Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Clancy
I work for a company near Kendall Square and the Kendall/MIT T-stop (very near the Residence Inn). Our building has some common rooms on one floor of our building that are often used by various tennants in the buiding for things such as company meetings. I've mentioned the idea of

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread Uri Guttman
BC == Bob Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC I work for a company near Kendall Square and the Kendall/MIT BC T-stop (very near the Residence Inn). BC Our building has some common rooms on one floor of our building BC that are often used by various tennants in the buiding for things

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Clancy
URI i will be glad to talk to you and i can could even be on a URI speaker phon eat that meeting if i can schedule it if you URI want it. I think I'll take you up on this offer. I'm sending you my contact information via private email. URI yapc needs three rooms with 100+ seats in each for the

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:23:27PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: BC == Bob Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC I work for a company near Kendall Square and the Kendall/MIT BC T-stop (very near the Residence Inn). BC Our building has some common rooms on one floor of our building BC

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:04:17PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: BC == Bob Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: URI and i like yapc::cambridge over yapc::boston :) BC yapc::cambridge, hosted by boston.pm sounds good! Er, YAPC::NA, located in Cambridge, hosted by Boston.pm ... --

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-31 Thread Uri Guttman
JM == John Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:04:17PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: BC == Bob Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: URI and i like yapc::cambridge over yapc::boston :) BC yapc::cambridge, hosted by boston.pm sounds good! JM Er,

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-27 Thread Uri Guttman
JM == John Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KAG I poked around MIT's conference site. They have everything we need KAG (even a couple of large hotels right next to campus), but we need KAG 1) An official sponsor. SIPB might qualify, at a stretch. Some tenured KAG faculty member

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-27 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:17, Uri Guttman wrote: KAG == Kenneth A Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KAG http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt has the full list. The key KAG thing missing from above is a venue to hold dinner for everyone. KAG Toronto did this with the cruise. We should

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-26 Thread Kripa Sundar
Dear Uri and others, I spoke to lesley.edu . Their largest theatre has 189 seats only. The lady who helped me could not offer any other suggestions. So I guess Lesley is out. To make further enquiries, we (those of us who are volunteers/followers) need to know the following information at

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-26 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:31:26PM -0400, John Macdonald wrote: [ ... ] I'll be in town at the time of the September meeting, so if anyone wants to talk then about hosting a yapc, I can tell you what we did in Toronto, or at least the part that I was aware of. Darn. My course just got

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-26 Thread Uri Guttman
KS == Kripa Sundar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS Dear Uri and others, KS I spoke to lesley.edu . Their largest theatre has 189 seats only. KS The lady who helped me could not offer any other suggestions. KS So I guess Lesley is out. thanx for the effort. KS To make further

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-26 Thread Uri Guttman
KAG == Kenneth A Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KAG On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:16, Kripa Sundar wrote: To make further enquiries, we (those of us who are volunteers/followers) need to know the following information at least: * what part of the year | June 2006 KAG Late

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Ricker, William
Uri, while back, sean put some effort into getting BU for yapc but that got shelved. A worthy effort, for which we all applauded Sean at the time, and laud him now again. One would expect our high density of schools to make it easy here. However, at least some of the larger local

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Uri Guttman
RW == Ricker, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW Uri, while back, sean put some effort into getting BU for yapc but that got shelved. RW A worthy effort, for which we all applauded Sean at the time, and laud RW him now again. agreed. if we could get a decent site (fsdo

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Kripa Sundar
Dear Uri, so an easy thing to do is to search the local college sites for similar pages and see what is out there. then call someone and get some more info. this is something anyone (even kripa! :) can do. in fact can someone call the lesley contact on that page and see if they have larger

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:02:57PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: i think boston would make a great place for yapc. [ ... ] what about showing to the other host cities how much better boston is for yapc? No way that Boston could match the job done in Toronto. :-) I'm sorry to hear that there