Hey! You are in the board now! Good job! Have fun in Montreal! Je me souviens :)
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Ryan Lortie <de...@desrt.ca> wrote: > Hello foundation members, > > Despite some heroic efforts by Colin and Karen, we were unable to > acquire a venue in Cambridge for this year's Boston Summit. > > Fortunately, some kind folks from Collabora jumped in and offered to > help organise the event in Montréal. We've been furiously phoning > around to hammer out the details over the past couple of days and I'm > happy to announce that it's now official. > > The summit will occur, in Montréal, over the usual Canadian Thanksgiving > (US Columbus Day) long weekend. Book your tickets now. > > The dates are Saturday October 8 to Monday October 10. > > There was some talk about a Gtk hackfest being co-located with the > summit, but this will not happen. > > The venue for the summit is the École Polytechnique de Montréal. The > venue is well served by the Metro (station "Université-de-Montréal" on > the blue line). The hotels are very inexpensive compared to Cambridge > (many available for less than $100/night and almost nothing over $200). > > Montréal Trudeau Airport (YUL) is the natural choice for those arriving > by plane. Montréal is also about a 5 hour drive from the Boston area. > As of 2009, a passport is required for those entering Canada by car. > > Montréal is a beautiful city with a lot of history. Anyone who has some > vacation time to burn would be well-advised to stay a few days extra. > > See more information on Wikitravel: http://wikitravel.org/en/Montreal > > A big thank you to Colin Walters and to Collabora for their efforts in > Cambridge and Montréal, respectively. > > Look forward to seeing you all there! > > -- > Ryan Lortie > (on behalf of the board of directors) > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-announce mailing list > foundation-annou...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list