I'll update the conference page to include all of the below:

1. The block rate for the conference hotel is $129/night for a single or
double.  That rate is available Sunday through Thursday nights, and the
link/info for the hotel rate will be included in the registration form.

2. The registration will be under $200; hopefully substantially under.
We're busy finalizing this.

3. TriMet's MAX Red Line runs between the airport and a few blocks from the
hotel every 15 minutes from 5 am to 11:30 pm. There is also a downtown
shuttle that can be booked for extended hours right to the Hilton for $14
one-way or $24 round trip
http://www.bluestarbus.com/downtown-shuttle-schedule.php.

4. Registration is planned to open Dec. 8th (next Monday).  I will include
a time in what I post to the conference page.

5. Beyond the vote link posted previously, the program committee is
scheduled to meet later this week to finalize the schedule and presenter
list. The local committee will work with them to get a final presentation
list up before the 8th.

We are capping the registration numbers higher than in previous years
(450-500), and our hope is not to sell out (or rather, to sell out exactly
and turn not a soul away).

Thanks for prodding us to get this information out!

- Tom


On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Also not on the committee, but I can help with #3: getting to the
> conference is very easy by train: there's a train from the airport to
> downtown Portland, which stops less than 1/4 mile from the hotel, and costs
> $2.50 each way.
>
> -Esme
>
> > On Dec 1, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not on the committee, but I can help with #5:
> > http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/33
> >
> > (Also here are the keynotes:
> http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/31)
> >
> > - Coral
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Emily Lynema <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I suspect that it is time to start planning travel requests for Code4Lib
> >> 2015. Can the organizing committee provide some more info than what is
> >> currently available at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/ such as:
> >>
> >> 1. Hotel price
> >> 2. Estimated registration (I know you don't know for sure yet!)
> >> 3. Travel info (are there buses, shuttles, public transit, etc.)
> >> 4. Date registration will open (again, just an idea of the timeline will
> >> help us plan for travel requests)
> >> 5. An easy link to the proposals that were submitted / results of
> voting.
> >>
> >> This would be immensely helpful.
> >>
> >> Thanks!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Emily Lynema
> >> Associate Department Head
> >> Information Technology, NCSU Libraries
> >> 919-513-8031
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
>