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I'm going to basically assume that I can help a bit on the conference itself, which will be in Managua, and help out on visitors to SJDS, those that want to vacation a little and see more of the country. That said, I'll plug my fav town a little bit more below. 2011/8/23 Leandro Gómez <[email protected]>: > 2011/8/23 Dave Taht <[email protected]> >> >> As for conference facilities, depends on how much you need... you >> could easily take over several restaurants during the day... >> > > You can take a look at the Priority List and Location Check List over here: > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/PriorityList > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/LocationCheckList > Basically, we need food, accomodation and conference facilities for ~300 > people. Internet connection of 10/20 Mbits at least. Accesibility is not an > option; the hotels and conference facilities *must* be ready and safe for > people with any kind of handicap. Food & Accommodation would not be a problem, or so I think. On the high end, there's pelican eyes in addition to villas de palermo, as well as a large-but-often-closed place in remanso... and on the lower end, all sorts of accommodation down to several excellent hostels such as http://www.casaeloro.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Casa-Feliz/188497327840409 The place absorbed the survivor team fairly well. conference facilities is tougher... from a random walk perspective there would be numerous rooms/spaces around a 7 block area in town that could be used. I'm not terribly familiar with the insides of the two big hotels mentioned - just the pools! As for handicaps - I've only seen one wheelchair lift in my time down there. HOWEVER - it's perfectly safe to walk in the center of the street most of the time, and I have a paraplegic friend there that manages well. This is not a first world country - also lacking in most places are things like air conditioning. And things like the water and electric fail on a regular basis. As for bandwidth, there's plenty, spread around in nearly every hotel, restauarant and cafe. It's the latency that gets people, not the bandwidth. There is a long time between click and response - the nearest F-root dns server is 80ms away, as one example - redwood city, california 140ms away... > Local people is something we really > need. Even a 4 hour round trip is problematic when most of our team members > are from Managua. I will ping a few people that live in or near managua to see what help can be had there. And > >> >> Anyway, I've made my pitch. I was planning to be back there by january >> myself, and could help. >> > > Please contact us when you come back. Help is always welcome! Well, I am contacting you now. :) I'll be in europe through late December, but was planning on a few months back in SJDS after Christmas... -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
