Here I was trying to build excitement for this all morning and BLAMO -- HN steals my thunder. ;-)

Will the book be ready for the conference?

It'll be ready, but in print is another story unfortunately.

So no signed copies :(

Well, no signed physical copies at least. Who's to say what they'll be doing with their GPG keys?

You can get quite a Lisp fix that week by going to the International Lisp Conference from the 19th to the 21st and the Clojure conference on the 22nd and 23rd. Book your Reno -> RDU flights today!

In addition, the Strange Loop conference from Oct 14-15 (http://strangeloop2010.com) is an unofficial 1st Clojure.

I'm interested in doing a talk/show on my clojure refactoring mode (for emacs). Is the speaker list already finalized?

It is not. See the following link for more information: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/6bb...

This sounds cool--is it available for use now?

I do hope there will be some Justin.tv feeds for those of us stuck @home? Man, I wish I had an anybot now so I can ship it to these conferences and attend it from my laptop.

That's the best anybot use case I've seen. Conference attendee bot. GENIUS!

Agreed. It'd be awesome if conferences started selling anybot tickets.

You know, now that I think about it, this reminds me of Arrested Development when George Sr. rents a guy with a video cam on his head and a com to make him go places and do stuff.

I think it'd be hard to have your own anybot that you ship out (setting up wifi and all). However, if conference organizers provided it as an alternative ticket, and if wifi held up, I think it could really revolutionize things.

Perhaps Confreaks could be convinced to cover it: http://confreaks.com

Confreaks is easily convinced by paying them lots of money. :)

This is very exciting. I am hoping to attend (Hopefully the pricing fits within my reach).

Maybe we can have a HN Users meet in Durham? They have already listed some HN'ers like stuarthalloway, fogus, technomancy, lukev, liebke - Perhaps a "Ask HN" is in order when they finally announce details?

Woohoo! But wait, being a startup guy in a third-world country doesn't help. Back to programming...

It's too bad it's so much to attend $200 sounds unreasonable to me.