The area around Tech Shop and the Best Western is modern suburbia, nothing like downtown Detroit.
The Best Western itself is an old school full service large motel complex. Well maintained but looks like something from the 1980s era. Location is not walkable except for the on site restaurant and other facilities. A few minutes by car gets you to shopping malls and such. There are many places to stay near the airport for prices in the mid 50s but they are 20 minutes away and offer only the basics. The facility at Tech Shop is great. It is a former Ford Motor Company training center. Modern, lots of space, power, internet, and free coffee during the show. There is a machine shop that is fairly well equipped, but you must make arrangements if you need to use it because it runs as a traditional Tech Shop site. Many in the crowd last year were folks that I have seen at the previous CNC Workshops going all the way back to the original shows at Roland's place. If you are close by, I highly recommend dropping in Saturday morning as it is free then. http://www.thecncworkshop.com/ Regular admission with seminars is $125 but if you want to be an exhibitor (non-commercial) you can bring stuff to show and demonstrate and this will get you $50 off of admission. Steve Stallings > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Craig [mailto:jimcraig5...@windstream.net] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 9:13 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc > Fest, 2016 ? > > I would like to come to the workshop and I could possibly > present. If we > are coming as a presenter do we register as a student on the webpage? > > I see the Best Western Greenfield Inn is close by. Has anybody stayed > there. Is this a good part of town to stay overnight? I am totally > unfamiliar with the greater Detroit area. > > I am not sure I can make it for Wednesday thru Saturday. I > might be able > to make it for Thursday and Friday. > > Jim > > > > On 5/2/2016 6:08 PM, Ron Ginger wrote: > > I would really like to see more linuxCNC presence at the > workshop. So > > far Jon Elson and Bob Luken have agreed to do a session on > LinuxCNC, but > > I could make a lot more room for Linux sessions. I have > several slots on > > Friday which I want to be 'how I did my system' talks by > users. There is > > room in the techShop to have a linux area. There will be a > few vendors- > > Tormach included. > > > > We have set Saturday as a free open to the public day to a > swap meet and > > the vendor displays. > > > > This is not that big of an event- it is really the > continuation of what > > started at Rolands shop in Galesburg IL several years ago > where linux > > had a huge presence. > > > > ron ginger > > > > > > On 5/2/2016 2:24 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> On 05/02/2016 10:27 AM, bari wrote: > >> > >> I'd like that very much. > >> > >> > >>>> Any ideas where to hold it? Are there any other events > this summer with > >>>> overlapping interests? > >> There's "The CNC Workshop 2016", June 8-16 in Detroit: > >> http://www.thecncworkshop.com/ > >> > >> That seems like a big expo with vendors and classes and > things (which is > >> important for project visibility), though i prefer a more focused > >> developer-centric hackfest like what we did at Tx/Rx. > >> > >> > >> -- Sebastian Kuzminsky > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > > Find and fix application performance issues faster with > Applications Manager > > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights > into multiple tiers of > > your business applications. It resolves application > problems quickly and > > reduces your MTTR. 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