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This is the Diva Las Vegas 2016 announcement mailing list.

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In this mailing:

Holiday Wishes
Suggested hotels for Diva Las Vegas 2016
Special DLV 2016 Rates at Flamingo Las Vegas
Registration for Diva Las Vegas 2016
New Internet domain for Diva Las Vegas
Things to come
Administrivia
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Holiday Wishes:

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year to you and yours
from the organizers and volunteers of DLV.

We're sincerely hoping to see you in person for Diva Las Vegas 2016
next March!
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Special hotel rates at the Flamingo Las Vegas will be available to DLV
2016 attendees. See item below.
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Diva Las Vegas will soon have a new Internet domain! See details below.

If you use an email filtering service, please be sure that the email
address: dlv@divalas.vegas is on your whitelist prior to the first of
the year.
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Suggested hotels for Diva Las Vegas 2016:

For Diva Las Vegas there is no requirement that you stay in any
particular hotel. Unlike most other TG events, we are not centered
around a hotel, and hotels are used mainly for attendee lodging.

We do, however, make hotel suggestions, mainly for those who do not know
the area, and for those who want to be in the proximity of other DLV
attendees.

This year we are suggesting the following hotels (in alphabetical order)
for DLV 2016 attendees:

* Flamingo
* Four Queens
* Paris

Further information on our suggested hotels for DLV 2016 appears here:

http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/dlv2016/2016hotels.html

A special rate is offered to DLV 2016 attendees who will be staying
at the Flamingo. Please see item immediately below.

The Four Queens, located in downtown Las Vegas, is not recommended for
those who will not be driving a vehicle or those who do not have
pre-arranged rides to DLV activities.

In the event that none of our suggested hotels appeal to you, you may
use the following two Big List items as secondary lists of hotels from
which to choose for DLV 2016:

Casino-Hotels:

http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/vendors/#CasinoHotel

Non-Gaming Hotels:

http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/vendors/#Non-gamingHotel
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Special DLV 2016 Rates at Flamingo Las Vegas:

We have an agreement with Las Vegas Flamingo for the following room
rates for DLV2016, starting on Sunday, March 27, and running through
Saturday, April 2nd.

Room rate for Sunday is $55, Monday thru Wednesday $45, Thursday $55,
and Friday $109. If you book the entire week ($354) the average room
rate will equal $59 PER NIGHT!

This does not include tax and resort fee which is now standard on almost
all strip properties and other hotels around Las Vegas. Resort fee is
$29/night and includes unlimited local phone calls, 2 guest admissions
per day to the Fitness Center, in-room internet access for up to two
devices per room, free parking with unlimited in/out privileges as well
as valet parking. Room rates are based on single and double occupancy.
Additional charges may apply for additional guests in room.

Booking will be available through the hotel starting December 15th
through January 15th. Contact information will be forthcoming. Please
wait until December 15th to book your rooms.

A general mailing will be sent to this list as soon as specific booking
details are known.
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Registration for Diva Las Vegas 2016:

Re-registration for those who have previously attended one of our events
will open in mid December.

Most of you who have attended in recent years will receive your express
re-registration email toward the middle of December. This will contain
the link to your Attendee Information Portal. This will allow you to
quickly re-register for DLV 2016 with very little formality.

New attendee registration for members of this list (if you are reading
this via your own email, this includes you) will open in early January.

If you're a MyDLV member, you can register or re-register at your
convenience by using the "Attendee Information Portal" link on the
main MyDLV screen.
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Sign-up for activities will begin on or about March 1 and will be
accessed via the Attendee Information Portal.
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New Internet domain for Diva Las Vegas:

The new domain for Diva Las Vegas is: divalas.vegas

No "www." no ".com" just "divalas.vegas"

For browsers, it's: http://divalas.vegas

Just type "divalas.vegas" into your browser's location bar.

For email it's: dlv@divalas.vegas

This new domain will be phased in over the next six months or so, with
the main divalas.vegas web site and major email addresses becoming
active on January 1.

Don't worry, all existing web pages, email addresses, bookmarks, links,
etc. will continue to work as expected.

The only thing that you, as a DLV attendee may need to do, is that if
you use an email filtering service, please be sure that the email
address: dlv@divalas.vegas is on your whitelist prior to the first of
the year.
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Plans for the phase in of the new divalas.vegas domain are as follows:

January 1: Activate the new http://divalas.vegas web site and the major
email addresses in the divalas.vegas domain. MyDLV functions and most of
the previous years' follow-up pages will remain on the existing domain
at this time.

The Attendee Information Portal will remain on the existing domain until
the DLV 2016 event has concluded.

May-June: MyDLV and associated functions will be moved to tne new
divalas.vegas domain.

We're taking pains to assure that no existing email addresses,
bookmarks, links, etc. will break! All existing working email addresses
and URLs will continue to work as expected for the immediate and long
term future.

A related project is to update the 1999-2011 follow-up pages, which
until recently had dated-looking and inconsistent themes, to the newer
theme which is used by MyDLV and the recent-years' follow-up pages. This
will allow comments on the older photos, as well as showing a "hit
count" displaying how many times a photo has been viewed.
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Things to come:

Since our 2016 annual event will occur earlier in the calendar year than
in many recent years, many of the usual milestones and checkpoints will
occur earlier than they have in nost recent years.

Re-registration for previous attendees will start mid December. See note
above.

New attendee registration for those who are members of this mailing list
(if you are reading this via your personal email, this includes you)
will begin in January, exact date unknown at this time. Watch your inbox
right after the first of the year.

General (open) registration will begin sometime in February.

Activity Sign-up (where you sign up for the various optional activities
which happen during our event) is scheduled to begin March 1, 2016.

Friday, March 25, 12:01am PDT will be a hard-stop cut-off for DLV 2016
registrations, activity sign-ups, and related items.
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Administrivia:

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Monday March 28 thru Saturday, April 2, 2016
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