Lua Workshop 2008

registration · program · venue · accommodation · organization · participants · abstracts

A Lua workshop will be held at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C on July 14-15, 2008.

Like previous workshops in 2005 and 2006, the main goal of the workshop is to allow the Lua community (or at least part of it) to get together and meet in person and talk about the Lua language, its uses, and its implementation. Another goal is to help spread the word about Lua to industry and academia, taking advantage of the location of the workshop.

The workshop is open to everyone interested in Lua. There is no registration fee but participants are required to register.

Program

Scheduled presentations (so far):

Note: for the most part, the above titles have been made up by me (Matt) and will be replaced by titles actually written by the speakers!

Venue

The workshop will be held on GW's Mount Vernon campus. The MV campus is where those staying in dorm rooms will be housed. If you will be staying off-campus, there is a free shuttle (10 minute ride) from GW's downtown campus (see here for shuttle details).

In particular, the workshop will be held in the Hand Chapel (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, and campus map). The chapel's A/V facilities include a PC connected to a large presentation screen, plugs if you want to project your laptop, a smart board, a white board, CD/DVD, and a microphone/speakers. If you have any particular requests, please email the organizers. Please Note: if you have difficulty navigating stairs, email Mattew Burke.

Accommodation

Single and double-occupancy dormitory rooms are available on GW's Mount Vernon campus (the site of the workshop). The cost (including tax) for a double-occupancy room is $39.80 per person per night if you are staying one or two nights and $36.35 per person per night if you stay more than two nights. For single occupancy, the costs are $70.70/$64.98 per night.

Dormitory rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis so we need to get reservations in soon. If you are interested in a room, please fill in the form below and email it to the organizers by Sunday, 17 February 2008.

Lua Workshop 2008——Dorm room request form

Name:
Email:
___ Single or ___ Double
Date of Arrival:
Date of Departure:

Please list your annoying habits (if any):


What habits can/can't you stand in a potential roommate (smoking, snoring, etc.):

You will receive updates concerning your reservation request as soon as possible. A deposit will be required, details to follow. Room requests received after the 17th will be accomodated if possible.

There are several hotels in downtown Washington that offer special rates for those attending functions at GWU. These hotels are all within a 10-15 minute walk of the Mount Vernon shuttle bus stops on the Foggy Bottom campus. If you choose to stay at one of these hotels, plan on spending 30-40 minutes to get from your hotel to the workshop (walk to the shuttle stop, wait for shuttle, 10-15 minute shuttle ride).

The following map shows the locations of the shuttle bus stops, the Foggy Bottom campus, the hotels with special rates, and the Mount Vernon campus (where the workshop will be held). The blue pinpoint is the the Georgetown University Conference Hotel. It doesn't have a GWU rate, and there's no easy way to get from there to the Mount Vernon campus other than by foot or taxi (it's about 1.5 miles), but it is the closest hotel to the workshop. Contact information for the hotels can be found here, or by clicking on the map.


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Each day we will provide breakfast, lunch and two coffee breaks at the workshop. Dinner will be on your own. Locations of a variety of restaurants will be added to the map as the date of the workshop approaches.

Registration

There is no registration fee but registration is required. To register, please fill the form below and send it to lua.workshop@gmail.com. As confirmation, your name will appear in the list of participants. 

Lua Workshop 2008——Registration form

* Data to appear on badge
  Name:
  Affiliation:

* If you plan to give a talk
  Title:
  Abstract:

Organization

Organized by Matthew M. Burke, Daniel Silverstone and the Lua team. The organizers can be contacted at lua.workshop@gmail.com.

Sponsored by [GWU Computer Science], [MCCI], [Flying Meat], VeriSign Inc. www.verisign.com,
and ... Your Name Here.

Participants

The people below have registered for the workshop. (If you have sent a registration and your name does not appear here in a couple of days, please let us know.)

Abstracts

TBD.
Last update: Tue Apr 29 19:40:26 BRST 2008