Warpstock Committee Is Accepting Bids for Warpstock 2002

October 05, 2001 by Luc Van Bogaert

Warpstock Committee Is Accepting Bids for Warpstock 2002

With the recent announcement of the location of Warpstock 2001 (Toronto, Canada), the Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc. is currently soliciting bids for the following conference, Warpstock 2002, which will be held sometime around October, 2002.

By accepting bids so early (14 months in advance), the Warpstock Committee is hoping to announce the location and date of Warpstock 2002 during the Warpstock 2001 conference. It is expected that such early announcements will become the norm for all future Warpstock conferences and will have a number of benefits.

The location of each Warpstock conference is chosen by the Warpstock Committee. The selection is made from bids that are submitted by interested parties who want to host the next conference.

Groups wishing to host Warpstock 2002 should indiciate their intent to bid by sending an email to bids@warpstock.org by June 1, 2001. The email should include the location (i.e. which city), the names of the individuals involved (they would then become the Event Team), and any other information available at that time (e.g. possible locations for the conference).

After submitting the bid intent, the group should work on submitting a completed bid form by August 15, 2001. The bid form, and all other relevant information, can be found at:

http://www.warpstock.org/2002/bid_form.html


In RTF, PDF, and WordPro formats. Any questions should also be directed to bids@warpstock.org.

Attendees and conference planners will have a full year to prepare for the next conference. For planners, this time frame could even allow them to select otherwise unavailable sites that need significant advanced reservation. But most importantly, announcing at each
conference the dates and location of the following conference will demonstrate that the annual Warpstock Conferences are a well-planned, ongoing tradition, and not haphazard events that get cobbled together six months in advance.

The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit 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 2001 web site:

http://www.warpstock.org

or its mirror site:

http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock

Board of Directors
Warpstock, Inc.

http://www.warpstock.org