Dear Gnusteppers, I have made enquiries and have the following proposition for you:
Date: weekend of 1rst of September (Saturday to Sunday) (next available date would be weekend 29th of september) Place: Les Marecottes, Valais Switzerland Maps: http://www.marecottes.ch/images/acces/carte_suisse.gif http://www.marecottes.ch/images/acces/plan.jpg Hotel: http://www.hdm.ch/index-en.htm Price: I have a rate of 85 CHF per person with "demi pension" (breakfast and dinner) for workshop participants. Currently there are 12 beds available, but extra accomodation can be arranged. There are several other bed and breakfasts, as well as competing hotels within walking distance, so if you want to bring your partner or family I am sure we can make arrangements. The accomodation is shared, but definitely better than the youth hostel. There is one apartment with four beds, two rooms with double beds and two singles available at this time. This is a family run small hotel, which is well kept. The food is simple but good (large buffet breakfast). The hotel is 5 minutes walk from the narrow gauge railway station. It has ADSL internet connection (wireless) available for us to use. The breakfast room (bright north east mountain view) will be available for our workshop. The following webcam link gives you an idea of the view: http://www.swisswebcams.ch/english/webcam_les_mar%E9cottes_(1923_les_marecottes)_1045527182.html I have also found a vegetarian restaurant (macrobiotic) for those interested which is a twenty minute walk away (flat). This might be a good idea for lunch: http://www.biohotels.info/e/15436/accomodation_bio For those with partners that are interested in art, there is the Gianadda museum http://www.gianadda.ch/ in Martigny (thirty minutes by train) from the hotel. The exposition will be Marc Chagall, Entre ciel et terre 6 July – 19 November 2007 They also have an automobile museum. For those more outdoor oriented, there are lots of possibilities for hiking, canyoning as well as the train (goes to Chamonix). We will also be a ten minutes walk from a fantastic swimming pool and local zoo. Some photos are here: http://www.marecottes.ch/galerie_sports.php For the workshop, I can arrange extra electrical adapters (let me know what you need) and extension cords. Gürkan has offered to bring a network switch from the university. I am also willing to bring my flat screen and a machine (512 MB ram, 1.7 GHz cpu with 20 and 80 G disks for file serving and compiling). Will we want a projector, flip chart, printer ? I am willing to pick up anyone flying in to Geneva and take them with in our car (seats five - station wagon). I can also put up a guest either before or after in Geneva (my office has a large double bed). For train travel the following site in english helps you choose your connections (2 hours from Geneva): http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm This is the french speaking part of Switzerland, but many of us are good english speakers, so I think you will all feel welcome. Looking forward to your feedback. Please advise at your earliest convenience how this looks for you and if you want me to book for you. There should be no problem for those who want to arrive friday evening. I would like to be able to get back to the hotel by Wednesday or Thursday this week, so please get back to me at your earliest convenience. I hope some good discussions and code can be worked on as well as having a good time. I expect the agenda will have to be set by the participants, preferably in advance. I am also willing to see if we can have a gnustep cake invented so let me know if you have any food allergies so you are not disappointed. Thanks for your interest. -- Gerold Rupprecht 10 rue Louis-Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland Tel./Fax (41) 022 347 73 96 () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML mail and Microsoft attachments. /\ Software patents are endangering the computer industry all around the world. Join the LPF: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/ http://petition.eurolinux.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
