Re: GPE Developers' Meeting

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:06, Nils Faerber wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2003 12:50:47 +0000
> Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> > So, I tentatively propose that we hold a developer's meeting here in
> > Cambridge on the weekend of March 22-23. We should be able to book a
> > conference room in one of the colleges for the duration.
>
> It seems that there has been an agreement on time/date and location. So
> in order to be to book flights early the question is if the location is
> confirmed? Moray?

There's no problem with getting a conference room, but I'm still waiting
to hear back from people about getting a room with a nice network
connection into it. (Anyway, in case of disaster Phil has volunteered a
backup venue.)

I'd encourage people to arrange flights now.

As Alan said, Stansted is good for cheap flights; it's also only half an
hour from Cambridge by train.

> Next question is, after looking at the flight tables it seems to me that
> at least for us it would make sense to come on friday, i.e. 21st, and
> leave on monday morning. This would give us maximum time on the weekend.
> But this also means that we would need a place to stay for three nights.

http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/leisure/accommodation/accommodation.html has
listings of places to stay in Cambridge. Other things linked from
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambarea/ might also be useful. Please (everyone)
send me an email if there's any 'tourist information' you need.

I'm based at Darwin College, and it's a fairly likely venue -
http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1618;yy=1153;mt=c
- but nowhere in central Cambridge is very far from anywhere else.

-- 
Moray