<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">Registration is now open and hotel rooms may be booked for CalConnect XXXVIII Irvine, California, February 13-17, 2017, hosted by the </b><a href="http://www.uci.edu/" class="">University of California, Irvine</a>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The <i class="">CalConnect XXXVIII web page </i>is located at <a href="https://www.calconnect.org/events/calconnect-xxxviii-february-13-17-2017" class="">https://www.calconnect.org/events/calconnect-xxxviii-february-13-17-2017</a> and contains hotel information and booking, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, international travel information, etc. </div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The <b class=""> meeting venue</b> is the UCI Conference Center, located in the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/UCI+Student+Center+&+Event+Services/@33.6489919,-117.8421662,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x54a63a5775b1ff92!8m2!3d33.6489919!4d-117.8421662" class="">Student Center</a> building. It is within a few miles of the conference hotel. The <b class="">Conference Hotel</b> is the <a href="http://www.hotelirvine.com/" class="">Hotel Irvine</a> which is also within a few miles of the nearest airport, Johne Wayne Airport (SNA). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You may book the Conference Hotel via a web page link noted on the event web page, or via a telephone call or e-mail. We are offered a special UCI rate of $153 for most nights (Friday and Saturday are $119), which includes breakfast. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Interoperability Test Event and Developers Forum will take place on our usual schedule beginning Monday morning and going through Wednesday noon. The Conference will begin Wednesday after lunch and run through Friday afternoon. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We will be posting schedules and agenda as soon as possible on the event web page, and expect that they may evolve over time. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Registration information</b> is at <a href="https://www.calconnect.org/events/event-registration-payment" class="">https://www.calconnect.org/events/event-registration-payment</a> and is linked from the event web page. Note that this is the first event with the new event fees announced last summer and at the Dresden event. As noted at the time, the conference fees had remained essentially unchanged since 2005 while the costs associated with the events continued to rise until the fees no long covered the cost of the event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">On remote access:</b> We may be able to allow remote access for the Test Event via Slack and etherpads. We will not attempt to offer remote attendance at the conference. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As always, please let me know if you have any questions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you in Irvine, California!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dave Thewlis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">--</div><div class=""><b class="">Dave Thewlis, Executive Director</b></div><div class=""><b class="">CalConnect - The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium</b></div><div class="">+1 707 840 9391 voice | +1 707 498 2238 mobile | +1 415 946 3454 fax</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.calconnect.org/" class="">http://www.calconnect.org</a> | <a href="mailto:Dave.Thewlis@calconnect.org" class="">Dave.Thewlis@calconnect.org</a></div></div>
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