This conference is actually gonna happen this year! WOO! Sorry... pent up joy due to the failure of last year's conference...
Now, as for when:
Right now the schedule seems to be Thursday from 12 to 1 and Friday during lunch (don't know when it's scheduled...). The reasons for two conferences are that there are a lot of people with a lot of cool ideas which you just can't get to all at once, a lot of people could forget/get drawn away by robot problems, and sometimes you just gotta be with your team.
Team 422 will be handing out fliers both Thursday and Friday to remind everyone. On Thursday we will have a complimentary "runner" service. You tell us when your next practice match number is, we'll keep everyone informed of what matches are going on in what stadium. That way, nobody misses a match they have to attend.
Also, 422 will steal a bit of time at the beginning of the two conferences to announce our desperate need for web space, a domain name, and general help to keep the CODEX somewhat alive. It's been in a coma for the past couple of months, so...
One last thing. If everything works out well, we'll be giving out logic chips from an old Apple IIE's motherboard to every programmer that shows up (first come first serve) as a general programmer-only handout. We just have to figure out how to mount them somewhere so that they don't impale the wearer...
If anyone wants to figure out an actual agenda so we can do presentations maybe (like StangSense, acceleration programming, crab drive... anything), just respond here and we'll set things up.
One... teeny... last thing
422 will also hand out what we call the "PBasic Field Manual". Essentially it's a medium-sized packet going over everything in the big red PBasic Bible applicable to the robotics competition, squished into a readable size without confusing non-robotic examples. Respond if you're interested, because we may not have enough copies for everyone.