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Thanks to everyone who made OR07 a great success! We had 357 conference attendees, and the conference use groups, presentations and poster sessions were a great success. We are looking forward to continuing the discussions started in San Antonio next year in Southampton, UK.

A conference attendee has created a del.icio.us page for tagging relevant content; it is accessible at http://del.icio.us/tag/or2007.

In order to enhance the physical and non-physical attendance during Open Repositories 2007, an IRC backchannel has been established. Connect to the irc.freenode.net server and choose the #openrepositories channel. For more information or links to IRC clients, see www.irc.net/links.html.

The conference program is now available as a PDF download for those of you needing reading material for a long flight :-). Please note that last minute changes will be available on the web version of the program.

Single-day registrations are now available on the conference registration site. Of course, these options will also be available during the conference for on-site registrations.

Note for those attendees planning to register on-site: the registration/information desk will be opening early, on Monday, Jan 22 from 7pm to 9pm.

To accommodate busy holiday schedules and travel, the steering committee has decided to extend the early conference registration rate through January 19th. Rooms at the conference hotel are also still available, but please register as soon as possible as the conference block may be withdrawn soon.

The credit card processing system used by the conference registration system will be offline tonight for maintenence from 10pm to 1am CST. Please register early today to ensure that the payment goes through with no difficulties.

Congratulations to Paul Kobulnicky from Youngstown State University -- he is the first winner in the free hotel giveaway promotion! Paul was randomly chosen from among the first 100 registrants for the conference hotel (the Marroitt Rivercenter) for a complimentary stay during the conference. The promotion is still in progress until December 22nd, so register early, and you'll automatically be entered for a chance to win.

The programming for Open Repositories 2007 is now complete. You can browse the completed plenary sessions, user group sessions, and the complete program-at-a-glance.

The Fedora project has joined OR07 as our newest sponsor.

Open Repositories 2007 now includes a poster session!

The list of presentations for the general sessions has been finalized and is available online.

Please note that the deadlines for the Fedora and EPrints user group meetings have been moved to November 15.

Leslie Carr of EPrints announced today that EPrints v3.0 will be formally launched at the OR07 conference!

The deadline for the general Call for Presentations has been extended by a week.

The Call for Presentations has been extended to include the user groups for DSpace and Fedora that will be meeting immediately preceeding the general conference.

Conference registration is now open, and credit card payments are being accepted. Advance registration is available until December 22, 2006.

OR07 is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the general conference. The opening keynote for the general conference will be given by James L. Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia. The closing keynote will be given by Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing at Microsoft. For more information, see the Keynote Speakers page.

OR07 is offering a special promotion to encourage reservations in the reserved block of conference hotel rooms. After every 100 people make a reservation in the San Antonio Mariott Rivercenter, one name will be randomly drawn to have lodging expenses covered by the conference organizers! For more information, see the hotel info page.

A one-page flyer is available for promoting Open Repositories 2007. Please help us advertise the conference by printing and posting this flyer at your workplace.

Hotel registration is now open. Reservation by attendees must be received on or before Friday, December 22, 2006, the "Cut-Off Date", to receive the special hotel rate. For more information, see the hotel info page.