The Office 2.0 Conference will be preceded by an Unconference (aka Open Space) kindly organized by Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman, and Ross Mayfied, Socialtext CEO. The unconference is open to all conference attendees, as well as the general public. It will take place on September 5th, 2007, from 9:00AM to 5:00PM in the Impressionist room at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Registration is now open.

A $20 registration fee will be collected at the entrance (payment by cash or check). Coffee and snacks will be served during the event, but plans for lunch will be made on the fly by attendees, in pure unconference style. The hotel can only accommodate about 75 people, therefore registrations should be made as soon as possible.

For this event, we are using the RegOnline event registration system that is tightly integrated with Salesforce.com. If it works for this small project, we might use it for the main conference next year. So far, we’re pretty impressed by the set of features and options offered by RegOnline, even though integration with PayPal as a payment gateway is nowhere near as straightforward as the way Event Wax does it. It’s not exactly cheap either ($4.75 per registrant), but if it can remove a lot of manual steps and handle more payment options than what PayPal offers, this might very well be worth the expense.

In the meantime, we’re wrapping everything up for next week’s event.