RE: [RFC] holding a mod_perl conference

[Jeff D. 'Spud (Zeppelin)' Almeida]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Leon Brocard wrote:

> Throwing another idea into the works, I'm currently exploring
> ideas for a potential yapc::Europe in London this September.

Interesting.  I'm sure my wife would be *thrilled* for me to take her with
me on that sort of trip, she's been hounding me to take her to England for
the last couple years :)
 
> I'm currently stuck on venues - I *was* gonna hold it at
> Imperial College (conference fees on the order of single-figure
> dollar ammounts), but talks have kind of dried up.

I'm about as qualified to discuss conference facilities in England as I am
to discuss CP/M kernel internals, so I'm going to pass on this topic...

> Where are all you mod_perl guys? Would you be willing to come
> over to the UK?

I've already said I would (and you can see where I am at present below)...
OTOH, a couple days ago Randal posted about NOT being able to leave the
US.  I'm also not sure how a conference in England would affect our
friends on the West Coast... I can hop a flight from Boston or New York to
London for <$300 (assuming I get a sale), it's closer to $1000 from San
Francisco or Seattle (or it least, it was when I used to live out West).

Of course, I also said (last week) that (and I still feel this way) the
best solution for a mod_perl (or Apache::ScriptCon now?) conference is
somewhere in/near the Valley -- and that that should be a static location.
>From personal experience (granted, this was eight years ago), I can say
that the Hyatt Regency Bayshore, while a reasonably expensive facility,
has beautiful conference facilities and is *VERY* convenient to SFO (as if
SFO was particularly convenient in-and-of-itself?).  

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Jeff D. "Spud (Zeppelin)" Almeida
Windsor, CT
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