Conference Odds and Ends

With only a couple of days until the conference begins, there are a bunch of quick tidbits to let you know about.

Lanyards
To help keep the costs of bringing Northern Voice to you at the extremely low price we do, we are trying to keep our out of pocket costs as low as possible. This year, we will have a limited supply of Lanyards available for name badges. We are encouraging the attendees to search the back of their desks and bring in an extra Lanyard or two or five - we've all accumulated tons from previous conferences we've attended, so lets lessen our environmental impact by reusing.

Don't worry if you don't have one. We will be bringing in colourful yarn for people to use to create their own Lanyard if we run out and you don't bring one in.

Child Care

As with previous years, we will be providing a room for kids and their parents and caregivers to use, at both MooseCamp (Friday) and Northern Voice (Saturday). The same rules as other years apply: we can't provide child-minding or babysitting services - we just provide the room and leave it to you to entertain your kids (and maybe someone else's).

We suggest you bring appropriate toys/books/other entertainment. There's a wiki page for those interested in bringing their kids to figure out who's coming, what toys to bring, etc. Kids are free as long as you're not bringing a whole horde.

Hash Tags

Don't forget to tag all of your blogs, pictures, tweets, and video of and about Northern Voice with #northernvoice09 - the official hash tag for the conference. We'd love to use #nv09, but there are other events that are currently using it, so for the sake of originality - but unfortunately not brevity - we will be using and encouraging everyone else to use #northernvoice09.