Here are some ways those not attending ALT-C 2011 can benefit from the conference.

1. Conference Publications - the Conference Abstracts and the Proceedings Papers are available now as Open Access publications.
2. Plenary Keynote Sessions and Invited Speaker Sessions will be streamed, with online moderation throughout, using Adobe Connect. Details of what will be streamed, when, and how to access it.
3. The hashtag for the conference is #altc2011 and ALT's Twitter channel - @A_L_T - will be used to announce the starts of publicly accessible sessions throughout the conference shortly before each begins.
4. There will be a public web TV channel from the conference, with "vox pop" reactions to the conference from participants. Details here from 5 September.
5. The full conference timetable and abstracts for all the sessions are available in interactive form on the conference networking site.

ALT does not charge for remote participation; at the same time we make no guarantees that things will work exactly as planned.