“They’re giant, round, fuzzy, stuffed animals. Hug them.™”

Squishable has joined the intervention sponsors! Some lucky attendees will be receiving some Squishables at the con this year. Keep an eye out – you never know when you might be attacked by A GIANT SQUISHY ADORABLE THING!!!!

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We’ve been contacted by Dr. Ben Bova and informed that due to illness he will not be able to attend Intervention 2010. We wish him well and hope he has a speedy recovery.

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Tango reports an awesome thing he is doing at the con!

I (Tango) will be bringing a stack of postcards to Intervention that will have a special invite code on them that will allow Intervention attendees to create their own Dreamwidth accounts. Some will be left on the flyer table each day, and some will be handed out.

For those unfamiliar with Dreamwidth, it is an online community similar to LiveJournal and running an updated fork of LiveJournal’s open source code. Normally, the only ways to get a Dreamwidth account are to buy one or be invited by an existing user. The invite code on the cards is a special promotional code with limited uses, but will still create a full-featured free account.

More information on Dreamwidth can be found at http://www.dreamwidth.org. I personally recommend reviewing their diversity statement and guiding principles linked at the bottom of the main page to see how they are different from other online communities.

If you are doing something awesome at Intervention, let us now. This con is for you and we would love to blog about you! :D

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Enablers:

Your badges were mailed out (along with fun stickers and stuff) early last week! You should be receiving your badge any day now, minus the holiday post office closure! We love you guys! We could not have done this without you!

Kids?

No babysitter, no problem! Dd you know that kids 12 and under are free? Most events are all ages. The events that are not all ages are generally later in the day, clearly marked with a sign and a security guard out front checking ID.

Hours?

The hours are listed here. The con goes mostly nonstop from Friday at noon until Sunday at 4PM! We will stop the party when the last person falls asleep! Check out the programming and gaming schedule for notes on specific event times.

WiFi:

We are pleased that we are able to have free WiFi available for all of our guests and vendors to take payment!

The Home Stretch

Intervention is this week! Can you believe it? It is so surreal! The long hours we have worked for the last 6+ months are finally taking physical form! We just got back from the Hilton Rockville and completed the last of our network tests for the WiFi and crowd flow studies and staff training! Wow, we never sleep…but how can I sleep when I have this much awesome for you guys? I can’t wait to meet you all!

We are SO on point this year! We are just down to printing signage for the event and buying food – everything else is already done. We truly rocked it this year, and we will continue to do so for many years to come thanks to you! We have the most wonderful staff, volunteers, and fans. Our good friends cheering us on from the sidelines have been an unlimited source of inspiration along the way! :D

Not bad for a first year! I must restrain myself from planning the second year until the first one is over… :)

BTW: Don’t stop checking this site after the con – we will be recording everything that we can thanks to our wonderful tech staff. Videos of many panels, photos of the fun, and other things will be updated on this site after the con. In fact, I doubt the site will stop updating until we start posting about Intervention 2011. Even if you cant go, you can still donate and watch the free movies of our programming right here after the event! :D

We are the con that never sleeps because we love it that much!

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Intervention Co-Chair Onezumi was interviewed recently for the Washington City Paper. The article is now online and available to view here

A huge shout out of thanks to Mike Rhode for taking the time to get this together for us.

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We have a few updates on the Intervention news front:

First off our Enabler Badges have all been sent out, so for you guys who pitched in with some extra help this year, expect your registration badges to come in the mail early next week. You can walk right into the con and go straight to events if you want to–but stop by the Help Desk (not the Reg Desk–you should never need to see that :) ) at some point to get your con book, customized lanyard, and any other freebies/updates we might have for attendees.

Secondly, Squishable has joined the list of Sponsors for Intervention this year. So yes, we will have a ton of plush animal pillows to give away. Except the pile Onezumi and I keep…and clutch…and hold…for the duration of the con.

Next up we have details of the 2 major LARP events happening at Intervention. The main entries have been posted in the Gaming Events section of the Programming page. This year we have a Humans Vs. Zombies LARP called Interfection, as well as a Vampire the Masquerade LARP by the Echoes Of Empires group.

Lastly we have posted a con layout image on the Program Schedule page as well as the Location page. And for good measure it’s also right here:

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Intervention is now on the front page of Wired.com in a nice overview write up by the “Geek Dad” blog writer Corrina Lawson. The article itself is here.
We want to thank Wired for the coverage of the event…and hey, if some of you guys at Wired want to stop by, let us know :)

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Click here to check out the podcast!

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Following on the offer Darkstar Studios recently made to our attendees, one of our Artist Alley Participants, Phantom Blush, made this offer in our forum:

Visit my table in Artist Alley and get a free button! Details at www.phantomblush.com Hope to see you there!

You might want to bring a bigger bag with you to Intervention, it looks like you’ll be leaving with more than you thought.

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Book your room now!

If you have booked outside of the hotel block, please email your confirmation to hotel at interventioncon dot com so that the convention can get credit for the room. This will help the con A LOT with no additional effort. :)

(If you booked with AAA or any other discount code, you were kicked out of the hotel block.)

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