Well, ScienceOnline'09 is next week!!!
Most of the stuff on the organizational side is now set and we only have a few last-minute things to take care of. But this is a free, community conference - try to get in touch with each other and organize additional meetups, or to help each other in various ways as much as you can.
The most important thing for the guests out of town is to have reliable transportation. Sigma Xi and Radisson are in the middle of the Triangle and public transportation is, well, not so great. So we would like the locals to offer to give rides as much as possible.
First - Radisson provides free shuttle between the hotel and the airport and between the hotel and Sigma Xi. Whe you land at RDU, give the hotel a call and the van will be there in 5 minutes. If you can co-ordinate this with others arriving at the same time, this will make the whole thing more efficient. Then reserve the shuttle back to the airport at the reception desk.
Try to organize large-ish groups to use the shuttle to go to Sigma Xi (and back) so they don't drive people around one at a time.
I want to ask the motorized locals to visit various pages on the wiki to see who is asking for rides where and when and to offer to give rides.
Rides are especially needed for the Thursday night Early Bird dinner, the Friday morning Science Of Coffee event and for Friday afternoon Lab Tours. All of those events are pretty far away from the hotel and Sigma Xi so I hope the locals offer to help.
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