If you're headed to a technical conference in the upcoming months but don't know anyone else attending, you might want to check out a few tips that Lorna Mitchell has put together to help break the ice.

These are my top tips for getting along and meeting new people at a technical conference.

Her five (well, six) tips are simple ones - things like getting in on the pre-conference hype (on things like twitter or IRC) attend some of the "outside the sessions" events and, if you can, staying around an extra day after the official conference is over.