October 24, 2006
DUX 2007 -- II
Note that planning for DUX 2007 is underway. Please direct your inquiries to chairs at dux2007.org.
Posted by richard.anderson at 03:17 PM
January 10, 2006
DUX 2007
Many have asked us for information about the next DUX conference.
ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA, and ACM SIGCHI have a joint sponsorship agreement in place that extends over the first three offerings of the DUX conference. According to that agreement, the first three offerings will occur every other year.
The first DUX conference was DUX 2003; the second -- DUX 2005; that makes the third: DUX 2007.
The organizations revisit this agreement regularly. But as of now, to the best of our knowledge, the same three organizations will jointly sponsor the next DUX conference, and it will be held sometime during 2007. (Location to be determined.)
Contact us if you have opinions about this and/or have interest in being a part of the development of the next DUX conference.
Posted by richard.anderson at 01:11 PM
November 03, 2005
DUX 2005 opens today!
If you are registered for DUX 2005, we look forward to seeing you soon!
Posted by richard.anderson at 12:12 AM
November 02, 2005
Final preparations underway
We are at the Fort Mason Center today, making final preparations for DUX 2005.
Bill Irwin
has arrived (that is Bill in conversation with Conference Chairs Brian Blau, left, and Richard Anderson, center).
Volunteers are here placing program CDs in sleeves within printed programs. Conference bags are being stuffed with an assortment of items. Attendee badges and badge ribbons are being prepared. Boxes of books for the bookstore are being unloaded. etc. etc.
The opening of DUX 2005 is only a day away.
Posted by richard.anderson at 04:08 PM
DUX 2005 starts tomorrow!
Yes, tomorrow is Thursday, 3 November -- the opening day of DUX 2005.
Registration Chair Jeff Jortner, pictured at left, will be at your service at the registration desk in Building C, Room C165 from 8am to ~2pm. At ~2pm, Jeff will move his operation to the lobby of the Cowell Theater, location of the evening's opening plenary session.
If you are registered for a morning or full-day tutorial, be sure to arrive at the Fort Mason Center early -- as close to 8am as possible -- so to check in, pick up all your registration materials, and get to the room of your tutorial by 9am.
If you are coming to register for a studio tour, arrive as early as possible since the studio tours are in another part of San Francisco. Studio tours run at different times between 10am and 4pm.
If you are registered for an afternoon tutorial, try to arrive as close to 12:30pm as possible, one hour before your 1:30pm tutorial starts.
Everyone else registered for the conference should arrive as much before the 5:30pm opening plenary start as possible, since the opening plenary is slated to start on time.
More complete instructions appear in an earlier blog entry, as does information about parking, driving, and public transportation, and about getting to the Fort Mason Center from the conference hotel.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the start of DUX 2005!
Posted by richard.anderson at 01:43 PM
October 30, 2005
On-site registration
As blogged some time ago, DUX 2005 is sold out. And the waiting list got so long so quickly, we needed to stop making it longer. So, no one will be able to register anew for DUX 2005 on-site.
I repeat: NO ONE will be able to register anew for DUX 2005 on-site. If you are not already registered for the conference by Thursday, 3 November, do not come.
Those who are registered for the conference will need to visit the registration desk upon arrival at Fort Mason to pick up their conference badges and assorted conference materials. If you are one of those people, plan to arrive early! Don't risk missing out on the start of a tutorial or the opening plenary or another conference session by getting caught in a crunch of last-minute arrivals.
The registration desk opens the morning of Thursday, 3 November at 8am in Building C. Morning and full-day tutorials begin at 9am. Afternoon tutorials begin at 1:30pm. (All tutorials will be held in Building C.)
The registration desk moves from Building C to the Cowell Theater lobby shortly after the start of the afternoon tutorials. The opening plenary begins at 5:30pm in the Cowell Theater.
The initial studio tours begin at 10am on Thursday. Leave plenty of time to get to the studio tours which you have signed up for from Fort Mason, as all are located in another part of San Francisco. Note that those signed up for studio tours are welcome to go directly to the appropriate studio(s) without first heading to Fort Mason, since all the materials you should need for the studio tours are downloadable from the conference website.
The registration desk opens the mornings of Friday and Saturday, 4 and 5 November at 8am in the Cowell Theater lobby. Breakfast is served in The Firehouse beginning at 8am. The initial conference session of each day begins at 9am in the Cowell Theater.
Posted by richard.anderson at 12:35 AM
Parking, driving, public transportation, ...
