The Renaissance Austin Hotel is a AAA 4 Diamond award facility, with 476 rooms, that is located near the IBM Austin campus. The site features 95 acres of more than 50 specialty shops, restaurants and movie theaters. We have arranged a special show room rate of $129 per night Single/Double that will be available for up to 3 days before and 3 days after Warpstock (based on availability). We will have more information about the Austin area on the http://www.warpstock.org web site, or our mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org , when it is available.

You can make hotel reservations by calling 1-800-HOTELS-1, 1-800-228-9290, 512-343-2620 or by fax to 512-343-6364. Please be sure to mention "Warpstock 2002" to get the show room rate. The hotel is expecting to sell out that weekend, so please make your reservations as early as possible.

Details on the cost and payment for registration for Warpstock 2002 are still being worked on and will be announced shortly.

This year Warpstock will be in the home of OS/2, Austin Texas, which gives us great access to IBM's OS/2 developers. So if your work involves supporting or using OS/2, this year is a must attend event. Some of the presentations that have already been confirmed are:

• Scott Garfinkle, IBM: OS/2 Hang & Trap analysis
• Mike Kaply, IBM: OS/2 Web Browser
• Oliver Mark, IBM: OS/2 Updates
• Rainer Feuerstein: Bootable CD's
• Achim Hasenmueller, Innotek: VirtualPC
• Achim Hasenmueller, Innotek: Universal Audio Driver
• Richard Spurlock, Starfire: Starfire Titan
• Andrew Bloo, Scitech Software: SciTech Display Doctor and SNAP
• Randall Flint, Sundial Systems: Sundial Product Suite
• Bob St. John / Kim Cheung, Serenity Systems: eCS updates
• Eric Faulhaber, Golden Code: GoldenCode Trace Suite.
• Darrell Spice Jr., Spiceware: On emulators for OS/2
• Sam Emrick, IBM: Speed and Performance with OS/2, covering the
  following:

  Convenience Pak2
  App design for performance (really most key part!)
  SMP ?!

• Ron Capelli, IBM: Java & OS/2

If you are interested in giving a presentation at Warpstock 2002, please contact our speaker coordinator, Oliver Mark (o.mark@de.ibm.com) with a synopsis of your presentation and any requirements.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web site : http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site http://warpstock.os2voice.org websiteehttp://warpstock.os2voice.org.