Ignore the previous email, I just catched up and realized the location was already set. Sorry.
ng0 <[email protected]> writes: > Werner Koch <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:13, [email protected] said: >> >>> That was considered some years ago. But for PR reasons we should not hold >>> GNU >>> events at the "Linux" hotel. >> >> I would actually suggest to look for the "unperfekthaus" in the city of >> Essen. It has associated hotels in the same block, and would be the >> perfect place for a meeting of up to 80 people. It is a really cool >> place and belongs to the owner of the Villa Vogelsang (linuxhotel.de, >> about 30 minutes outside of the city). Reinhard has always been very >> supportive towards the FSFE and all kind of other Free Software >> projects. >> >> >> Shalom-Salam, >> >> Werner >> >> -- >> Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. > > As long as you don't look at one (recent) political fallout and > failed reaction of the person in charge of the unperfekthaus, > it's okay[0]. > > Connections to Essen are alright for international visitors > aswell, Düsseldorf Airport is 1 - 1.5 hours by train. > UPF is located in the middle of the city, so there's a high > chance of other hotel, hostels, couch surfing, etc being > around. I only lived in the city so I just know about hotels. > > > > [0]: sources only in german, basically: some right wing > associated group (Bürgerwehr) wanted to have weekly meetings > there, people protested, owner decided to just ignore both > (locked the unperfekthaus the day the group wanted to meet so > they couldn't get in) pretended the whole thing never happened, > later decided to publish an statement where everyone who isn't > harcore neutral was called extremist and taking positions would > be a very bad thing and ruins democracy. something along those > lines. So, insults for me, but for an event I could just ignore > this happened. > -- > ♥Ⓐ ng0 | ng0.chaosnet.org -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 | ng0.chaosnet.org
