HHC 2015: Nashville!

[Joe Horn]

After much wrangling with many hotels, it was finally decided to have HHC 2015 at the same hotel that hosted HHC 2012, the Holiday Inn Express in Brentwood, Tennessee, which is near Nashville. Hotel prices have gone through the roof lately, but the Holiday Inn Express was able to give the best deal by far.

The official HHC 2015 website just went "live". Check it out for details, or to register your desire to attend: http://hhuc.us/2015

[Namir]

Thanks Joe for launching the web pages for HHC2015. I was both surprised and delighted to see my name in the initial list of attendees! I have my airline ticket already and some free hotel nights reserved (through an online hotel-reservation service).

Namir

[Joe Horn]

(06-10-2015 02:22 AM)Namir Wrote:  I was both surprised and delighted to see my name in the initial list of attendees!

I must confess that I felt bad pre-populating the list with a few of The Usual Suspects without even asking you first, but I would feel even worse starting with a totally empty list. Glad to hear that you'll actually be there!

[Namir]

(06-10-2015 05:07 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(06-10-2015 02:22 AM)Namir Wrote:  I was both surprised and delighted to see my name in the initial list of attendees!

I must confess that I felt bad pre-populating the list with a few of The Usual Suspects without even asking you first, but I would feel even worse starting with a totally empty list. Glad to hear that you'll actually be there!

Would not miss it for the world! I am planning to give a talk too ("Genetic Algorithms Optimization on the HP Prime"). You are welcome to add that title.

Namir

[Joe Horn]

(06-10-2015 01:34 PM)Namir Wrote:  Would not miss it for the world! I am planning to give a talk too ("Genetic Algorithms Optimization on the HP Prime"). You are welcome to add that title.

Done.

[Jake Schwartz]

Hi Joe,

I am now registered. Can you also post a notice on comp.sys.hp48?

Thanks,
Jake

[Dave Britten]

I'm on the maybe list. It's definitely close enough for a road trip, and my wife and I have never been to Nashville, but we've got a wedding to go to in Saginaw on Friday. Gotta see what that schedule is going to be first.

[Guenter Schink]

(06-10-2015 04:42 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  Hi Joe,

Can you also post a notice on comp.sys.hp48?

And on the list?!

We will be there again.

Günter

[Sylvain Cote]

HHC 2015 Registered: Check
Airplane Ticket Reserved & Paid: Check
Hotel Room Reserved & Paid: Check
Hotel Shuttle (Hotel-Airport): do not known how this work yet

Yep! I will be there for the first time 8-)

Landing Friday, Sept 25 at 11h15
Takeoff Monday, Sept 28 at 17h15

Sylvain

[Namir]

(06-11-2015 06:16 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  HHC 2015 Registered: Check
Airplane Ticket Reserved & Paid: Check
Hotel Room Reserved & Paid: Check
Hotel Shuttle (Hotel-Airport): do not known how this work yet

Yep! I will be there for the first time 8-)

Landing Friday, Sept 25 at 11h15
Takeoff Monday, Sept 28 at 17h15

Sylvain

There is a courtesy phone at the airport. You call the HIE hotel and tell them that you need to be picked up and which terminal you are in. You have to then walk to a location for hotel shuttle pick up. Very easy!

Looking forward to meeting you!

Nmair

[Gene]

(06-11-2015 06:16 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  HHC 2015 Registered: Check
Yep! I will be there for the first time 8-)
Sylvain

Gene: Excellent! I greatly look forward to meeting you and hope you enjoy your visit to my home town!

See you soon.

[Joe Horn]

Holy smokes, 25 signups in 16 days! At this rate we'll have ... let's see ... (pulls out HP 50g) left-shift-hold+9, 6.092015 9.262015 DDAYS 16 / 25 * --> 170 attendees! But the hotel meeting room only fits 40 comfortably. I hope we won't have to replace the conference registration page with a "Sorry, No Vacancies" sign. We've never done that in the past.

If we have too many people, we could have concurrent sessions: presentations in the meeting room, and at the same time programming jam sessions in the hotel pool.

[Olivier (WA)]

+1 = 26

[jjohnson873]

Does anyone know if Tim Wessman (and family) will be attending this year's HHC2015? I didn't see Tim's name as registered yet. Just curious. Always good to see Tim and the rest of the Wessman family present.

On another note, it's good to see such a healthy response to the Nashville, TN HHC2015 location. Congratulations to the HHC committee!

[Tim Wessman]

(06-26-2015 12:12 PM)jjohnson873 Wrote:  Does anyone know if Tim Wessman (and family)

I don't know yet. Due the company split activities, essentially all travel and non-critical expenses (aka - this thing won't ship without it!) have been stopped. They want everyone completely focused on delivering good numbers when the split happens and have us completely focused on that.

With 3 young kids and one income.... things are a bit tight. I'll have to figure out how/if I can personally afford to pay or get there this year. :-(

If I can make it work, it will just be me by myself this year.

[Brad Barton]

+1 here. Woohoo! Driving distance for me. Glad it's close enough to attend this year.

[Gene]

Brad, where will you be driving from ?

Welcome in advance to Nashville!

[Brad Barton]

I'll be coming down from west central Indiana. It's a little over 4 hours from Nashville.

[Namir]

(07-08-2015 03:55 AM)Brad Barton Wrote:  I'll be coming down from west central Indiana. It's a little over 4 hours from Nashville.

That's not a long drive!

It's about 9 to 9.5 hours from Richmond, VA. I will be flying from Phoenix where I visit my son, sister, and some friends.

Namir

[Brad Barton]

(07-08-2015 03:54 PM)Namir Wrote:  That's not a long drive!


Namir

It's practically in my backyard! Many of the other conferences have been on the coasts. Glad to have one nearby.