On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:05:52PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > The two big questions: > Where? > Preferably somewhere with a high density of debian developers. > The California Bay Area (20 some developers with many more > nearby) and the Netherlands come to mind. We'd need a map of > where people live to make an informed choice. > How much $$ would it take, and where's that come from? > I'm figuring around $700 per developer, for plane fare and > lodging. If 250 attend that's $175k. Plus some unkown amount > to rent out a convention center. Asking briefly at a travel agent, it's about $AUS 2000 for return air fares from Australia to either LA or .nl. That's not including any bulk, student, whatever discounts we might be able to scrounge together. That's about $US 1300, I guess. So assuming we can get free/very cheap accomodation, and find somewhere where half the developers don't have to pay anything to get to, that looks vaguely plausible. I wonder if 100 people might be a more realistic size. Splitting it on a continental basis might be interesting too, although doesn't seem like it'd be as exotic and fun... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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