FYI - Cal Football has a home game that day. Parking is going to be difficult to come by and expensive. Public transportation will also be pretty full so plan accordingly.

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/cal-m-footbl-s...

Uh oh. Parking in Berkeley is a hard even on ordinary days. I don't want to think what it would be like on the day of a football game. I would not recommend driving to this event. Park somewhere else and take the Bart in.

And I thought that the speaker list couldn't top last years. Yeah, I was wrong:

http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html

Thank you YC, Berkeley, St@b,etc. for putting this on.

Indeed, looks pretty amazing. Thankfully we don't have to choose between which ones to listen to, as that would be quite difficult.

Since "(so far)" hints there will likely be more, what's the expected speaker count?

Last year we had 11 so we'll probably have about that many this time.

Amazing list you've got so far. If you're taking input, I'd be very interested in seeing Eric Ries there as well.

Thank you.

Thanks for organizing this. I hope to see all of you there. This functions as the defacto international Hacker News meetup. Maybe, just maybe, Nickb will be seen in the same room as pg.

I think we should be able to buy our way in with HN karma ;)

With karma like yours I would be comfortable buying the plane ticket ahead of time.

I just turned in my application, then read the faq about getting responses.

...now, I'm wondering if I typed in my email address properly...no feedback until October...hmmm

One of the advantages of the rewritten application form is that you can edit your application. Just go to http://news.ycombinator.com/susapply again.

Sweet, thanks!

Would any other out of town HNers want to split a hotel room in SF? I figure I might make a trip of it and stay a few days.

I was going to do http://www.airbnb.com/

Is it possible to make a listing for a particular event, e.x. say I only wanted to open up my apartment to Startup School attendees?

Probably saying in your listing that you only want to rent to Startup School attendees and then confirming with them is good enough.

Sounds practical. I'm down if accepted.

Anyone know approximately how many applicants get accepted?

Look at the capacity of the venue... that is most likely the number.

No venue has been listed yet but Zellerbach Auditorium has a capacity of 2089 (http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/zellerbach_auditoriu...).

A venue has been listed, it's Wheeler Auditorium with 705 capacity. :( I think a 2000 person theater would have just felt too big, but I guess it would have been worth it anyways from our perspectives.

http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/wheeler/techspecs.ph...

Just out of curiosity, pg, why are you holding the event at Berkley this year?

Bigger facilities than that pretty junior college on the peninsula. :-)

I've been looking forward to this year's startup school for some time and hope I get the opportunity to go.

If accepted, I'd be flying in from the east coast. Since no one finds out before the submission deadline, I'm stuck making travel arrangements two to three weeks before the event, correct? Just want to make sure for planning purposes.

I'm in the same boat (Atlanta). Tickets are cheap from what I've found- $89 each way if I book nowish.

If its a choice between buying the ticket now for $89 or later for several hundred, you're probably off better buying now even if you think your chances of getting selected are slim.

Looks awesome. Wish I could be there.

Will this event be streaming on ustream/ some other variant for non west coast people?

Justin.tv usually streams/archives the talks.

I hope so, i watched the 2008 one on omnisio and learnt soooo much (this was around the time i started my startup) was able to write alot of points which i still follow now. Wish i could be there in person. Anway if it is streaming im going to be sure that i dont miss it.

What is meant by "tools" on the application? Any examples?