[georgemcbay]

Don't make any travel/hotel reservations until you have the I/O ticket reserved, the registration is always a clusterfuck where getting a ticket basically amounts to winning a minor lottery.

Also sometimes they just randomly change the announced date prior to registration (eg. from April to June) for extra "Fuck You" to people who plan ahead.

I don't think it really matters where you're connecting from though, the servers basically just die under the load and you may or may not get lucky by hitting the right load balancer at the right time but where you're coming from and what your latency is doesn't really matter too much. It is a horrible experience for people in California just as it is a horrible experience for people in Europe.

[lnanek2]

True that, I know six people in the US and myself all tried the moment sales opened last time and none of us got in. Lets hope Google rents all of Moscone instead of just Moscone West this year. Java ONE handles much bigger crowds than they do, making Google look like amateurs.

[dntrkv]

From their help page:

"The 2013 conference will be held from May 15-17 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco."

https://developers.google.com/events/io/help#reg_tips