If you plan to drive to DUX 2005, plan to get there early. Fort Mason is an active cultural and education center with lots of concurrent events. There is quite alot of free parking, but there will often be lots of competition for it. You might have abit of a walk from where you will be able to park your car.
If you are staying at the conference hotel, we encourage you to walk or take advantage of our free shuttle service.
From other locations, consider checking to see what public transportation options are available. One of San Francisco's cable car lines ends about a block from the conference hotel. For information about bus lines with stops near the Fort Mason Center, see the Fort Mason Center website.
Driving directions from different parts of the Bay Area are also provided on the Fort Mason Center website.
Posted by richard.anderson at 12:08 AM
Getting to the Fort Mason Center from the conference hotel, and vice versa
DUX 2005 is providing complimentary 22-seater shuttle service between the Argonaut Hotel and Fort Mason. You can meet the Shuttle at the Argonaut Hotel outside and to the left of the main hotel entrance. The Shuttle departing Fort Mason will leave from outside the Cowell Theater. The shuttle will run continuously about every half hour during the following times:
- Thursday, 3 November: 7:45 am to 10 pm
- Friday, 4 November: 7:45 am to 8 pm
- Saturday, 5 November: 7:45 am to 6 pm
Interested in walking instead? The walk along San Francisco Bay between the Argonaut and Fort Mason will take you 15-20 minutes, unless you are slowed by the stunning views along the way.
Taxi service should be readily available at the hotel. However, you'll probably need to call for a taxi should you prefer one while at the Fort Mason Center. Taxi companies include Luxor (415.282.4141) and Yellow (415.626.2345).
Posted by richard.anderson at 12:01 AM
October 28, 2005
Wi-Fi, blogging, photo taking and sharing, ...
DUX 2005 has helped move the historic Fort Mason Center into the 21st century via its installation of a permanent wireless network in time for the conference. Hence, conference attendees will be provided with wireless network access in all Fort Mason Center conference venues. We ask conference attendees to refrain from taxing the network so to not jeopardize the quality of service it can provide.
Do you plan to blog your experiences during the conference? If you do, please let us know.
Note that audio or video recording is not permitted during conference sessions. However, should you take still photos during the conference (non-flash if in the Cowell Theater!), we encourage you to share the photos via flickr (use the tag "dux05").
Posted by richard.anderson at 11:54 PM
October 17, 2005
Waiting list is now closed
As blogged last week, DUX 2005 is sold out.
The waiting list is already longer than we are likely to be able to convert into registrations. So, to not give any additional people false hopes, we have decided to close down the ability to lengthen the list even more.
Thank you all for your interest in attending DUX 2005.
Posted by richard.anderson at 02:00 PM
October 13, 2005
DUX 2005 is sold out
Registration for the DUX 2005 conference is now closed.
If you had intended to register but were not able to do so before now, go to the registration page on the conference website and add your name to the waiting list. We will be processing the waiting list over the next few days and will attempt to keep people on it informed of the status of that processing.
Those who have already registered can still access their registration record via the link provided to them via email subsequent to registering. This link can be used to make corrections to their record, add a tutorial (a few seats remain for a subset of the tutorials), etc.
In earlier blog entries and in numerous mailing list postings, we encouraged early registration as we expected to sell all available seats. We hope you will be among those joining us for DUX 2005.
Posted by richard.anderson at 09:28 AM
October 07, 2005
Volunteer applications no longer being accepted
Many thanks to those who have offered to help out during the conference by assisting conference attendees and speakers, supporting conference sessions and events, etc.
We've had an overwhelming response to our call for volunteers, and we no longer need any additional offers.
If you have already volunteered your services but have not yet been contacted, send email to Volunteer Chair Teresa Hardy via volunteer@dux2005.org.
Posted by richard.anderson at 03:45 PM
September 30, 2005
Conference hotel room availability
This week, a rush on rooms reserved for DUX 2005 conference attendees at the conference hotel resulted in some people having difficulty securing a room at the conference rate.
In response, we have increased the size of the block of rooms reserved for conference attendees.
The conference rate for rooms in the conference hotel -- the historic waterfront Argonaut Hotel -- is available from 2 to 5 November. This rate is valid on extended dates of 31 October, 1 November, and 6-8 November based on availability only. The reservation cutoff date is 3 October, but, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that rooms at the conference rate will remain available until then.
See the conference website for more information on securing reservations at the Argonaut at the conference rate.
Posted by richard.anderson at 08:03 AM
September 18, 2005
Early registration rates through October 1
Register soon, as registration rates increase after October 1 (and we do expect a sellout).
Posted by richard.anderson at 09:17 PM