Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
And as an added bonus... Erik will be in his time zone. So if anyone wants to work out ride-share or car rental details with him he won't (most likely) show up a day before. have faith! i could also get the switch back to dst wrong. - erik
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:13 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: i have offered to host this year in athens, ga, home of many things, including coraid, inc. and the univeristy of georga. there should be plenty of accomidations. we are about 40 minutes outside atlanta, ga so it's pretty easy to get to — at least from the airport. And as an added bonus... Erik will be in his time zone. So if anyone wants to work out ride-share or car rental details with him he won't (most likely) show up a day before. -jas
[9fans] IWP9 this year?
Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd like to get the ball rolling on this, in case anybody is interested in setting it up or attending. I think the question at this point is, ``Who wants to organize it, and who will attend?'' I'm perfectly fine to organize the event, and I'm sure my office could more than accommodate any interested attendees. Just kind of curious what timeframes people would be interested in, and whether people would be able / willing to come. If not, some discussion on the when and where might not be a bad idea, anyway. Let me know! --Devon
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
On Fri Apr 24 09:56:24 EDT 2009, devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd like to get the ball rolling on this, in case anybody is interested in setting it up or attending. I think the question at this point is, ``Who wants to organize it, and who will attend?'' I'm perfectly fine to organize the event, and I'm sure my office could more than accommodate any interested attendees. Just kind of curious what timeframes people would be interested in, and whether people would be able / willing to come. If not, some discussion on the when and where might not be a bad idea, anyway. Let me know! --Devon i have offered to host this year in athens, ga, home of many things, including coraid, inc. and the univeristy of georga. there should be plenty of accomidations. we are about 40 minutes outside atlanta, ga so it's pretty easy to get to — at least from the airport. i was thinking about 22-24 october 2009. there was some discussion of changing the format to include some workshop this year. i would like to do that, but it's not clear to me what the format should be. i would imagine the workshop would start a few days before the 22 with prep taking place throughout the summer. since many of the likely workshop participants are doing gsoc, perhaps the workshop can be some hands-on with the summer's work and we can expect papers from them, too as well as the usual suspects. :-) if we can agree on that, i'd enjoy doing it. - erik
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
There were some ideas of skipping this year and making the next IWP9 in the beginning of the next year. End of the year is a difficult time for travel, the budgets for travel are depleted, or not if the fiscal year starts earlier than the calendar one, not defined well enough. Lucho On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Devon H. O'Dell devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd like to get the ball rolling on this, in case anybody is interested in setting it up or attending. I think the question at this point is, ``Who wants to organize it, and who will attend?'' I'm perfectly fine to organize the event, and I'm sure my office could more than accommodate any interested attendees. Just kind of curious what timeframes people would be interested in, and whether people would be able / willing to come. If not, some discussion on the when and where might not be a bad idea, anyway. Let me know! --Devon
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
2009/4/24 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: On Fri Apr 24 09:56:24 EDT 2009, devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd like to get the ball rolling on this, in case anybody is interested in setting it up or attending. I think the question at this point is, ``Who wants to organize it, and who will attend?'' I'm perfectly fine to organize the event, and I'm sure my office could more than accommodate any interested attendees. Just kind of curious what timeframes people would be interested in, and whether people would be able / willing to come. If not, some discussion on the when and where might not be a bad idea, anyway. Let me know! --Devon i have offered to host this year in athens, ga, home of many things, including coraid, inc. and the univeristy of georga. there should be plenty of accomidations. we are about 40 minutes outside atlanta, ga so it's pretty easy to get to — at least from the airport. Ok, I hadn't seen that. Similarly, I'm in Columbia, MD, which is about 15 minutes from both BWI and Reagan Int'l airports (Dulles is a bit of a hike; perhaps more towards 40 minutes), and there are many Amtrak stations around. Home of Message Systems (where I work, though we don't do anything interesting with Plan 9 except listen to me proselytize it), and a short distance away from the ``Nation's best Crab'' (I think that's what Baltimore is calling it) and Capitol. i was thinking about 22-24 october 2009. there was some discussion of changing the format to include some workshop this year. i would like to do that, but it's not clear to me what the format should be. i would imagine the workshop would start a few days before the 22 with prep taking place throughout the summer. since many of the likely workshop participants are doing gsoc, perhaps the workshop can be some hands-on with the summer's work and we can expect papers from them, too as well as the usual suspects. :-) if we can agree on that, i'd enjoy doing it. I like that format; I was thinking it would be good to see some of these projects have presentations as well. Additionally, October is sufficiently far in the future that it should work out rather well. I could probably make it down to ATL; would probably only be a 3-or-so hour flight. If you need any help with planning / logistics, that's fine. If people would rather do it here, that's fine. If nobody needs me to do anything, that's fine too, just trying to get the ball rolling :) - erik --dho
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? Speaking personally, early March tends to be bad because of potential overlap with children's spring breaks. (Similarly, late October tends to be bad because it overlaps with both my wedding anniversary and my wife's birthday -- and while she was a good shelia and shared our honeymoon with IWP9 Madrid, I don't think I can pull many more favors on that scale again ;) -eric
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? Speaking personally, early March tends to be bad because of potential overlap with children's spring breaks. (Similarly, late October tends to be bad because it overlaps with both my wedding anniversary and my wife's birthday -- and while she was a good shelia and shared our honeymoon with IWP9 Madrid, I don't think I can pull that many more favors). I am willing to host here in Austin, TX -- we have a classroom that seats somewhere between 50-75 that I can use, although getting everybody through security can be a bit of a pain. Downside is that Austin doesn't tend to be an international hub, so its more of a pain to get to flight wise -- doesn't seem we have any lack of volunteers to host this year anyways, but I figured I'd put it out there for the future. -eric
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
As I live near Atlanta, I wouldn't mind the Athens venue. Since I'm more-or-less local, I could pitch in to help with logistics. -joe On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? My 1¢ worth (the economy has devalued it from 2¢) is that the time doesn't matter so much for me, since it would probably be on my dime. But Atlanta is a much more feasable trip for me as it's driving distance, and my daughter's college fund would much prefer that over flying. BLS
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
The good thing about atlanta: major international airport, minimizes traveling to the IWP9 locale. I think that should be a consideration for location. I am sure Greece was wonderful but it was pretty much impossible for me to get to the last IWP9. ron
Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?
What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? My 1¢ worth (the economy has devalued it from 2¢) is that the time doesn't matter so much for me, since it would probably be on my dime. But Atlanta is a much more feasable trip for me as it's driving distance, and my daughter's college fund would much prefer that over flying. BLS
