The point of the NPR story was that while "The city was forced to cancel an estimated $3.5 billion worth of events" the hotel / convention / entertainment infrastructure all escaped relatively intact and is (or will soon be) ready to go back to work. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.?storyId=4950554>
---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Chris Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You may have a point here. I am sure that the VA would let us > have the first floor of their building near the dome. It is just > all of those extension cords to being in our own power and the 100 > miles of CAT 5 cable that would be required that might be a problem. > New Orleans will be the land of deals for a while. > > But it would be an interesting and bold statement none the less. It might also be a way to find a venue with maximum willingness to be flexible with size of group, ability to accomadate us in a single hotel, etc. By the end of January we should have no problem with things like communications. jlz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
