On Jul 27, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Gary Poster wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Brad Crittenden wrote: > >> >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 17:16 , Graham Binns wrote: >> >>> On 26 July 2011 21:36, Gary Poster <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I expect it would be noticeably cheaper to rent the hotel and drive to the >>>> beach, so maybe we could really sell it…well, I'm still skeptical. >>> >>> We'd be noticeably more productive, too, I suspect (when we did mini >>> Bugs sprints in Norwich - to accomodate Gavin's family commitments - >>> (I felt that) we consistently got more done than in the bigger, >>> holed-up-in-Vilnius-in-February sprints. YMMV). >>> >>> I appreciate his point, but I'm tempted to argue that we're better >>> doing requirements elicitation on an as-you-need-it basis rather than >>> hanging around at the Lexington office all the time. >>> >>> Also, wouldn't it be cheaper just to fly Danilo and I over to >>> Raleigh-Durham and have the three of you use whatever means of >>> transport necessary to get to the sprint location than fly us all up >>> to Boston for a week? >> >> Well RDU-BOS round trip is currently $185. Driving from Raleigh to Nags >> Head round trip is 450 miles * $0.51 = $229.50. So, let's not make that >> argument! > > $229.50 / 2.5 (two cars with two or three people each) == 91.80. If we > squish together, $229.50/5 == $45.90. :-)
Over lunch I thought that the math would be more complicated, and did some, but in sum, I agree that transportation money is not a strong argument. I think we could argue that, if Benji drove separately from F'burg and Brad and I carpooled with Danilo and Graham, it would come out to an average of $153 for the three Americans, if you don't add any of the driving cost to the Europeans. Hotel would be a somewhat better argument: six nights of individual hotel rooms for five people @ $150/night = $4500. We could probably share a pretty nice beach house at that time of year, each with our own room, for half that. <shrug> Gary -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yellow Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yellow More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
