Reminders: Anniversary Parties, Daily Logos, Mobile Beta

The 15h anniversary extravaganza month of October continues, and with it two reminders:

First, you're invited to meet up with other readers in real life at crowd-sourced Slashdot gatherings. New party registrations have closed, but you can still sign up to attend one of the anniversary gatherings, and we hope you do. While we can't send T-shirts to every party organized (though ThinkGeek would love you to consider the conventional T-shirt-acquisition method), several hundred of them in total are on the way to the larger reader-organized parties in the U.S. and Mexico.

Second, we hope you're enjoying the reader-submitted logos that have been appearing in place of the regular Slashdot logo each day this month; it's been a blast to see the creative designs that come in. Engineer Tim Vroom today set up a page showing all the logo designs that have run so far, if you want to check them out in one spot. We'll be asking for reader reaction soon (when the month is through) on which one is "best of show" (worthy of a Nexus 7 tablet). If you think "Ha! I can do better!", well, then — submit a design. Nothing says you can't submit (or be selected) for multiple days. We've got some great options for the days to come already, but we hope you'll try to top them with clever ideas, even if in the end the near-sighted and ignorant judges don't appreciate your efforts.

One more note: if you're using a recent smart phone, we hope you'll point your phone's browser to the revamped Mobile version of the site, currently in beta. There are some features that are still to come, but the Mobile site works on a wide range of devices, and is a lot easier on the eyes than reading the full-sized site on a tiny screen. Your participation will help make it better, too.