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Xlights 2017 Conference, Las Vegas
      When: May 20&21 2017
      Where: Palace Station,Las Vegas. Salon B,C,D

This year we will have two rooms!! This means twice the hours than last year, same price as last year.

Room 1: will be hosted by Sean Meighan teaching beginning/intermediate xLights. We will cover everything from not knowing how to spell xLights to getting your first show running. This session will cover creating models and groups, best way to layout house, how to mark up timing marks, over view of all effects, how to import LOR sequences two different ways, how to setup scheduler using FPP and  the new xSchedule.exe program.

Room 2: will be covering advanced xLights. Teachers will be Keith Westley (He is flying in from Australia), Gil Jones (I expect his skulltronix skull will be part of demo) and Lilia Meighan showing how to create effective sequences. Advanced topics cover timing marks, best ways to create singing faces (3 methods), layering, how to setup rds, triggers for your FPP show and more.

Schedule: meet at 8am and start 8:30am to 5pm daily .
There are two ways to attend:
1) In person, Cost $200 for weekend
2) via zoom webinar. $40 to be able to stream from either of the rooms for the weekend.

both webinar and seminar attendees will be given a link to download the raw video footage that will be made. This will be 32 hours or around 60 gbytes. 
 
Lilia will offer one free sequence to all attendees (her choice for sequence). We will also raffle off one sequence (you pick from 43 choices) for seminar attendees and 1 sequence for webinar attendees (You pick from 43 choices).

Agenda for the two rooms will be posted in the next few weeks. I am going to take polls in the next few weeks to see what subjects users might want to see covered.

The classes or webinar can be purchased from the xLights store
http://www.nutcracker123.com/store/index.php?cPath=2

I will consider putting the videos also available for sale in the store . I am thinking of putting them on a 64 or 128gbyte usb flash drive. DVDs are out of the question as we would nearly 20 of them.

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2017, 09:09:46 PM »
Sean, this is really exciting especially your doing the advanced work wow!

I definatily will plan on being there and can hardly wait, I have at least six of Lilia's sequences and that includes the Russian Dance you gave us last year. I learned a lot from these sequences and want to learn more.
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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2017, 06:25:39 PM »
My reservations for the room at the hotel have been made. Looking forward to a weekend of learning.

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2017, 09:05:55 PM »
i booked originally in older section of palace station. $68/night.
My wife told me she could smell cigarette smoke from there when we visited last year.
So ...
I have rebooked into the tower for $113/night.

she is sensitive to smoke.

look forward to meeting everyone
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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2017, 09:29:46 AM »
Wish I could justify this, but hopefully will see you at the Expo.  Bring Lilia and the boys and have a little vacation in Nashville.  It would be good for Lilia to meet more of her customers.  She could even give a one hour presentation and get a free registration.
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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2017, 09:52:04 AM »
i am trying to talk her into the expo. we will see...
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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2017, 03:53:24 PM »
so that is 100% that Lillia is coming to Vegas again Sean?

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2017, 01:40:23 PM »
yes, Lilia will be in Vegas and will be giving at least a two hour talk on how she sequences.

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2017, 01:54:01 PM »
I believe I'm coming to Vegas. Would like to meet all you that has created xlights. Sounds like a good time. For am am a newbie! To the hobby!

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2017, 04:23:51 PM »
Sean,

The Store description says "April 2017". I would like to confirm May 21,22 2017 is correct

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2017, 08:30:36 PM »
Sean,

The Store description says "April 2017". I would like to confirm May 21,22 2017 is correct

Thread title has it correct.  You just typed it wrong by a day.

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2017, 05:27:56 PM »
As a nub, I'd love to have the flash drive copies so I can reference to them as I'm learning. I'd like to know the pricing for those but am going to try and attend the virtual sessions as well


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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2017, 06:28:57 PM »
I noticed that it is April 2017 also, so I have not paid for it yet. I emailed from the website to ask by have not received a reply yet.

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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2017, 07:28:28 PM »
The conference is May 20,21 2017. ill correct the web site
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Re: xLights Conference 2017, Las Vegas. May 20,21 at Palace Station Casino
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2017, 02:09:34 PM »
Is there (or will there be) a cutoff date for registration?