Ari Pollak dijo [Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:56:10PM -0500]: > This is from Benjamin Mako Hill, who's not subscribed to the list: > (...)
Thanks, nice overview... > Second, the MIT campus is much less spread out than Helsinki. The > downside is that there won't be as many big open green spaces to play > soccer or frisbee in, for example. The upside is that nothing will be > more than a 5 to 10 minute walk away from anything else at MIT. I can perfectly imaginge H01ger "yay"ing for this no-grass policy. And yes, you are giving maximum times - I hope/expect that all of the facilities we would use will be closer together (i.e. 5-10 minutes was +- the walking distance to the Helsinki auditorium, to the Oaxtepec tower, to the Edinburgh hostels - which were seen as "far"). > Third, the dining experience will be quite different. We'll have more > a-la-cart at normal restaurants than at a single cafeteria. Toronto is > actually a pretty good comparison in this regard although in Toronto there > was no funded food. I suspect most people will eat "food court" style on > most days. How expensive would dishes be in average? IIRC, just for comparison, food was at ~USD$12 a day (lunch and dinner) in Mexico, and ~USD$20 at Edinburgh (lunch and dinner as well). Besides DC6 and DC7, we have always had breakfast covered as well. > The final comparison, which I think is different from every DebConf > except maybe Edinburgh, is that we'll be right in the center of > Cambridge. Boston is a short walk across the river and Central Square > Cambridge is a 5 minute walk from the venue. We're right near a major > bus and a subway stop. You can treat that as either access to a major US city > with lots of attractions or as things to distract from the conference. :) That's a very nice plus, I'd say! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [email protected] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
