Lol, the fancier hotels are *out* of town. :) There are a few fancy ones in
town, especially around the international conference centre (CTICC), but
they're so uppity I can't stand them. Don't think they're value for money
either, the CTICC isn't.
My favourite fancy hotel is in Newlands, walking
Hi Gunnar
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote:
Hi Bernelle,
That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public
transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or
share
private taxis back.
This brings another questions:
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:46:42PM +0200, Bernelle Verster wrote:
[...]
I am wondering if we should also consider trying to get a deal with rental
car companies, and doing some sort of 'internal Uber', where the people who
really want to, can rent a car as long as they offer trips to
On 27/01/2015 13:41, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
Having a dedicated SSID with a password is much preferred to having to
enter some username/password in a web form.
It wouldn't be in a web form. We use WPA EAP, so it would be set up
when first connecting to the network.
On 27/01/15 12:34 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote:
Hi Montreal team,
Hi!
I visited the building yesterday to re-check the space being proposed.
Wow, that is nice. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
There was an event going on and I figured out that the rooms 202 and 203
Hi Philipp (2015.01.27_20:49:36_+0200)
Food:
* 33 USD/day (current quote, on the higher side according to local team)
Accomodation:
* Hotels: 50USD/double room/night
* Dorms: 20USD/p/night
Venue:
* Upper Campus: free
* Breakwater: ?
From
Hi,
So far I found the following information about our main cost factors
(venue, food, accommodation)
Do these like look correct? Can you provide better estimates?
Montreal
Food: ?
Accomodation:
* Hotels: 60-130USD/double (only few rooms at cheap rates)
* Dorms: from 53 CAD= 42 USD p.P
Venue:
*
Philipp Hug dijo [Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 06:49:36PM +]:
Hi,
So far I found the following information about our main cost factors
(venue, food, accommodation)
Do these like look correct? Can you provide better estimates?
Assuming the costs are correct, I think the following numbers are
Hi All
On 01/17/2015 09:49 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
I don't think it's good to have per-user logins managed by the
university; can we get confirmation that setting up our own eduroam
realm would be OK?
Even better if we could establish our own SSID on their infrastructure.
I met with
Hello,
Hi! This is Montreal's answer! Sorry for the brevity, we're in a hurry for the
meeting :)
My questions, in very short format:
Late arrival: do the accommodation (for venues) allow very late arrivals?
Hmm, hard question. We would rent a whole residence, so I don't see why not.
Dear all,
can you add yourself to our team list[1] please?
I am not copying people over from old threads on purpose to gauge
reaction to some extent.
As you probably know, work on Summit is ongoing with cate and edrz
expecting to finish work soon(tm). That will allow us, i.e. the
content team,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:16 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org
wrote:
also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org [2015-01-27 15:05
+0100]:
That sounds a good idea. Interested people would definitely be
able to organize shifts in the wikipage once we have some cars
available.
also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org [2015-01-27 15:05 +0100]:
That sounds a good idea. Interested people would definitely be
able to organize shifts in the wikipage once we have some cars
available. This has happened with private attendees cars in the
past.
I am afraid no global
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:16:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org [2015-01-27 15:05 +0100]:
That sounds a good idea. Interested people would definitely be
able to organize shifts in the wikipage once we have some cars
available. This has
Bernelle,
On 27/01/15 11:01, Bernelle Verster wrote:
Right, but I worry more about the daily trips that attendees will make.
It would be silly to stay in town and commute daily to the debconf
venue, in my opinion... We are only considering venues with very close
accommodation.
I did
also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org [2015-01-27 15:26 +0100]:
Hmm, right. Or maybe having some generous local car owners who
would be comfortable sharing theirs :)
Or an affordable deal with the student-run shuttle service and some
rules around it. We all know how ATM works ;)
--
Cate asked:
Late arrival: do the accommodation (for venues) allow very late arrivals?
So, for Cape Town:
We haven't figured out all the details of registration, yet. But there
should be no difficulty with this. We'll be the only people using the
residence hall that we're accommodating attendees
Hi Stefano,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
Cate asked:
Late arrival: do the accommodation (for venues) allow very late arrivals?
So, for Cape Town:
We haven't figured out all the details of registration, yet. But there
should be no difficulty with this.
also sprach Martín Ferrari tin...@debian.org [2015-01-27 11:53 +0100]:
We did obtain quotes for 'dinner shuttles' - 14 seater buses to be used
ad hoc, see
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town/Potential_Venues#Transport_jottings
Right, but I worry more about the daily
Bernelle,
On 27/01/15 10:38, Bernelle Verster wrote:
That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public
transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or
share private taxis back.
Do you know how much would be the cost of a taxi at night to get from
On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 11:34:47 Graham Inggs gra...@nerve.org.za wrote:
They could give us our own SSID, but he didn't seem to think it would
be necessary.
Having a dedicated SSID with a password is much preferred to having to
enter some username/password in a web form.
This was quite painful
Hi Bernelle,
On 26/01/15 17:38, Bernelle Verster wrote:
https://www.uct.ac.za/students/services/jammie/maps/vac/
The one to town is to the Hiddingh campus.
This is currently the holiday schedule until 31 January so gives you a
good idea of off peak times.
If I read correctly, this means
Hi Richard
That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public
transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or share
private taxis back.
We did obtain quotes for 'dinner shuttles' - 14 seater buses to be used ad
hoc, see
Martin,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Martín Ferrari tin...@debian.org wrote:
Bernelle,
On 27/01/15 10:38, Bernelle Verster wrote:
That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public
transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or
share private
Hi Pollo,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
Do you mean without hacklabs during Debconf, or these 3 rooms + the hacklabs
during Debconf?
If you meant the latter, this means we would not have to rent the Club Lounge
and Room B-30. From the prices I
Hi Martín (2015.01.27_17:14:51_+0200)
I meant that many people like to go exploring after the talks are over,
maybe to sample the local beer production, or to have dinner in a nice
restaurant, etc.
There are many options in town, but as Bernelle said, also scattered all
over the rest of the
Hello,
My questions, in very short format:
Late arrival: do the accommodation (for venues) allow very late arrivals?
Do we have a 24h hacklab?
What about dressing standards e.g. barefoot, shirtless at venue?
Age restrictions (without parents) in venues? in bar/restaurants?
[18 is IMHO enough,
Hi Bernelle,
That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public
transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or share
private taxis back.
This brings another questions: If walking after dark is dangerous, and
people don't take public transport either
Hi again, Bernelle :)
We did obtain quotes for 'dinner shuttles' - 14 seater buses to be used
ad hoc, see
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town/Potential_Venues#Transport_jottings
Right, but I worry more about the daily trips that attendees will make.
It would
Hi Montreal team,
I visited the building yesterday to re-check the space being proposed.
There was an event going on and I figured out that the rooms 202 and 203
(MadeleineParent+LevBukhman) can be joined. The combined room would be able to
handle 150 people, which is a good thing for us. So
Hi Gunnar (2015.01.27_15:28:26_+0200)
This brings another questions: If walking after dark is dangerous, and
people don't take public transport either after dark, how safe are
taxis? For context: Many people in my country (Mexico) rely on having
the phone number of a known taxi base, as they
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