The second THATCamp AHA is drawing near: it will take place on Thursday 1/3 at the Sheraton New Orleans. We’ve got almost 50 participants — see who’s coming at aha2013.thatcamp.org/participants/ and log in to update your own profile information if you like (click “Lost your password?” if you need to). You can upload a profile picture at gravatar.com.

Now is also the time to start thinking about what you’d like to do or discuss at THATCamp AHA. From now till THATCamp AHA begins, you can propose one or more session ideas by logging in to the site, clicking Posts –> Add New, writing out your idea, then clicking “Publish” to post your idea on the site where we can all see and discuss it. See aha2013.thatcamp.org/propose/ for more information about how and what you might propose, not to mention a little bit of explanation about why things work this way at THATCamp. We’d particularly like to encourage “Make” sessions this year.

Please arrive at the Nottoway room in the Sheraton by 8:30am to pick up your THATCamp AHA badge so that we can begin creating a schedule promptly at 9am. We’ve got a full day for sessions this year.

Write me or on Twitter at @thatcamp with any questions, and go to thatcamp.org/activity to see what’s going on at other THATCamps around the world. Hope you find THATCamp AHA fun, productive, and collegial.