Hi Nick, very good idea, it will be really helpful.
Regards JB On 06/13/2012 01:19 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
Hi All As hopefully everyone is aware, the ApacheCon Europe event isn't taking place in a hotel this time. Instead, we'll be at a dedicted conference venue, which means people will need more information than usual about the local area. I had a chat with a few people at Berlin Buzzwords last week about this, and the general consensus seemed to be that the wiki would be a good place to capture this information, and that we'll be best off crowd-sourcing it from our volunteers (everyone on this list!). I believe that while some parts can probably only be done by people nearby, a lot of it can be done by anyone with help from google :) I think the initial list of information we want to provide to people is: * If you want to stay near the venue, what accomodation options are there nearby? * If you're happy to stay further out, which major towns / cities are a sensible journey by public transport? For these places, what is the normal journey length, what's the typical service interval (including in the evening, post meetups etc), and what's a typical return fare? * For people looking for drinks / near the venue (eg people not attending that evening's meetups etc), what are the options? * If a group of people wanted to get together to book out somewhere to stay, near-ish the venue, are there any sensible options for larger groups? (Say 20-40 people range) For now, I think the best place to capture this info is on some new pages on the ApacheCon Wiki: <http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage>. I guess we'll want a few new pages, linked from the ApacheCon EU 2012 section, feel free to set out the structure if you're happy to put in the work populating the content :) For spam protection reasons, you'll need to be added to the contributors group[1] before you can edit, if you're not already listed from a past event. If you register and reply to this with your username, we'll get you listed hopefully pretty quickly, so you can get on and edit. Cheers Nick
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