Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Summit update -- 1 month to go!

[Nathaniel J. Smith]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:49:30AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Nathaniel J. Smith wrote:
> > If you don't have a room to sleep in yet (has _anyone_ booked a hotel
> > room yet?), then now is also really the time!
> 
> That, I'll probably do this evening, as soon as we decide the logistics
> for the few days before the summit starts (anyway has suggestion what is
> at a reasonable distance and can't really be missed? we have 4 full days
> available for the trip before the summit starts).

Well, I'm fond of recommending the Exploratorium to people :-).  (It's
up in SF, just under the Golden Gate bridge.)  Alcatraz is touristy,
but actually pretty darn cool, too.

> > And speaking of transportation, we need 2-3 (or more) people to drive
> > everyone back and forth from the hotel everyday, and if you can be one
> > of these people, i.e., are:
> >   -- age 25 or older
> >   -- legal to drive in the US (IIUC if you are legal to drive at home
> >      you are probably legal to drive in the US)
> > then you should let me know, so we can figure out the rental stuff.
> 
> Me and Gabriele were thinking about renting a car anyway, in order to
> take a better look around the area in the first 4 days, so there would
> be no problem in doing this.
> How should we move in that direction? Will it be a centralized booking
> like the hotel or not?

Oh, good -- I was starting to get worried that we might not have any
drivers there for the whole week after all :-).  (Might still be a bit
complicated with your leaving on Sunday, but we can figure something
out.)

We needed to do the hotel bit centralized because we all wanted to be
at the same place, and because we could get better rates -- for the
cars I don't know if it matters either way.  (We _might_ be able to
negotiate for better rates, but I don't really know how rental car
companies work.)

The main thing is making sure we have enough seats to get everyone
around... AFAICT the most cost-effective thing to get are minivans,
each of which seats 7.  (You might not want to rent one just for the
two of you beforehand, though, since they're more expensive than a
car.)  So we need somewhere between 2 minivans and 3 minivans, it
looks like from the current wiki page... it would be helpful if people
with question marks next to their names figured out what they were
doing soonish, so we can figure this part out :-).

-- Nathaniel