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More 
information is available at the Warpstock web site: 
http://www.warpstock.org